You're right, it's better to keep it low profile. And you're right about notions and beliefs. You're right, there's no way of telling if a "new" trader full of enthusiasm and self-confidence, will be the next Livermore or will go bust in a few ...

Are New Traders Who Are Successful Hated?

Hm ... I like The Mechanic, I like the vibe of the 70s, no hurry, not everything about "spending the money we don't have, on things we don't need, to impress people we don't like" ... I like his professional attitude, independent person with a ...

Learn to Swim

I'm not a day trader but I hear they plan their day every morning before the game begins. So maybe it's not a weekend thing, but let's hear them daytraders.

Planning The Week Ahead

Hey C-Man ... Seaman ... learning to swim. Good to see you around, I liked your philosophy and I remember you were a fan of Bronson's. Which one is your fave movie? Regarding GBP ... do you find one chart gives you enough information? Not talking ...

Learn to Swim

Yeah .. strange jump ... maybe a tear in the space-time continuum ... or a news announcement or a bad feed indeed. FXAssassin, check with another feed.

How Does This Type of Gap Happen?

Thanks for the tip, I'll have a glance. H4 and upwards is where the fun begins.

Aussie Trading Room and Cartoons Gallery

Thanks for the insight ... I like inside facts. Anything else? Like the percentage of winning/losing retail clients?

Percentage of Forex that is strictly currency trading?

Would you share some tips .. preferred timeframe or a good trading system .. I've been eyeing this pair for shorting AUD - the others seem to cost a lot more when you're short AUD.

Aussie Trading Room and Cartoons Gallery

Devil take the box options. Tried them a few times, no fun. There was that chap tho, mentioned a dozen times he's the one who arbed Oanda when they mispriced the box options a few years ago. I don't care to remember the name, so many names, they ...

Oanda shutting down BoxOptions

Don't mix martingale in, it's more like money management than a trading approach. Good or bad, it tries to take advantage of streaks. Nothing more, nothing less. Let's see some interesting approaches ... triangular arbitrage maybe? google it Or ...

Different approaches to trading?

Google, is always the best place to start. It says 80-90 % of the turnover purely speculative.

Percentage of Forex that is strictly currency trading?

Portfolio means you don't put all your eggs in one basket. First not all of your money needs to be in speculative investments. The part you bring to the market, you may want to split up in a way that results of individual systems are not correlated, ...

Making a good diversified portfolio

I think a nice little storm is brewing. Could it be the SNB's "utmost determination" is not enough? Or will they adjust the peg lower? 1.2 is just another number, if the economy would be better with 1.1 why would they not change it. The swiss are a ...

EUR/CHF

Correct as usual, Custos. To illustrate it - sell limit: price is going up but I think it's gonna come back so I put the sell limit HIGH sell stop: if price falls below this price, I want to be in because I think it's gonna move much lower Simples... ...

Sell Limit / Sell Stop

... if your average win is more than your average loss then you're making money. So if you win 2 pips much more often than you lose 10 then no worries. And this has nothing to do with MM. As long as you keep possie sizes (and your risk) consistent, ...

Eat the elephant in small bites