Guess i've got a different def. of "scalping". At one time in my first round of training i was trained on short tf charts of 1m looking for direction on 5m in what was called a momentum channel. Anyway, for me this didn't work well. Then i began ...

Scalping is the doorway to real trading

Hi BRV, you mention Bloomberg, i've used their morning live-webTV broadcasts to much profit and I'm wondering what more you might need that B is not providing? Last NFP Friday i was in the "right" direction 1 minute after the announcement and the ...

Anyone Know Where I Can Find FAST Free Real-Time News Results?

just ramblin' On a personal note, QP pondering gives me a warm fuzzy feeling ; - ) that somehow in the mix of things (creation/universe) that there is in fact more going on than meets-the-eye. That in some way we as individuals can interact on a ...

Quantum Physics and trading forex

Sign me up for the experiment; i'm always up for a bit of fun! How about you starting another thread somewhere Lou, If nothing else it will certainly be a conversation starter in the future. We could pick a pair such as the EURJPY that is not so ...

Neuro Linguistic Programming Book

First off, Rusty, fun posts/replies to your original comment/post. Certainly something i ponder upon quite often actually. I have a handful of good reads in my library on QP, my most recent read titled; "Biology of Belief" [Lipton]. . .the basic ...

Quantum Physics and trading forex

A great link for time zones is at: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/ The Chicago Mercentile Exchange closes at 5pm (When Vegas takes his signals) which is UTC/GMT -6 hours and has a +1hr Daylight saving time from April 2 ending Oct 29th.

VWVB Daily Chart Analysis

Hi all. MuddBuddha and RoBiK great replys, could not have said it better! T-bird, just as an example Jim (James16) has used a 25ema as part of a particular system he teaches, if one were to place a 21ema (a FIBO number) you would see that they are ...

most popular EMAs

Great Q's Aparsai, and have enjoyed reading each of the responses. I had the same Q's when beginning the FX adventure. A couple years before my FX adventure i read a great book called "Safe Strategies for Financial Freedom" by Van K. Tharp ( a full ...

Is it Possible to Make Money in Forex Market

Hi there, you might want to download and check out these mods i did on an RSI with a standard RSI and then dragging the "RSI_dots.mq4" on top of the RSI and you will have dots on each candle. I like the look of it (though i don't use indicators ...

Indicator in Metatrader

I jumped into a micro-lot live account after 3 months of "training" with a particular company and had a 50% drawdown which i took as a great lession. My 1 yr aniv. is comming up this Memorial Day holiday (my first class last year) and I'm actually ...

How do you newbies not lose your motivation?

OK, can i have two answers? I often times will be watching 15 min candles and enter at candle close so i'll say < 15 mins? and I ALWAYS, in ALL things ask; < God Bless Me, but the later is not realy a question as much as a statement as i know he ...

how long do you consider a trade before entering?

I lean toward price action near a given MA rather than using multiple MAs as a cross over signal or entry/exit. Jim (James16) has really broadened my thinking as to using them in ways i had not thought of before following his price action section in ...

most popular EMAs

Life? What life? — LOL. Great thread and good posts. Several mentioned taking your time (and to me a year into this, three years dosn't seem like a long time at all : - ) Taking your time, the time you personally need to feel comfortable with ...

How much time did it take you to make progress?

I'm in agreement with the above posts on mostly being aware of a news announcement, but for most part not placing much weight on them (Merlin...thx for the little collored factory buildings!). One thing i was taught is that news announcments many ...

ignoring the news

Facinating Bemac, almost pip-on! Is there a thread/link that would give more information on the DORbreak? Sounds like a good arrow to add to the quiver(?). Cheers, Thom

GBPUSD

GBPUSD trade on 2006 Apr 19 — a nice little 35 pip GBPUSD Buy Entry order i placed before hitting the pillow last nite that was executed and PT target hit before i woke this morning: image full screen link: ...

GBPUSD

follow this link and then click "Show Details" on whatever market you want further info on: http://www.worldmarkethours.com/Forex/Defaulta.htm?12,0,1,0,5 great stuff Cheers, Thom

Market open/close times

Hi all, the above snippet of HJ's post caught my eye/thoughts. Though i do aspire to be a full time trader down the road (say 7 years or so from now once i hit 55) it does indeed "occupy most of my thoughts" as far as a career goes (yes i do have a ...

Who of you guys makes a living of Forex?

my 2 pips worth, Dr Elders in his book "Trading for a living" talks about slippage in the Futures market being at times quite significant. Just stating what is in the book. I have yet to have a problem with my spot FX broker on slipage or steelage ; ...

Joe Ross / When Not To Trade FX

The audio CD version of "Trading for a Living" arrived today! Yippie...it'll go into the bedside CD player tonight and be played in the pillow speaker under my pillow for a few nights, then i'll put it on during waking hours and get into it more. ...

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