Great thread! I have been giving this some thought lately. I have to agree with Dopey - the target is the ideal, but if prices are close to the target and the market starts reversing you should be happy with what you got. Sure it might come back, ...

To Trailing Stop or Not To Trailing Stop....

In capitalism people do not enter into any exchange unless it is to their mutual benefit. If someone is unhappy with the terms of the exchange they do not transact -its that simple. So in forex you are not hurting anyone because there is free ...

Is trading Forex immoral??

video = Here is a short Peter Bain vid with a quite a few setups.

Show your workstation!

When I have an open trade its not just money at stake but also the dreams I have of financial independence. This is really the stressful thing - the fluctuating belief in myself and my system. Its easy to doubt oneself and lose hope that trading ...

Lessons by Joe Ross

url — Bruce Kovner

Who are the top best Forex traders in world??

url — Recent moves in the Thai Baht had nothing to do with the Coup, but the Governments failed attempt to intervene to prevent the THB becoming too valuable against the US dollar. Article

concurrent uncorrelated positions

url — Victor Niederhoffer wrote an interest in article about this. Although he used the S&P 500 as the example it would equally aply to FX IMO. url

Random Price Movement

My experience — Clam, I spent about a year on Brad Cowan's Stock Market Geometry which is a course that covers heliocentric planetary alignments with Commodity market cycles as well as harmonics and sympatheitic resonance and multi dimensional ...

Harmonic trading-harmonic patterns

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Show your workstation!

A lot of experienced traders seem to trade this way. There is a good site called url on pure price action. I find for my own trading that indicators simplify price action and make it easier to see through the noise.

Naked Chart Trading

But think about this: A large group of people trading the same system with a market maker all go long at the same time. In order to hedge the exposure created by this buying, the market maker takes a short of equal size in the interbank ...

System Diluting

Money Master I agree 100% that people use material things and titles to make themselves feel valuable. Looking rich and being rich are one thing but feeling rich is what is what is most important. Wealth is having and doing what you want with your ...

Millionaires

"I alone have the ability to destroy my account" Aint that the truth!

Best trade ever

I am just manually setting price levels at which I know my setups will be near their trigger point. At this stage I am not using an EA but I might look into it soon. I have an i-mode mobile which comes with an email address. I simply put that into ...

EMA crossover Email Alert

Problem solved Thanks for all the help. BTW I route the email to my mobile which rings when certain prices are hit so now I need much less screen time!

EMA crossover Email Alert

I think I have set everything up correctly but I keep getting the error message Mail:550 Sender address is missing a domain - even though I have a full email address with no mistakes. Any Idea what to do or what that means? I am using my full ISP ...

EMA crossover Email Alert

Thanks Nvwine - I'll contact my ISP now.

EMA crossover Email Alert

Thanks alot compro. Actually I am not using the ema cross as a signal, just Bid< or bid> . Do I still need an EA for this? Regards.

EMA crossover Email Alert

This is going back somewhat, but I am just trying to recieve emails based on certain price levels being hit in MT4 under the alerts tab. The input setting for MT4 are SMTP server: SMTP login: SMTP password: From: To: Could anyone who has ...

EMA crossover Email Alert