Take profit target just filled in this likely final trade of the week for me. Strong, strong performance this morning once the CPI fireworks began. Made good profits up and good profits down. A nice tidy bit of info in these lines, I must say. ...

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The problem with FF is that smart guys like Blue are continually baiting me to chase my tail down a seemingly bottomless barrel of rabbit holes. Still trading fixed bar Gold (using the GC futures contract) and EURUSD (using the 6E futures contract), ...

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The central theme of this thread is the discovery of a simple, fixed bar trading method that the would-be successful trader can put into practice in order to train to overcome one's fear. With the help of ai: Mark Douglas, author of Trading in the ...

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Anyone following along here in this thread should test himself or herself and then answer these questions for himself or herself based on the testing. The purpose of the 20 trade exercise is to learn to trade in probabilities and to become ...

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FOMC days when the rate announcements occur late in the day can be good days to stand down as well. Many instruments that otherwise move well tend to chop those days until the announcement at 2PM NYC. Instrument 100% matters. Time also matters: ...

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Why do you not show the time axis?

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Just FYI: one of the benefits of a fixed bar start is that it should take this trading error out of the plan. Which trading error? Moving the stop too breakeven and collecting a bunch of small losses (fees/commissions) instead of taking profits. ...

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The fact that he claims to be a "quant" yet starts with 1:1 as his minimum tells us all we need to know. Almost every institutional quant I've heard or read (real quants, not wannabe social media trading influencers) whose algo's are day trading ...

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150% sounds big, but its really just 50% of the signal bar. You should be tracking that data as well to determine if moving stop to BE after such a small excursion in your favor is beneficial. If you were scalping off a M1 or M5, then moving to BE, ...

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I only know one or two ways to peel an onion, but I sure peel it well and I never shed a tear.

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For the most part, we all grew up from trading bucket shop contracts to trading exchange listed and traded futures contracts. Dude, you need to check your ego at the door.

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Why was this stopped at breakeven when it was?

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Would love to see a platform chart that shows the trade executions, entry and take profit. Something like this on the NQ: image Or this on the 6E (EURUSD): image Otherwise, it just comes across like this: "Look at these trades I did on Gold. EZ ...

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Going back to SIM when you realize you're on a TILT spree is probably the first sign that you are taking a more professional approach to your trading. I'congratulate you for recognizing and taking responsibility for that which you are responsible. A ...

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These posts where I am trading forex futs should be read in the context of money management using larger targets. While I have a fixed bar I use on them, the market cycle (breakout, trend/channel, trading range) dictate the set ups, and the fibs, as ...

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Much less "back and fill" in the DAX than the US Indices. If I were trading from the UK rather than the USA I'd be 100% all-in on the DAX. Thank you, my friend. It is great to see you here!

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The virtue of using fib extensions as money management tools is that they self adjust to current market conditions and in general will increase the probabilities of a take profit because the take profit is reasonable based on the currentrange. When ...

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For day trading, I think the idea of the "trailing stop loss" is on par with the "every trade must be a 2:1 profit to loss" ... both sound good on paper, and have helped countless vendors sell trading courses and discord memberships, but despite ...

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It is nearly unbelievable to me, rocky, that you've been gone for half a year already. Six months since last we saw. Truly gone, and truly not forgotten.

Williams%R, SAR X-over 15 minute candles

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