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shellsnail replied May 13, 2015EUR/USD long setting up../triggering
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shellsnail replied May 13, 2015shrugs, a while ago I read an article saying that EUR/USD rallies on bad euro news because of how euro is acting like jpy. It is the borrowed-against currency for investing since it has the lowest interest rate now so bad news means cut back carry ...
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shellsnail replied May 12, 2015First attempt at compounding. EUR/NZD long. Added 0.17 SL at break-even. image
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shellsnail replied May 12, 2015hmm I just went short exactly 5683 lol (1/2 size) yes. Looking for 60 pip move actually. 1.562 good chance may be taken out... but have to trade it following my system. Regardless, I would need to see a bigger retrace > 40 pips from here before ...
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shellsnail replied May 12, 2015below 1.566 first entry (1/3 size) on high volume break to downside. initial SL around 17 pips. Scale in (2/3 size) when momentum reverses. no target, jumping stop 20 pip. However, if price starts spiking up from here immediately I'd go short.
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shellsnail replied May 12, 2015I'm getting ready to buy the next dip/new low.
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shellsnail replied May 12, 2015How I estimate the expected returns While the details such as time frame, pairs to trade, entry/exit rules are all different, the principles are largely similar to my Live account's method. I'm an intraday trader and I have traded my system live ...
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shellsnail replied May 12, 2015From experience, the best trade here is to wait for a significant retrace and then go long with a trailing stop for the rest of the day.
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shellsnail replied May 12, 2015At this point the title seems a bit misleading, because I'm not really using high leverage and neither am I compounding/scaling-in. Still experimenting/observing when/where best to scale-in. Appreciate any input from readers.
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shellsnail replied May 12, 2015AUD/JPY SL shift up to 95.00 image
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shellsnail replied May 12, 2015Shift EUR/NZD SL up to 000 line. Meanwhile on my live account, GBP/USD long take profit +60 pips

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shellsnail replied May 12, 2015Trade Management EUR/NZD stop at BE. image Not doing any trades European session because focusing on Live account. In a nice GBP/USD Long trade.
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shellsnail replied May 12, 2015Pre-European Session Update AUD/JPY well in profit, 6 pips shy of next jumping stop target. 40 pip shy of TP. Re-entered on EUR/NZD long after price stopped me out and recovered. Pairs in Focus GBP/AUD - long GBP/CAD - long GBP/CHF - long GBP/USD - ...
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shellsnail replied May 11, 2015@nubcake, @hanover, @Kilian19 Thanks for the responses. Think I'll start with learning C++ and Python. Currently I only know R and a bit of basic Python because I've been working on data-related work. Building a crawler like that would be really ...
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shellsnail replied May 11, 2015AUD/JPY Long Trade management: SL shift to BE. image EUR/NZD Long Stopped out.
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shellsnail replied May 11, 2015Time To Learn A young but earnest Zen student approached his teacher, and asked the Zen Master: “If I work very hard and diligent how long will it take for me to find Zen.” The Master thought about this, then replied, “Ten years.” The student then ...
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shellsnail replied May 11, 2015Gentle reminder to all reading/following: These are my expected returns: Expected Win-Rate: 15% winners, 35% breakeven/partial win, 50% losses. Expected Max Drawdown: 40~50% Expected Profit Factor: 1.7 Expected Monthly Gains: ~70% I expect to lose ...
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shellsnail replied May 11, 2015Current exposure: Long AUD Short JPY Short NZD AUD/CAD setting up for short -- may enter because it passses correlation filter to offset long AUD exposure. "Correlation Filter: Is there a trade of the same currency (EUR/CHF/GBP) already open trading ...
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shellsnail replied May 11, 2015Long EUR/NZD image Long AUD/JPY image
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