How to profit off Stop-Hunting?

Ok I'm trying to figure out how to profit off stop hunting.

sofar I have found to enter 15pips above/below the .00 levels in the direction of the current trend.

I was wondering how much time I should avoid news breaks with? 30mins pre/post news or 1h?

Also has anyone else had success with this? If so please elaborate. Thanks!

anyone?

I think something like this would be the best way to trade. If you could spot the actions of the people with big money and exploit it.
But at the end of the day, who knows when the big money is going to decide to do something? only them? I think so.

Good luck and trading.

Leon

Yea thats what I'm trying to determine

It seems like news shouldn't even affect this trading style, unless the spread gets to be a crazy amount and then you are screwed anyway


anyone have anymore info on this?

Maybe this can be helpful:

http://www.forexfactory.com/showthread.php?t=6379

that was a little but not much

Hi Maverick731,

I find that stop hunting gives you another opportunity to get in with the trend, just like retracements.

What you use totally depends on you and your style of trading.

If you are a person who trades with fundamentals or indicators then you will be required to develope a system that is based upon those.

I trade both position and scalping, on position you can use either fundamentals or indicators, whatever you use depends on you and your style, I tend to use indicators more than fundamentals.

With scalping I use indicators only and generally only trade with the trend in the time frames that I use.

There are plenty of threads on FF that you can go through, research and play with them and see what you tend to gravitate too.

cheers

Try this one, and here's another good one.

source: http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~lharris/papers.htm

Maverick, try here
You might be able to develop JohnW's concept further to suit your own ends.

Good luck,
David

Thanks guys,

I've read that zero sum pdf before, dunno where I found it, probably here.

A

You might find this article interesting:

http://www.investopedia.com/articles...topHunting.asp

Here's an excerpt:

"....Taking Advantage of the Hunt
The "stop hunting with the big specs" is an exceedingly simple setup, requiring nothing more than a price chart and one indicator. Here is the setup in a nutshell: On a one-hour chart, mark lines 15 points of either side of the round number. For example, if the EUR/USD is approaching the 1.2500 figure, the trader would mark off 1.2485 and 1.2515 on the chart. This 30-point area is known as the "trade zone", much like the 20-yard line on the football field is known as the "redzone". Both names communicate the same idea - namely that the participants have a high probability of scoring once they enter that area......"