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Quoting Olarion1975
I scalp for a living - I trade 50-100 times in 2-5 hours. Always 2 positions at once. That makes 250-500 trades per week.
Wow that is intense, lots of trades in 2-5 hours!
1-3 times a week depending on the market and work. 2-3 positions at one time.
2-3 per week. But sometimes every day. Depends on news, economy situations.
Depending on the opportunities what i see on the chart - sometimes opportunity arise on the hourly, 4h, daily, weekly, or monthly time frames. So take chances at whichever it is
Overbought + Oversold + Correction + Indicators = Are Not Equal
My trading activity can be intense in some days/weeks depending on what I perceive to be the number of potentially predictable profitable opportunities. In other cases, the market is just too volatile for me and as such I decide to stay on the sidelines for a while, but generally, I never go a week without completing at least one trade, and in some days, I can complete as many as five trades.
Quoting lain.relluf
how many trades do u take in a week?
I normally trade after any volatile news because it takes very little time to stay in the market and the
take profit gets hit quickly. My favorite news is the Non Farm PayRoll and if any country changes its
Interest rates.

Other good news to trade are the US Durable Goods Orders, Retail Sales, FOMC Statements,
most of the Australian News are also very good money makers.

The only problem one will face is the Spread widening by the Brokers.
But there are ways to avoid that.

John
Winning is a Great Feeling!
it really depends on the type of trading you you do. scalpers take lots of trades on a weekly basis. but i do swings and positions on hotforex and thats roughly about 5-10 trades a week, but i do check the charts daily.
Quoting Olarion1975
I scalp for a living - I trade 50-100 times in 2-5 hours. Always 2 positions at once. That makes 250-500 trades per week.
I know your comment was from a couple weeks ago, so you may not see my reply now. Anyway, I scalp too, though not as actively as you do... but I'm wondering about your "always 2 positions at once" point. I SOMETIMES have 2 or 3 positions open at once, but I don't make any effort to do that... usually just one. So I'm wondering if you have a specific reason for your 2-at-a-time rule.
I average 8 trades per week but only one runs for the entire week or 2. The rest lasts for just 1 day which are mainly from retracements and corrections of the main trade that I have for the week.
Quoting Jero6sigma
It really depend on the market situation and also my own situation. I don't set any quota of how many I need to trade per week or per month. I just trade when I see oportunity coming and I will only trade when I have enough time to observe the price movement. *More trade doesn't mean more profit. Jerome
I am the same way. Whenever I see a setup according to my strategies that I employ, I trade. Sometimes that means multiple trades a day, sometimes that means no trades at all during the day. Just really depends on the strategies that you use and what you see.
For me this is a tricky question because I usually get caught up in looking for the perfect opportunity and miss chances because of that. I must admit I'm overly risk averse and that's why I end up trading much less than I initially planned to. Basically instead of talking myself into trading I talk myself out of it and I don't know if that's a good strategy on the long run if you want to become a trader
I trade when I have time, because I am not trading all day. As a rule it is three hours in the evening and some analyze work on weekends.
Quoting Olarion1975
I scalp for a living - I trade 50-100 times in 2-5 hours. Always 2 positions at once. That makes 250-500 trades per week.
same as yours..
been so distracted this week the ave or trades is going down, looking at past couple of weeks im ave abour 3-4 trades a week. man its not easy trading with distractions, one thing i learned is time management.
I've traded for about a half of year and trade 3-4 times a week. I don't trade on Friday and very often on Monday.
i trade for a living
average 30-60 trade per week (average 240 trade per month)
with average 1.200 pips per week (average 4.800 pips per moth)
i dont trade on news time

at least, its constant for 5 years back
Quoting brekz1
i trade for a living average 30-60 trade per week (average 240 trade per month) with average 1.200 pips per week (average 4.800 pips per moth) i dont trade on news time at least, its constant for 5 years back

Wow, is it always that consistant?
I'm curious about something, news time here means what? How about trading balance and retails sales form japan?
Quoting 0200
{quote} Wow, is it always that consistant? I'm curious about something, news time here means what? How about trading balance and retails sales form japan?
yes always that consistant,

news time means high impact news

i dont trade tokyo market

and not using trading balance
Quoting Olarion1975
I scalp for a living - I trade 50-100 times in 2-5 hours. Always 2 positions at once. That makes 250-500 trades per week.
Wow that is redic. Do you trade strictly forex? Im guessing on the volume of trades that you scalp the 1 min charts?
All depends if the market is kind or not.. usually 3-4 times a week on average.
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