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- dragoncat replied Sep 2, 2008
wow.. nice stuff... it'll be too much of a distraction though... LOL... is it legal to have one of these in your front yard?

EURUSD
- dragoncat replied Sep 2, 2008
everyone uses different methods for entries, ie. pivots, indicators etc. I think you have to identify the problem in your analysis first... but if you are saying that your stop gets hit too often, then I'd say there must be something wrong, I also ...
EURUSD
- dragoncat replied Sep 2, 2008
Trading801: you small SL keep getting hit because your entry is bad... 8 hour position is short term and 50-75 pips SL for EUR/USD is more than enough, if it keeps getting hit, there's either problem with your analysis, which also leads to bad ...
EURUSD
- dragoncat replied Sep 2, 2008
that's risking 66.7% in one trade...
33.3x leverage for xxx/USD pairs and approx 50x leverage for EUR/USD pair... 

EURUSD
- dragoncat replied Sep 2, 2008
in my opinion, it's not about smaller SL, it's about balancing the SL and TP, if you risk 500pips, and the 500pips is worth 2% of your account, you trade long term, and you have a TP of 1000pips, I won't say it's too big of a stop, it's how much you ...
EURUSD
- dragoncat replied Sep 2, 2008
if you find AH interesting, then I'm sure you'll find a whole lot more interesting stuff around in Jacko's thread...
for the newbies, I'm sure it's been said enough times, if you couldn't be bothered reading through the first few pages of the ...Jacko's Forex House of Pleasure and Pain
- dragoncat replied Sep 2, 2008
yes... 1.4530 area is building a fairly good top/resistance, and price may head south very soon... anyway, price is trapped in a tight range and it's boring as hell, that's why I'm here posting, waiting for the breakout either side... in my opinion ...
EURUSD
- dragoncat replied Sep 1, 2008
hi Petea1uk, welcome! I think the reason why there aren't much discussion re: Jacko's method, is because the method's been fully documented already, and the pdf document has all you need to know about it, and doesn't need much explaination, so some ...
Jacko's Forex House of Pleasure and Pain
- dragoncat replied Sep 1, 2008
ok, now the 1.4570 area have gave a mere 30ish pips bounce, and have lost grip couple of hours ago, I'd say the bulls, better get the hell out, and come back in a few days, the bears, hope you're still holding onto your shorts... current quote ...
Jacko's Forex House of Pleasure and Pain
- dragoncat replied Aug 29, 2008
yeah, looks like it's not going to hold this time, for the bulls, buy again around 1.4570, for the bears, sell the rallies...

Jacko's Forex House of Pleasure and Pain
- dragoncat replied Aug 28, 2008
price creeping up slowly... again, price should get fairly close to 1.4800 today.. in the next 3-4 hours..
EURUSD
- dragoncat replied Aug 28, 2008
i shorted yesterday at 1.4775 & 1.4805, but was taken out at 9am coz I had a 50 pips trailing stop on it, then it fell another 100 or so pips afterwards, comes to show a 50 pips TSL is useless in today's volatility but price seems to be finding ...
Jacko's Forex House of Pleasure and Pain
- dragoncat replied Aug 28, 2008
it's a lucky day for euro...
it's hard to believe, but euro seems to be building a base around 1.4685 over night, and in the early asian trading hours..EURUSD
- dragoncat replied Aug 27, 2008
no problems!
btw. you don't need to use the {} if it's just one line of code.. unless it's your writing style, ie. you want to keep the habit of doing it with all "if" so the codes looks consistent, your choice...Help changing code......
- dragoncat replied Aug 26, 2008
just thought of an example.. //storing the range of previous candles, up to a maximum of last 100 candles int numBars; double Range[100]; if (Bars > 100) numBars=100; else numBars=Bars; for (int n=0; n < numBars; n++) Range[n] = High[n] - Low[n];
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- dragoncat replied Aug 26, 2008
array is just like any other variable, hard to give an example when you declare a variable, instead of "int MyValues", you declare it as "int MyValues[n]" instead, where "n" is the number of variables in your array, so instead of having ...
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