If you set your goal as breaking even, your brain will make sure you do just enough to break even. Just like in school when they told you to finish an assignment at a given time, it didn't really matter if that was to long or to short, it took you ...

The GOAL is to survive

Funny how you reached your goals of be pretty much exactly. Not once but actually twice! Coincidence? Definitely not

The GOAL is to survive

Weekly growth: 0% Weekly accomplishments; Only 1 missed entry which was taken as a re-entry as it was still per my rules Moved money to USD partly in advance of brexit and completely after brexit (second was after the bounce back so still happy with ...

serious biezniz

Quick explanation why i think everyone should do at least some form of daily/weekly reporting: What gets measured gets accomplished. You need to do this for the same reason you need to write out goals: so you stay focused, know where you are and ...

serious biezniz

weekly growth: -9.2% Weekly accomplishments; kept relatively cool in the face of pretty significant draw-down Only one real trade missed, and that was only due to a hedge situation (losing trade) Traded half size on Thursday due to big news as ...

serious biezniz

I think the problem lies in trying to mechanically trade changing times. I mean you basically say the same thing, yet you don't do it. If you trade a system manually and you see changes happening before your eyes you can adapt to them. Also adding ...

Strategy: Inside Bar + ATR - help needed

Quick example: data by member zinc6, now all you really need is to work out how the crappy trades look and how the good trades look. I can highly suggest doing that by actually going through them so you recognize patterns instead of trying to find ...

Strategy: Inside Bar + ATR - help needed

wuuuuut? not one person ever heard of him?

Quick and helpful question for you and me:

Weekly accomplishments; Achieved +23.5% growth Reached my growth target for reducing my position size Reached my net profit target for increasing my account balance Set up this trading journal with weekly reports Next weeks goals; Don’t miss any ...

serious biezniz

That's one funny move to commercial

Quick and helpful question for you and me:

lijken toch wat meer nederlanders dan gedacht op dit forum . Hallo allemaal en groeten uit het noorden!

Dutch Traders

lijken toch wat meer nederlanders dan gedacht op dit forum . Hallo allemaal en groeten uit het noorden!

Dutch Traders

Alot of quantatative (hope i'm spelling that right) analysis has already been done, not only in the professional world but also just here on this forum. Most of it is based on 1 or maybe 2 pairs and only a couple of weeks for obvious lazy reasons. ...

Strategy: Inside Bar + ATR - help needed

haha been using it since i joined because i quickly needed something, wanted to change it anyway so i will no problem Anyway, another loss on the EU this time, no biggie as i trade this method extremely small because i'm just learning it but ...

As simple as possible: 00 level trading

Kinda new to this method but wanted to start trading something else to diversify my other superslow but profitable 4hr method. Anyway, had 2 trades this morning 1 went to tp but the other was a loser: image and the winner: image any comments on ...

As simple as possible: 00 level trading

Hi, Just wondering, what do you base you expectation of 60-70% winratio on? I'm not here to say your expectation is wrong because of just 5 trades, we all know that can happen to any system because winners and losers are randomly generated. Anyway ...

100% Mechanical Trading Journal

Hi, First of all sorry for not updating the thread so long. I've been extremely busy. First switched broker which ended up being a huge hassle. Most of all my time was spent testing variations of this method (testing different TF's and exit ...

Pure and simple DIBS trading

After the rain comes sunshine, patience is often rewarded in forex. For a couple of days everything seemed bad. You need to be certain of you strategy and believe your edge will come through. In my case this results in 2 free rides, nothing much but ...

Pure and simple DIBS trading