Hi Mingary How fast can you blink. Manipulation occurs on order flow and best seen on the M1 chart. Most traders are looking at H1 / H4 to see it. They will see the result of the action but they will miss that crucial second. This is classic ...

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Hi George Can I put my hand up and say I missed it, I stuffed up. Honestly I have no excuse because I follow this pair for hours along with a few other pairs and I was just not paying attention for some reason. I do keep notes on all my trades, ...

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H BWilliam You wrote "that's why I have written umpteen times on this forum NEVER reverse a SPIKE" Mostly I would agree with your statement except when trading on the M1 chart. Here we are trading around the order flow price movement towards passive ...

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Hi Mingary I don't think you get it. You don't need to trade "the real market" to make money but you do need to understand how the sharks manipulate the Retail Forex market. Once you learn their little tricks and see how they run stop pools, making ...

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Hi Al Yes, I watched that move all evening but never took a trade. Of course I am going to tell you what you already know - RED NEWS just before it moved and the range at that point of the day was only around 40% I think. So over all the risk of ...

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Hi Danger-Mouse Here is my 3 cents worth and how I see the market - Price expansion is restricted because the market needs to maintain pools of orders very close to current current order flow. So the act of keeping price with an consolidation area ...

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Hi STrading I never said my equity was not at a decreased value, I said my account balance remains unchanged till I close trades. I use my equity as cheap credit to increase my account balance by adding additional trades to close a basket of trades ...

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If you can win 90% of every trade that you enter, attempting to save those losing 10% seems very smart to me. Why are traders so quick to take the loss. It seems discussions on hedging provokes strong opinions amongst traders, probably deserves ...

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What’s wrong with turning a losing position into a winning any not taking any loss? I think this strategy only works well if the original hedge is less than 20 pips and you can clear it the same trading day. I think hedges that roll over to the next ...

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The purpose is solely for psychology reasons to obtain a winning BASKET on every single position I ever take. It enables me to be aggressive knowing I will never lose when I exit the market. Most times I will just attack the same hedge with ...

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If there was one thing Nih98 said to me was place the hedge and leave the bloody thing alone, don't touch it. So now I am 15 pips in draw down but the equity balance still remains fixed. My goal now is to find another trade that I believe offers a ...

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Hi Danger Mouse Work that problem out and success in this game is guaranteed. I wait for signs of exhaustion when price hits a "stop zone" and trade back through thin liquidity. However if price just keeps on going, I hedge around 15 pips. Then I ...

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If I am a CAT that is wearing boots that break twigs loudly in the forest, I would take the nearest tree. As I am a Cat, I have 8 more lives to live. Thing about survival as a trader

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You shouldn’t have to wait too long for that move Nikl, nice call. I am looking at a even Bigger target down at 128.314 (to be exact) in early May. I have set one of my Algo’s on that spot and told it not to come home without 400 pips ha ha Cheers

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Learn to see the manipulation of the markets as your friend, not a trend.

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Hi xRedStaRx if I can have my 2 cents worth - great post by the way. I feel you are looking on the wrong timeframes to see and understand manipulation. I see it within the order flow, thats on passive orders at the core of the market. I understand ...

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Hi Forrestang You are correct I feel. I believe some traders here are thinking we are talking about trading bots/algorithms that many traders build and apply to the markets both by retail traders and market makers. That would include high frequency ...

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Hi GMD BWilliams asked this, does price determine supply and demand or does supply and demand determine price. Then you ask here are patterns caused by the Algo's actions. Have you ever used a Stirograph and why does it work? It has limitations ...

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Hi bfx17 It actually hit the vacuum 32 times - Yes it is confused Message you

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Sorry Spikehunter George Aus from the thread "Price action at the core / TMA intra day" I haven't meet a trader in 15 years that comes close to his skills.

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