How often do u trade?

around 6 trades a months if i found Great Price action, i usually risk up to 5% of my BR per trades

Wow! Very active. Great!
I usually have 3-5 a week.

More trades don't mean more gain

I totally agree with you. Sometimes even more losses than profits

True, but more trades usually means shorter trades which results in less exposure to unforeseen strong market movements.

I have around 20-40 trades a week, each ranging from a few minutes to around 15 minutes (on average).

but I have the opposite. In short transactions I have arrived more. The long transactions usually does not carry. I think that the better that is not very much, but it certainly will be earnings

I trade very less per month. As I trade mostly on daily time frame so waiting for a good setup requires time. My trades are from 4 to 8 per month.

That's what I also think.
I like slow strategy, where you make profit in a long run by having not so many trades.

I'm kind of the opposite: I prefer to do a larger number of smaller trades, to spread the risk and maximise the probability of my edge being exerted with a smoother equity-curve. (I've always looked at trading in terms of risk management rather than profit maximisation.)

I do nearly 100 trades per month, on average.

One of my systems (which is as close to "set and forget" as I've ever got: it trades a maximum of two forex-pairs at a set time of day, by buy/sell-stop orders with fixed TP's and SL's) produces about 7 trades per week or 30 per month, on average.

My manual trading - all my other little price action systems, traded together from the same charts - produce something like 5 trades per day on average, occasionally a little more. These trades can each be open for anything between 5 minutes and 5 hours (though the average is far closer to the former); so that's about another 65 trades per month, allowing for the fact that I tend to trade only on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, for the most part.

I'm the same way that you are. It's all depending on the situation that I'm in. I have enough experience to be risk-averse and don't wait for an unexpected turning point. Before the end of any given trading session, I close my open positions and enjoy a good night sleep. Foreign currency trading is short-term by the token of its high volatility, unpredictability and the diverse nature of factors that influence Forex market movements.

Honesty I keep on trading till I make massive profits or just blow away the account, I am very impatient, but luckily in recent time I have got a fairly good way of working which brings enough profits, so I am hardly required to do much trading daily.

This is the better way to trade in my opinion instead of staring at the screen and making judgement calls all the time. My forex trading is similar with preset conditions and trades that execute automatically, leaving me more time to continue with research and disproving some assumption I have.

It's a bit different for stocks though, there I tend to jump in in different situations.

my philosophy is less is more. shoot for trading only the best setup opportunities and trade conditions. when i first started i was obsessed and traded constantly, now i see that this was just sloppy and an addiction - risking more, more frequently, on low-quality trades because i felt like i had to constantly be actively trading. now i have grown to have some patience and i mainly trade the daily time frame, so that has helped me to narrow down to a few promising trades (i probably have 1 - 4 trades going per week depending on how long i let them run, and what kind of conditions the market presents).

Hi guys,

Sorry if it feels like I'm threadjacking but I can't start my own threads as I just signed up.
I would like to ask about currency pairs with regards to their trading sessions.

These are the following assumptions:
- I have a profitable trading system
- I trade on a 4hr chart
- I trade only the Majors

For example, I would like to trade the USDJPY pair.

Qn 1) Do I trade the pair only during the Tokyo or New York session? (since USD and JPY is involved)
I came from a futures-trading background, so what I normally do is to trade SPX when New York equity markets open, trade DAX when European markets are open, etc. Basically, I only trade the indexes during their equity market opening hours. I believe Forex doesn't work the same way.

Qn 2) Which comes first? Technicals or trading sessions?
Assuming the spread is not an issue at this point.
Let's say I observe a pretty good setup which fulfils the technical aspect of my criteria, but this setup happens to fall outside of its trading session, do I still go ahead with the trade? In other words, USDJPY has a good 4hr chart setup during the London session.

Qn 3) When/what time do daily candles conclude officially each day? Do all pairs conclude at the same time?
In trading index futures, daily candles are printed after the equity market hours are over.
I cannot possibly use the daily candle that my broker provides on the chart because the daily candle is printed based on their own timings, as such it would be inaccurate.(Different brokers print daily candles at different timings)
However, I'm not sure how this works in Forex.

Thank you once again to everyone and anyone who is able to help.
Cheers!

Whenever an opportunity presents itself.

Not anymore or less.

2 trades on each currency pair in a month.I trade 5 currency pairs maximum trades 4 or 5

2 trades in a day since I'm still in 9-5 job. Anyone else here with me?

I´ve been doing a few hours of trading every day for the last month, normally about 2-5 trades/hour. I think I have been overtrading a little bit though so now Im trying to trade less and analyse more for a while. I have just started working with backtesting and im trying to figure out a profitable strategy, seems abit trickier then I first thought. But I will make it sooner or later

Depends on your daily target.
Personally, I always do 3-4 trades in a day but I always evading any news (I'm a scalper)

I place at least 2 trades every day... depending on the structure of the markets for the day and the result of my analysis... So basically, i place at least 10 trades every week