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- Monk replied Oct 22, 2008
so anyone want to take a stab at whats going to happen in 30 minutes? i am tempted to just take my profits....have some good stops in place, but wondering if we don't see a bottle rocket of buying at the london open.
Auslanco - GBP/JPY and GBP/USD (newstrade)
- Monk replied Oct 22, 2008
i was 20 minutes from taking my profit for the day and calling it a night before all this started..... many many times i have done that and woke to find another 500 pips come and gone
Auslanco - GBP/JPY and GBP/USD (newstrade)
- Monk replied Oct 22, 2008
130 pip retrace for the ride back down anyone?? closed one of my shorts for some 120 pips....and had another stupid short i took get stopped at 30 pip loss on this retrace..... oh well.....90 is better then nothing. New short at 2860 and will hold ...
EURUSD
- Monk replied Oct 21, 2008
well....here is my question....how are they NOT involved yet. I would think that someone would have called their buddies and said....Uh....John....you might want to turn on your computer...something weird is going on. With such a steep decline what ...
Auslanco - GBP/JPY and GBP/USD (newstrade)
- Monk replied Oct 21, 2008
even E/U is getting killed.....with 50 pip retraces on a one minute candle. Did the Anti Christ just get born into the world and we don't know it yet??
Auslanco - GBP/JPY and GBP/USD (newstrade)
- Monk replied Oct 21, 2008
thats the question of the night..... my only answer is this.....i am already in some profitable trades for the day.....so adding some more on during any retrace and setting reasonable stops based on a % of what i am already up makes sense. But at ...
Auslanco - GBP/JPY and GBP/USD (newstrade)
- Monk replied Oct 21, 2008
Whatever happens — Tell my wife I love her
Auslanco - GBP/JPY and GBP/USD (newstrade)
- Monk replied Oct 21, 2008
yep....and now i am breating "sign of relief" we are back around my last entry.....and doing the old "SHOULD HAVE SOLD MORE" on the 40+ pip retrace. more times then i can count though i have kept selling into a bull move and buying into a bear ...
Auslanco - GBP/JPY and GBP/USD (newstrade)
- Monk replied Oct 21, 2008
yes...reason i ask about resistance levels is the desire (urge) to continue selling into the free fall....but want to be careful of those areas. for example most recent short is at 6410 when i should have manybe waiting retrace of 50 pips or so to ...
Auslanco - GBP/JPY and GBP/USD (newstrade)
- Monk replied Oct 21, 2008
understood.....does anyone have any sort of resistence levels over the next say 500 pips down? I can't seem to make sense out of any of my charts.
Auslanco - GBP/JPY and GBP/USD (newstrade)
- Monk replied Oct 21, 2008
yes i have something close to that in my software.....but it never works out right.....and the few times i've used it....my price gets "touched" and then there is a reverse and away we go in the other direction...... then i come back to the computer ...
EURUSD
- Monk replied Oct 21, 2008
now that i missed as well......but in a good way..... was reading some email....switched back and saw a nice red drop.....god I LOVE THAT SITE stop moved to b/e
EURUSD
- Monk replied Oct 21, 2008
you know....i've never really learned how to do that on my software.....i use VT Trader....and any time you want to set any sort of SELL / BUY that would get triggered it never seems to work right for me. Maybe a demo account and some testing is in ...
EURUSD
- Monk replied Oct 21, 2008
was sitting here for awhile waiting for 3000 to break so i could pull the trigger.....got up to go take a piss and missed it!!!! how often does that happen..... got in at 2970 and not to happy. stop at 3003 oh well. GY treating me well today.
EURUSD
- Monk replied Oct 21, 2008
Ok...REALLY dumb question for anyone to answer. I always see several people posting this attachments for a trading program. 1. Which platform ? metatrader? 2. If so...i have a demo account / version of it....how to i "install" / use the attachment? ...
Auslanco - GBP/JPY and GBP/USD (newstrade)
- Monk replied Oct 21, 2008
well there u go my friend. i'm still short from 169. best darn trade i've had in weeks
Auslanco - GBP/JPY and GBP/USD (newstrade)
- Monk replied Oct 7, 2008
yes yes....right with you.....today is a perfect example of my mistakes....place a great trade at the NY open.....score lots and lots of pips.... then make a few more on the retrace. then spend the rest of the day giving it back 10-20 pips at a ...
EURUSD