I can tell you this: it's fun, like going to vegas. You can win big, you can lose big, but it's fun. I myself lost, but got a great rush from it. Seeing your account deplete so fast is like jumping from a plane when a drunk prepared your parachute. ...

Is trading news too risky?

I'm not mad, I also have other systems. It's just that people like validation and others thinking "wow, I wish I was that guy" about them so whenever someone catches a big release you see them on the forums like look I made 80 pips in a few ...

How do you trade news?

I agree with almost everything you said. But I'm not blaming anybody but myself. I did backtest, I did get in with small parts at first. I'm just trying to bring some ballance to this hyped up thread about news trading like a holy grail. I have a ...

How do you trade news?

I don't want to talk about porn, I was making an analogy. If everybody in the world could be porn stars, nobody would be watching porn. If everybody in the world gets in at the same time in the same way in a trade, nobody wins. Look, the whole thing ...

How do you trade news?

Hey, there are a lot of people making a living by F***ing good looking women on camera. I'm sure we could all do it if we put our collective minds together. I wonder if there are more people who wish they were porn stars than people who wish to make ...

How do you trade news?

I want to share my positive experience too. I did the same thing as above a few times and it worked fine, untill two weeks ago when I got huge slippage and lost a big part of my hard earned account. That's with a reputable brooker that has great ...

Positive Broker Experience (For A Change)

You will take a few times then the brooker will take a whole lot more back. It happened to me. I'm sure you'll be fine though...

How do you trade news?

Not at all. It's the first book I read when I started trading. Mark Douglas knew what he was saying, and I'm actually going to reread it now. It teaches all the right stuff.

How do you trade news?

news trading is taking money from brookers. They can't offset the position at those times, so you are taking money from them. This will not work in the long run, if at all. Trading with a good intraday or swing trading system is taking money from ...

How do you trade news?

This thread had 23,497 visitors. Good luck to all, we'll bankrupt the brookers soon. We won't loose money, oh no, the brookers will. Come one come all, free money here...

How do you trade news?

Exactly. I wish this post was at the start of the thread, and I wish I hadn't been caught in Moneymaster's hype. He has money to loose obviously and he can afford to treat forex like going to Vegas. Oh yea, I have a great way to beat the casinos, ...

How do you trade news?

It's started already. Brookers don't care about free speech, they care about making money.

How do you trade news?

Listen man, I don't know what all that means, but let me tell you something. I live in eastern Europe and you live in the US. Don't lecture me about have and have nots. I have only about 1000$ in a forex account and if I lose that I'll have to ...

How do you trade news?

If Frank and Jessie would have talked on an internet forum with everybody the way you do, telling people how they do it they wouldn't have made a penny robbing banks. I bet if you were in their gang they would have kicked you out because of your big ...

How do you trade news?

Smartest reply in this whole thread. I have a feeling that soon people in this thread will realise why news trading is considered noobie trading.

How do you trade news?

how do you know? Because they say so?

Brokers & Informations

So you make about 10 trades a month, you place straddles before news and you get out a few secconds after with a profit. Don't you get slippage, requotes, manual execution? I tried to play the tradeballance a week ago and got about 25 pip slippage. ...

How do you trade news?

Money Ma$ter, I'm curious man, do you trade only news? If so, how many trades do you have a month on average?

How do you trade news?

What broker would allow you to do that?

Central Banks Watch

What broker are you using? I tried to trade yesterday's trade balance and got slipped 22 pips.

How do you trade news?