... Because his father keeps putting his hands in front of the 1 minute chart and 'close trade' button? 
*aaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!* That happened to me yesterday...
I sought to scalp a few pips on the EUR/USD when it broke above the 2150, and when I go to scalping mode, my mind locks out the rest of the world. Only me and my charts. Anybody can talk to me, but I'm not there...
My father (who hasn't done any courses, any trades nor has any FX experience
) lately insists on giving his 'insights', which only help to make me insecure, BTW, and selected to do so while I just entered the long trade.
I use MT4, and have my 1 min chart on the left-most monitor, and leftmost-bottom is where I have my trade window. This because I use the 1 min and pip charts (in the trade window) to fine-tune the entry/exit once I selected my trade on 1d-1h-15m-5m (in that order)
My father kept putting his hands in front of the trading window in order to point out some uninteresting Ehlers CoG cross on the 1 minute, and as some barrier was putting up quite a fight at that moment, I wanted to get out quickly, but in the positive, preferrably.
Well I couldn't because I could see neither the pip chart nor the close button, and ended up -2 pips!
Very frustrating! I get down when I lose a trade because of my own trading decisions, I get pissed when somebody else screws it up for me. Luckily it was near end of day, so I could just turn off the screens and go home, before it had a chance to get ugly...
(And I know that I could have told him to keep his hands away, but when I am *actively* trading, (not just tracking) my mind is completely focused on that, and somehow that thought just didn't cross my mind!)
Sorry for the rant, but I needed to vent it somewhere before I explode!
*aaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!* That happened to me yesterday...
I sought to scalp a few pips on the EUR/USD when it broke above the 2150, and when I go to scalping mode, my mind locks out the rest of the world. Only me and my charts. Anybody can talk to me, but I'm not there...
My father (who hasn't done any courses, any trades nor has any FX experience
) lately insists on giving his 'insights', which only help to make me insecure, BTW, and selected to do so while I just entered the long trade. I use MT4, and have my 1 min chart on the left-most monitor, and leftmost-bottom is where I have my trade window. This because I use the 1 min and pip charts (in the trade window) to fine-tune the entry/exit once I selected my trade on 1d-1h-15m-5m (in that order)
My father kept putting his hands in front of the trading window in order to point out some uninteresting Ehlers CoG cross on the 1 minute, and as some barrier was putting up quite a fight at that moment, I wanted to get out quickly, but in the positive, preferrably.
Well I couldn't because I could see neither the pip chart nor the close button, and ended up -2 pips!
Very frustrating! I get down when I lose a trade because of my own trading decisions, I get pissed when somebody else screws it up for me. Luckily it was near end of day, so I could just turn off the screens and go home, before it had a chance to get ugly...
(And I know that I could have told him to keep his hands away, but when I am *actively* trading, (not just tracking) my mind is completely focused on that, and somehow that thought just didn't cross my mind!)
Sorry for the rant, but I needed to vent it somewhere before I explode!
I never lost the 0.1 PIP 
