another thought — Another though is , I want to know that when it breaks, it breaks hard. I think it was PC who said the best ones are the trades with NO pullback. If that is the case, the furthest I want to see pullback is to the breakout ...

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no idea — with that GBPUSD trade today I still picked up a total of 120 pips, so that was a net profit of 100 pips. HOWEVER, due to the dibs method of halving profits at 1:1, the actual profit in $ was above break even after the two trades. ...

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shorted Gu — Yeah, I was in that short, I also got fried but I reversed. Starting to feel under the weekly open is arbitrary, has no baring on the trade. What I do think is more important is we look at the trend on the weekly or daily, and see ...

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Hmmm — That was a good question, I missed the first drop , I wasnt at home yet. The next buy wasnt taken as it was below the weekly and I am looking for shorts. What ever my broker says as the weekly open...

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weekly open — Try adding the weekly open as well, and understand that buying when price is BELOW the weekly open is riskier. ALso I use the 20sma on the daily to understand where price is trading in relation to a rolling working month. that is ...

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qld, bannana ban — excellent, now, the rules are scattered around, is there a condensed PDF form one? If not then I will try collate everything in here into a one page rules outline.

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London session — everyone Not to interfere with this thread or change anything, a simple yes or no will do. Anybody trading this on London Euro session? I live in Sydney9and work fulltime) so I just cannot trade Asia session so if not then ...

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money4nothing — are you trading purely IB breaks? Not filtering it as per the DIBS method? Just curious. Also how long have you been doing this for? I actually like your idea on using only a pair or two, that way you will get the feel for that ...

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Guys, can we stick to DIBS — Can we stick to DIBS trades and not troubleshooting an EA to drawing lines and alerts? Posting screen shots and your analysis will help us learn DIBS better, things like why you think what pair is a hot hand etc ...

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personally I care — Read this, a great post by Billy Ray Valentine. Perhaps it will help answer your question (or perhaps not, either or its a good read). url

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USDCAD — Hmmm, got a feeling things are going to be flat. Shorted USDCAD entry:1.2141 SL: 1.2444 - STOPPED OUT, Stop and reverse. Entered long @ 1.2444 Reentry at 1:1, closed half position "free" trade, stopped out.

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lit room for of traders and sales — It's a large floor full of traders on various desks (example, FX spot, fx forwards, Rates, Swaps, Equities, Prop trading ,arbitrage) and each desk has sales people for their desk. I do see indicators and ...

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gnomefan — Why dont you try trade DIBS naked first (i.e. without the indicator?) so you understand the processes?

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DIBS trade USDCAD — Nice USDCAD setup, traded early London session (about 8:30gmt or thereabouts) Price: 1.2229 SL: 1.2205 Closed position at 1.2334(wasn't happy about S/R line but hey it was good returns...) If you wondering about the short, ...

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anybody — Jarroo, housetrade, dale warfare, you guys still around or left this thread?

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Dibs on GU? — I traded long GU on Dibs. daily downtrend line was broken, above 20 sma. For Dibs trade opening 6am London time 1 hour GU broke. Entry : 1.4841 SL : 1.4794 I didnt like the stall, was uneasy at +30, closed half position moved SL ...

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Oanda — Cosgrove, Apparently you can create a sub account in oanda and then you can take a trade in the same pair as your primary account but in the opposite direction. try it out in demo and see if that helps

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its a kiwi — So, we have the tri-nations in this room, Saffa (ex pat) kiwi and ozzie

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for sure, keep in contact. Will look at it tomorrow — Time to set TP and SL and go to sleep, 6 hours sleep is not fun.

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Massive newbie here — No correlation trading here, but listen to vangelis and Diane Arkenstone. Relaxing. I have only been learning about trading for the last 18 months, and only started focusing on it about a total of 6 months. So no, nothing ...

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