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Holy Cow replied Jul 20, 2012I think that both R:R ratio and hit rate are important but I do not think it cannot be quantified this way. First of all there is day trading, medium term swing trading and trend trading. I think Skynet you are a medium term trader while I trade ...
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Holy Cow replied Jul 19, 2012I think psychology is a key. Been reading Trend following by Covel and Market Wizards. very inspiring. It's kind of the whole mindset had changed.
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Holy Cow replied Jul 19, 2012btw, outsideof oil, those other 3 positive are all losers that signal was to reverse. very choppy this week. very. on currencies 1 trade stopped and twice closed for smaller loss.
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Holy Cow replied Jul 19, 2012url crossed 1000+ pips on oil. I am actually down 3% this week on commodities, 3 1% losses, my floating equity is bigger but I am not taking it obviously. no signals to take anything. the trend is up. It is home runs I should be looking for. on ...
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Holy Cow replied Jul 19, 2012I definitely take all signals now. got stopped on a 3 futures/commodities trades , reversed too as signal was. oil hit 900 pips today. this is nothing. if everything goes well it might be 3000+ pips. the most important is to know when to take ...
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Holy Cow replied Jul 19, 2012I know this. the best tarde howevr should have been eur/aud. I was watching the pair and then when got signal i shorted it. it was consolidating and after some 200 pips moved towards my be stop. I close dit 50 pips away form the stop. the stop was ...
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Holy Cow replied Jul 19, 2012If you are trading from the D chart you always want to know the direction of the overall W chart to get your bigger picture bias then at least you will know if you are entering in line with the main trend or on a retracement of it. Please look at ...
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Holy Cow replied Jul 18, 2012The thing is I have no targets and I am not doing any research on fundamentals, nor I use trend lines to enter trades now. I do like when signal is along weekly trend but will take it against weekly trend too. We never know where the market gonna go ...
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Holy Cow replied Jul 17, 2012considering what I see taking partial until trend shows weakness doe snot make sense. I had winners form 3 to 7 R:R to 1 and cause was closing parts too early have not earned what i should ahve. so, all new tardes going let them run until some sign ...
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Holy Cow replied Jul 16, 2012Good post and congratulation for 750 pips
Nice trades. I think it is not in my nature to understand fundamentals. I can use news for trading as I explained in one previous post but I have no understanding of fundamentals. I am not an analytical ...Trend Trading All Pairs
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Holy Cow replied Jul 15, 2012if you see my last round of trades where I went short it was clear why I did. I am not interested in news but rather how markets reacts in certain situations. in this case favorable eur news failed to make new highs. but still, it is just a price ...
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Holy Cow replied Jul 15, 2012Considering what i already know to make sense from all this data and then make pips from it is highly unlikely. Ok, I am technical trader so do not take my words seriously. I believe that price in the now includes all I need to know. I am not being ...
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Holy Cow replied Jul 15, 2012Been around for some time Custos. Not a few months. However it is not my style to rely on news. is it yours?
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Holy Cow replied Jul 15, 2012Guys , is anyone making some pips based on all this fundamental data? I just cannot get my head all over this stuff. it seems to me that price is the only thing that matters. it includes everything. IMHO this amount of information can simply ...
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Holy Cow replied Jul 14, 2012ok, according to Hector it should be 4H and 1H, but ok. open 2 windows. one at 4H and another 30M and you can see on both whether 3 ema's are up or down. I wonder why is that people need indicator for everything

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Holy Cow replied Jul 14, 2012but what time frame you are trading from? the main one not the trigger.
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Holy Cow replied Jul 14, 2012Vlad, Hector's set up is actually very simple. 3 ema's cross in one direction they start spreading wider as trend develops. once the high of the move made you set Fibs, check swings highs/ lows , round numbers, draw trend line when it develops and ...
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