SHI Channels — I'm experimenting with the SHI channels and to be honest I'm still not sure I'm convinced by them yet ... If I look at the EURUSD now (7:38am GMT), these are the results : TF | SHI Direction M15 | Down M30 | Down H1 | Up H4 | ...

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Generally the system works quite well on the lower time frames, but it's entirely about finding what works for you ... For me, 4h doesn't work too well with my time zone, hence my focus on the lower ones ... but my impression is that 4h is generally ...

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Hi SimR, Could you please provide more details of the timeframe you're trading on, and which times you're trading, and preferably screenshots, and then we can be of more help. The reason I say this is because each of USD/CAD(short), AUD/USD ( ...

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Would you mind sharing what software you're using to do the screenshots & uploads - could definitely be handy for those of us unable to use mt4 from work. Thanks!

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Hey ... just wondering if there is any reason why you chose NON US hours ... To me this would mean you were trading H1 during the Asian sessions, which most people have advised can be a bloodbath with TMS ... From what I've seen, the most successful ...

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Note though that for you that candle has remained blue, whereas for Jak it's red, so I'd suggest your 4 hr candles refresh at slightly different times. Jak, couple of observations I'd make : As noted, slope/angle of cross may not have been sharp ...

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Seems to be working again now ... but seriously, that was almost a 50 minute outage ... thankfully the iPhone app was still showing live data and letting me see / modify trades (if I'd needed to).

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ditto ... have tried switching DCs, closing and reopening MT4, no ticks on live at all since approx 9:40 broker/Berlin time (nearly 20 mins ago), yet as with you demo is going happily ... Real2, connecting from NZ

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Hi ... The numbers represent Candle info in this form - Body / Upper Wick / Lower Wick. I'm not sure whether the numbers are pips or some other measurement, but they are an indication at least. Columns are constant - e.g. upper wick column is always ...

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To me things that would've kept me out of that trade are that the bounce has happened below 50 combined with the already OS stochs ... although on my chart the bounce appears to have happened right on 50, but different brokers I guess ... On the ...

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On a simplistic level, you could've just as easily been on the wrong side of one or all of those trades ... not worth worrying about ... there's some big winners today, and some big losers too - as has been pointed out, the UChf has been on a daily ...

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Connecting from Auckland, NZ ... Demo points me to Sydney (DC1 or DC2)... But connecting to Real2 points me to DC4 - London (?) ... Just tried 3 times in a row ... this is at 4pm Sydney time Monday ... (not sure what it normally connects to, haven't ...

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Just for the record, I login via the Real2 server as well and can't get a connection either ... Demo server does work fine though. However, I'm sure this happened one other weekend too - and it was running again by the time the markets opened. For ...

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Hi, Unfortunately for me I can only really trade about 6 hours a day and live in little ol' New Zealand. The means London is my evening and NY is my sleep time. So I made the decision from the beginning that H4 wouldn't work for me and instead trade ...

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Exits are just as important as entries — With last week being so challenging I'm going over the last week with a fine tooth comb looking at my entries and my exits, and also what happened in between ... I've come across a very interesting ...

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My Week Summary ... — So once again another week is (almost) over ... time to reflect ... I imagine I'm not the only one who's found this week trying, with a number of the pairs moving in relatively narrow bands. This forum seems to have ...

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i envisage it as wanting to become like a super experienced 747 pilot ... you've flown for so many years that no matter what alarm / buzzer / bang / conditions / snow / storm you see, you calmly take it in your steed and make the right decision ...

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This is purely my opinion, and I don't really have any numbers to back it up ... but to my way of thinking, the most recent S / R should have the most impact, because that is what *everyone* can see on their charts ... I was once in a thread where ...

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My 2c would be this ... Part 1 ... The Traditional Logic ... By taking the aggressive approach, you are likely to get more winning trades, but also more losing trades and probably a number of partial TP trades ... By taking the conservative ...

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Spyderman, Dean's words are very wise and definitely take heed of them. As always, there's a few different variations on a theme. Although there's a number of people here who do set based on last swing high / low, there's also people that take a ...

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