Unreal you just keep digging hole for yourself. I heard about that fairytale book about 1.5 percent, but you think this really works in all situations? you want a trader who is trading for 7 pips with a 1:1 ratio to use that nonsense 1.5 percent and ...

Hedging vs Stop Loss

Good for you man, always good to hear someone from outside the box with something new. The market has a few tells that can be found, but keep it to yourself, the stakes are too high, to be talking i guess, I think you would rather be rich than right ...

I believe I found the Market's "Tell"

"Anyone going for the 3 pip broker is wasting money" Here is another blanket statement that we can argue all day because you are assuming that everyone can just use any broker all willy nilly. Here in US for example good outside brokers shun us like ...

Hedging vs Stop Loss

But that's the thing though, by definition to use hedging it implies some strategy to come out of it other wise you wouldn't. Lol I don't even know why I am defending the hedgers I don't even hedge myself.

Hedging vs Stop Loss

So let me see if I am understanding you correctly, you think that spread size is the only thing that separates a good broker from a bad one. Lol I hope not because that would be the joke of the century, I am really curious, do you think that's all ...

Hedging vs Stop Loss

You're missing the point all together, Trading is all about compromise. The best broker in town might have the worst spreads, so what are you going to do? go to the crappy one with good spreads? and what about taking a trade on a pair that has ...

Hedging vs Stop Loss

it's not pretending anything, on a weekly timeframe with a small lot, and big moves the difference between 1 or 3 pips can be cents, cents. Last month I was in the same place you were arguing a hedge vs SL black and white but I came to realize that ...

Hedging vs Stop Loss

This is a real pattern that makes money, not a chart pattern a money moving pattern. If 3 currencies are being bought this period more than the last period, at a higher rate than what they were being bought than before against the USD which is also ...

Do you believe this market is random?

If someone is hedging on bigger timeframes with smaller lots then the difference between 1 or 3 pips is peanuts. The argument also falls apart when you cannot determine if a trader would make the same mistakes hedging or stoploss because you cannot ...

Hedging vs Stop Loss

Hahah take it easy Simon today is not a trading day, it should be more mellow, there are no positions in red or green today.

Hedging vs Stop Loss

Truth be told from where I am sitting and with the information that can be gotten from forex, a "trend' doesn't really matter much in the grand scheme of things. It's just a big imbalance in buying vs Selling that's all it is. The same rules apply ...

Do you believe this market is random?

I checked out the milipede and it is something else, and it's things like that coupled with my own unorthodox way of trading that opened my eyes to the idea that there are more than one ways to skin a cat. anyway may the pip be with you.

Hedging vs Stop Loss

You can demo to find out how to properly size your account with you broker, and the leverage you are going to use is not advisable for someone who is starting out, 50:1 is the best between performance and account protection or even less depending on ...

Calculating Lot Size - Help Required!

Adal that's a good result, but there is one thing that cannot be coded and that is human behavior. A person may trade very differently using hedging vs stoploss, and we are human after all, so when the math is done, a traders finger is still left to ...

Hedging vs Stop Loss

Sometimes I have to laugh. This is trading we are talking about here, this is not math class, a traders mental state can be a major part of his down fall, when it comes to math I am strict as they come, heck my entire trading style is all math, I ...

Hedging vs Stop Loss

Lol hey what can I say, I have been working on that one for weeks

Do you believe this market is random?

That's the same thing I said. If you truly believe the market is random then you are merely gambling. Blackjack might be seen as gambling too until you learn to count cards and that's when the big bucks come in. The market is like blackjack, but ...

Do you believe this market is random?

I know fully well what he is saying, spydy I don't hedge I take my losses and move on. It's not a matter of if it can be done, because it can. The better question to ask is "is it more efficient to hedge or stoploss" and no hedging is less efficient ...

Hedging vs Stop Loss

The last hedge I did I can't even remember, but I am telling you from knowledge what I did. The Market moved against me 10 pips going short and triggered the hedge, and it went down for about 50 pips, the next day buying came and the market went ...

Hedging vs Stop Loss

I don't think you understand how it's done. Being flat is the whole point, when you are flat you have literally frozen the trade, and if you close both successfully you have saved the first trade. The reason why It's so tricky is that it takes time, ...

Hedging vs Stop Loss