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  • #68,481
  • Mar 29, 2012 12:19am Mar 29, 2012 12:19am
bbl..
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  • #68,482
  • Mar 29, 2012 12:22am Mar 29, 2012 12:22am
Quoting attila
I actually think the best way is to enter a trade AFTER a level was broken, in the opposite direction..
The best way to enter a trade (not that it happens so often that it would allow you to trend only this formation) is after a level is broken and retested from the other side - thatīs a no brainer.
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  • #68,483
  • Mar 29, 2012 12:22am Mar 29, 2012 12:22am
Quoting FXMastermind
Feck me, you have that much trouble in your country for speeding?! Bloody hell.

I actually drive quite often 250-300 kmh, just for the fun of it (I love speed...) and because my car allows me to do it, but when I get caught (and it happened only once, our policemen are lazy bums), all I got was a ticket worth 100 bucks...

Good luck, mate!
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  • #68,484
  • Mar 29, 2012 12:32am Mar 29, 2012 12:32am
Quoting Venice
Oh yeah, without a doubt. That is just the concept behind it.

I think lately, the problem is, they dump the orders in then cut and run. So by the time price comes back to it, they have already switched directions again.

It use to be once they established a direction, there wasn't much deviance to that direction. Now it just steam rolls both ways, or gets stuck in one area for days on ends.
Well, VIX is actually at the lowest levels since 2008 so we donīt have really that much volatility these days.

The problem in my eyes is that we experience much lower volume, which enables even "smaller" amounts of money to effectively manipulate the market during dead hours (e.g. late Asia, early Europe).

Remember that spike to the upside on Friday in EU? After those horrible manufacturing numbers on Thursday, when EU got beaten badly? It made like 80 pips during Frankie only and all of that because of some speculative move of some Russian and Chinese guys, with help of stops being triggered, of course...

Thatīs why I trade strictly London + overlap mostly, the volume is usually sufficient enough to effectively mitigate such one-sided attempts to drive the market. We have difficult market these days, no doubt, but thatīs becaue there is so much uncertainty that every fart of every stupid EU official might move it one way or another.

Thatīs largely why I donīt rely on anything else than my newsfeed and what I see PA doing in front of me at the very moment and why I trade largely small TFs - you canīt rely that much on bigger ones as you used to...

...my 2c
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  • #68,485
  • Mar 29, 2012 12:38am Mar 29, 2012 12:38am
Quoting darimik
it was because he was over the limit on alcohol..
Oh I see...Yeah, that gets you into serious trouble here as well...

I NEVER drive my car when drinking though, one of the rules I never break...
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  • #68,486
  • Mar 29, 2012 12:41am Mar 29, 2012 12:41am
Quoting fxjawn
yea i use the 50 and the 200ema and my glorious charm...


i like the emas for profit targets, stops as well
Moving averages are actually one of the finest tools, they are old and people tend to rely more on the shiny new ones with plenty of colours, arrows and twenty lines in it, but they are still the best to tell you a few simple facts about the PA your brain canīt compute (at least not as quickly )
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  • #68,487
  • Mar 29, 2012 12:43am Mar 29, 2012 12:43am
Quoting FXMastermind
Moving averages are actually one of the finest tools, they are old and people tend to rely more on the shiny new ones with plenty of colours, arrows and twenty lines in it, but they are still the best to tell you a few simple facts about the PA your brain canīt compute (at least not as quickly )
institutions use the ema's u can tell by the way pa reacts to them so if they are using them so do i....

the shiny ones are like listening to cnbc for stock pics... you rely on indicators your late to the fuckin party
  • #68,488
  • Mar 29, 2012 12:44am Mar 29, 2012 12:44am
Quoting fxjawn
hmmm i may take another look then...
Bummer, PTL the Market Manipulator went short?! Better to start looking for a place to cover my 3285 long then...Not really feeling like standing in the way of the Fabulous Steamroller.

I had it set for 40 overnight but that was obviously too far for Asia

Me thinks I might drop it @30, just not to provoke the God of Mids, whoīs probably laying a cable right now.
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  • #68,489
  • Mar 29, 2012 12:45am Mar 29, 2012 12:45am
Quoting fxjawn
institutions use the ema's u can tell by the way pa reacts to them so if they are using them so do i....

the shiny ones are like listening to cnbc for stock pics... you rely on indicators your late to the fuckin party
You are bloody right, mate, I always used CNBC rather as a contraindicator
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  • #68,490
  • Mar 29, 2012 12:50am Mar 29, 2012 12:50am
Quoting FXMastermind
You are bloody right, mate, I always used CNBC rather as a contraindicator
the euro thread is pretty good for that too if your lazy bro lol
  • #68,491
  • Mar 29, 2012 12:54am Mar 29, 2012 12:54am
Quoting fxjawn
the euro thread is pretty good for that too if your lazy bro lol


I was seriously thinking of hiring one of the guys there (nick is Incrediblle) to tell me whenever he wants to enter a trade and I would do the exact opposite (broker style...). Operation "Cannot possibly fail", so to speak.

Boy, he was incredibl(l)y useless...

EDIT: Btw, message received, mate, I will go through it later in the afternoon, now I have to do my pre-market analysis...
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  • #68,492
  • Mar 29, 2012 1:11am Mar 29, 2012 1:11am
Ok, covered my EU long @30 for 45 green ones, now flat across the board, PTL is free to do his dirty business (not THE one, the other one )
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  • #68,493
  • Mar 29, 2012 1:13am Mar 29, 2012 1:13am
Quoting FXMastermind
Ok, covered my EU long @30 for 45 green ones, now flat across the board, PTL is free to do his dirty business (not THE one, the other one )
and his business will be dirty trust me...

whats your background bro...?
  • #68,494
  • Mar 29, 2012 1:18am Mar 29, 2012 1:18am
Quoting FXMastermind
Ok, covered my EU long @30 for 45 green ones, now flat across the board, PTL is free to do his dirty business (not THE one, the other one )
now its exploding topside... pussy!!!! lolol

joking man
  • #68,495
  • Mar 29, 2012 1:21am Mar 29, 2012 1:21am
Quoting FXMastermind
Ok, covered my EU long @30 for 45 green ones, now flat across the board, PTL is free to do his dirty business (not THE one, the other one )
You stupid bum, you could have waited those extra 10 minutes to get 10 pips more as originally planned...
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  • #68,496
  • Mar 29, 2012 1:22am Mar 29, 2012 1:22am
Quoting FXMastermind
You stupid bum, you could have waited those extra 10 minutes to get 10 pips more as originally planned...
FUCKIN PTL i swear
  • #68,497
  • Mar 29, 2012 1:22am Mar 29, 2012 1:22am
Quoting fxjawn
now its exploding topside... pussy!!!! lolol

joking man
Thatīs what I am, no kidding...

...got scared of PTLs cable again...
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  • #68,498
  • Mar 29, 2012 1:24am Mar 29, 2012 1:24am
Quoting fxjawn
FUCKIN PTL i swear
Amen, bro...Heīs the one to blame here! I am sure he was secretly long all the time and pretended short to make me ejaculate prematurely from my position so more money is left for him...

cunning bastard.
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  • #68,499
  • Mar 29, 2012 1:24am Mar 29, 2012 1:24am
Quoting FXMastermind
Thatīs what I am, no kidding...

...got scared of PTLs cable again...
i swear this a typical ptl head fake... he is out tweeting to the pits that greece won the lottery and its saved... meanwhile he is fading like a whore
  • #68,500
  • Mar 29, 2012 1:24am Mar 29, 2012 1:24am
morning,

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