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Poll: Is successful trading more dependent on skill than luck?

Looking Forward — Jacko, First of all, thank you. Your posts are always to the point and very informative. I have searched FF and read most all of your posts, and look forward toward your continued contributions. Do you plan to use this thread ...

Jacko's Forex House of Pleasure and Pain

I am Short as well — Short from 1.2956 on 2/4

EURUSD

No correct answer ... — The best stop loss has too many variables to define in a simple answer. It can be based off of Support and resistance of recent prices, a backtested fixed value for the instrument you are trading ( i.e. 40 pips for ...

What do you think the best Stop Loss is for daily trading? I say...

Never move your stops???? — With this style you are using a margin call as a Stop loss. So if you wanted to add that $1 dollar that would save you from a margin call that would be like moving your stop loss to allow for more Loss. That is a ...

I haven't got a clue!

I do not trade until I have a "ahaaa" moment. The first one must occur after watching the market for a while to get the "Feel" of the instrument (currency pair). ( I currently only trade 2 pairs) Then an "ahaaa" for each and every trade thereafter. ...

What Was Your "Ahaa!" Moment

Sometime coders put in a piece of logic that checks the number of open trades and allows nothing to happen if a certain number is exceeded. Again this is pretty tricky with no source. You will probably have to step thru the code to solve this one. ...

Why an EA works for some currancies and not others?

Great minds think alike ....

Why an EA works for some currancies and not others?

posssible mini issue — the crosses are called different thing on a mini with InterbankFX GBPUSDm vs GBPUSD If the EA uses the instrument in its code the problem may be there

Why an EA works for some currancies and not others?

Ichinoku General Education — A very brief explanation of Ichmuko charts Since I can not post any links as of yet go to www. investopedia. com/ articles/ technical/ 04/ 072104. asp just remove the spaces after the dot and slash Enjoy

The Kinko Method

Correct way to trade Ichimoku ??? — taxgeek, There are a miriad of ways to trade the Ichimoku. Historically the Ichimoku is a charting system that allows the user to analyze (visually) the market condition quickly. One of the primary goals was ...

The Kinko Method

Zone tick — I use a program called Zone Tick (there is a free version) and the clocks change color when each market opens. Qlock is pretty good as well.

Countdown to markets opening

Great post ... — Why Oh Why, I just read the post all the way thru. It looks Like you had a lot of fun with this. I personally enjoyed reading it. I think the thread got so many reads for the same reason there are traffic jams near accidents, ...

I haven't got a clue!

I don't need no stinkin stops!!! lol — Kharvell, I will put some thought into it. The major problem with adding a filter to limit the big loss trades will be allowing the big win trades thru as well. My first thought looks to cripple the ...

The Kinko Method

Nice ... — Very interesting system. I think I will begin forward testing this. And maybe do a little research into these indicators. For the people not familiar with OandA 's platform, I quick question. Isn't Close of Day set by your time zone ...

The Kinko Method

here is a comment... — Sure is a lot of posts for a screen shot.

MEVA machine that makes money

Box what box? — Impressive "thinking outside the box" to get around Mq4's limitations. (i've always wanted to use this smiley)

Tesla's Fancy Shmancy Alerting EA

Don't Panic — Whenever your platform is not behaving like you think it should you should call your broker to find out waht is going on. If trades are involved, then pull up a different data feed (on different platform) so that you can make ...

stuck in postion, please help

Best ?? My favorite at least... — OANDA has best execution that I have experienced. The spreads can get high if the news is unexpected. They are getting better at lowing spreads as the news is digested.

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