any time, i just happened to be checking my mail etc. during big USD news
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Dislikedhey f4mnect! glad to see you working this journal. it is a real help to traders the way you and others share info here on FF. I just wanted to ask you a few things about your trading. I am trying to lock down what works for me but wanted to know how you actually traded.
1. what times do you start trading and for how long do you trade for?
2. Do you sit and watch the markets or do you have some kind of alert to let you know a trade is imminent?
3. I notice that robin takes trades with the CCI being over 100 or under -100 which seems to filter out...Ignored
DislikedI'm looking to improve my trading times. right now I am getting up 1 hour before london open and trading for about 4 hours. then a nap and back around the us market open. But I'm going to start looking over charts and see if I can find better trading times. I'm thinking a 1 hour to 2 hour window around jpy open, same around london open and us open.
I sit and watch the market, alerts are a bar late and not very good I feel, you can't just blindly jump into a trade when say you get a cci cross of the zero line. There's more to a entry and which...Ignored
Dislikedhey f4, thanks a lot for the answers. they were quite insightful. My biggest concern would be when to actually trade and I figured london open and US open would be the best to trade as there seems to be the most liquidity at those times. problem is though that I dont think I could go to bed after trading london hours and wake up for US open. if i sleep too little i get headaches haha. maybe trade late london times while still in the london/us overlap (10am - 12pm EST).
Another thing, when trading the london open, you just trade 2 pairs? or is it...Ignored