I'm in Ontario actually. Feel free to ask me anything though. I have no plans of giving up anytime soon. I dropped my laptop this week so I haven't been trading. Going to update my method and hopefully be good to go for monday again once I get a new ...

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Thursday July 28 Summary Not a lot of price movement today. With a day like yesterday I was really trying to only take the a+ setups so I didn't end up taking any trades today.

College kid tries trading for a living

Wednesday July 27 Summary 26.) Sell Eur/Usd at 14:45 risking 1%. -1% Prices just fell through support and formed a pin bar. Trend was down. Got barely stopped out. I should have reentered on the bar I got stopped out since it was a valid entry as ...

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Monday July 25 Summary Missed updating my journal for the past few days but I'm back at it now. Rough start to the week. Just stopped out before prices reversed. 24.) Buy UsdJpy at 14:48 risking 0.5%. -0,5% image 25.) Buy Aud/Usd at 14:50 risking ...

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Tuesday July 19 Summary 14.) Buy Nzd/Usd at 16:30 risking 0.5%. -0.3% Here we were in an uptrend when three pin bars formed at the same level suggesting we found a top. Then the next bar CLOSES above the high of all the pin bars. I went long here. I ...

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Monday July 18 Summary 13.) Short aud/usd at 17:20 risking 1%. +0.5% Moved stop to breakeven pretty fast. Just got stopped out on my second half. image

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Thursday July 14 Summary 12.) Sell Usd/Cad at 17:00 risking 1%. -1% I went against the keltner channel on this one. I though it had enough for a small reversal at least. image

College kid tries trading for a living

Where did you learn to trade fundies? Or are you just reacting to sudden price movement after news is announced and trading in that direction?

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Wednesday July 13 Summary Great day today! I was able to make 2% profit for the day while only ever putting 0.5% of my equity at risk. 10.) Buy Eur/Usd at 15:00 risking 0.5%. +1% image 11.) Sell EUR/CHF at 16:45 risking 0.5%. +1.05% image

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Tuesday July 12 Summary 7.) Sell USD/CHF at 15:14 risking 0.5%.+ 0.6% Wanted to risk 1% but I was planning on waiting for a retrace to enter the other half of my position. image 8.) Buy AUD/USD at 16:00 risking 1%. -0.3% Got scared by the big drop ...

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On pips: I've noticed a lot of people on this forum describing profit in terms of pips, ie "I made 40 pips from that trade". I prefer to use R or risk multiples to describe profit. The reason for this is profit is a function of risk(in %), stop loss ...

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Monday July 11 Summary Three trades today. Ended 0.5% down since I didn't have the balls to reenter after being stop hunted. Pin bars formed again so the signals were only better once institutional money showed interest in the move (stop hunt). ...

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Sunday July 10th Weekly Prep Part 2 GBP/CHF Looking for a play at 1.3268 GBP/JPY Would like to get a short in at the upper trendline. image EUR/CAD Watch 1.6230. Careful of the 365ema if it breaks tot he downside. image EUR/GPB Long off 0.8843 ...

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Sunday July 10th Weekly Prep Part 1 So on Sunday nights I'm going to post all the currency pairs I'm really interested in tomorrow. I think in the future I'll do my top 4 or 5. Things to consider for tomorrow.... EUR/USD Will probably touch the ...

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I guess it's also at this stage, I don't know if my "method" will be profitable or not. By adding profits or losses from new moves I felt would skew my results. I should learn this stuff though. I will open a new demo account and try and trade ...

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I don't trade news moves. Too inconsistent for me, and I don't have a good enough understanding of the fundamentals at this point. News for me is more of a reason to stay out than to enter. I like trading standard clean PA, anything that makes the ...

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I got it from Peterfaders Mad Scalper template over at babypips.I don't use the mad scalper system, but I do like the template. LINK If you don't want the whole template, I attached the pivot indicator as well. Just drop it in C:\Program Files\Go ...

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Grrrr. Didn't end up taking any trades today. Prices moved pretty fast, there were a few IBs I missed though. Figured I'd post a chart today anyways. After prices jumped above the daily pivot on Aud/Usd, we got a nice long pin bar. This pin bar even ...

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Awesome videos! I honestly wouldn't mind listening to them for 2 hours.

Mr. Trend's PA Setup Extravaganza

I DO live in Canada. I study Electrical/Computer engineering at UW. An analytical mind is a handy tool in this business. Best of luck to you too!

College kid tries trading for a living