It's crazy that something like that, a false report, can come out of nowhere and have such impact on the financial markets. I read that it temporarily wiped out $136.5 billion of the value of the S&P 500 index. But for those of us trying to make it ...

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Took it on the chin today with the huge spike down on the yen pairs a little after 1:00 PM New York time over the AP twitter account hack and false report of the explosions at the US White House. Amazing how twitter seems to be controlling the ...

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Final pip count for April 23 is -169 weighted. Still waiting for USDCAD trade to resolve from yesterday to report yesterday's results.

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Final pip count for April 18 is -73 weighted. Final pip count for April 19 is +3 weighted. Final pip count for the week is -117 weighted. Should have been a positive week but missed some good trades as mentioned above on April 17. Overall still ...

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Just keep in mind that these are my opinions only, I believe the way I believe and I feel in the long run that will be the profitable way to go, but there will always be situations where the opposite will be the case. I do think that if moving or ...

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Final pip count for April 17 is +28 weighted. Should have been much better, missed a couple good trades.

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Today's EURJPY trade has been an example of this for me, today has been a crazy day. My profit/loss stats have been all over the place, from looking really good to being strongly negative, some losses but then some nice winners. The EJ was way into ...

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Final pip count for April 15 is -5 weighted. Final pip count for April 16 is -70 weighted. I am reporting final pip counts according to trades started on the day referenced in the post, so that is why I am just now reporting the pip count for ...

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This can be very frustrating, I have had this happen where I have had trades go into profit only to turn and hit stop loss without getting an exit signal first. It's easy to say take the emotion out of it, just trade mechanically and trust your ...

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Final pip count for April 12 is +10 weighted. Final pip count for the week is -106 weighted. For my explanation of weighted pips, see post #129.

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Final pip count for April 11 is -75 weighted.

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Final pip count for April 10 is -14 weighted.

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Final pip count for April 9 is -67 weighted.

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Patience pays, only 1 trade today, took forever to go anywhere but finally ended with 48 pips. Final pip count for April 8 is +40 weighted.

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Been kind of a boring day so far, only 1 valid trade so far per my method and it's a little bit negative right now. My first trade on EURGBP was not a correct entry, managed to get out of that at BE. We'll see what happens the rest of the day, no ...

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Thanks, I know what you mean that sometimes it's hard to sift through some of the stuff that's being posted on FF, but there is a lot of good information too. One has to find the golden nuggets that can be used to suit their own personal trading ...

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Love Trading in the Zone, you can google Mark Douglas Mind Over Market for a very good interview with him. For the most part I trade on M15, sometimes on M30 depending on the situation. I just ran across this passage from Trading in the Zone, it is ...

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So far since I changed my approach and reduced leverage while taking multiple trades per day, things have been going well. There have been 7 trading days for me in these 2 weeks, I did not trade Good Friday March 29, Easter Monday April 1, or NFP ...

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Final pip count for April 4 is +321 weighted. Done for the week, no trading on NFP Friday for me. Final pip count for the week is +359 weighted. For my explanation of weighted pips, see post #129.

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Hey Geppy, thanks, very good day today, I am waiting for the last trade to resolve before reporting the pip count.

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