The only thing that matters. — Management.

Why do 99% of the people who wants to be traders fail?

Failure? — Emotions.

Why do 99% of the people who wants to be traders fail?

How could you be a pro, and be in the 95%??

Which is True about forex traders?

Market? — What market are you scalping?

How many scalps a day??

Scalps! — The most trades I've made in a day was around 90 trades, from 930-around 2pm. I lost 2700 dollars! But the plus side was 2970 dollars..(200ish net P) crap numbers! But I ended in the plus for the day... I was trying out a scalping ...

How many scalps a day??

Conversations.. — Right, but what went in to creating those mechanical systems? And what happens when the parameters need to be changed or tweaked because of market conditions? Even the biggest algo systems need to have a trader manage them ...

Mechanical vs. Discretionary

Management — I like this post, in regards to this thread. My personal view here, is somewhat similar to the ideas in the quoted post. Whether you are mechanical or discretionary doesn't really matter, because a good discretionary trader, ...

Mechanical vs. Discretionary

Theory — They're all breakouts, if you understood that method, or even this method theoretically, you'd understand the similarity. But that really isn't needed to profit from either method, I guess. More trader cooler talk .. My apologies ...

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ACD? — Down boy, down.. You? Naww, you're a pro man! But maybe some of the people here might benefit from learning about the ACD system, in conjunction with your system, which is another break out system. url And 1300 posts ..not a ...

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XY — Sure. Any trade will have a quality about it. If your trade takes a couple days to yield a $100 profit, or a few minutes or seconds to yield the same profit, this can give you the quality of a trade. This is one way to do it, amongst ...

How would you lot manage in this situation?

Time — Time allows you to "put a number on it". All setups are based on breakouts, continuations, reversals or pull backs. How long it takes for each or any of these to to occur will determine its quality.

How would you lot manage in this situation?

One more.. — Definitely buy another computer. They're dirt cheap now days. The second one you will have hooked up to at least two of those bad boys for back up, and your records, testing, research.. etc. Take a look at a kvm switch too, might ...

Help with multi monitors?

Probability? — Maybe look for the probability of trade 1 happening compared to how many times trade 2 would happen? Then make your bets higher, based on the higher win rate, vs the size of win (either way)?

How would you lot manage in this situation?

ACD? — This system looks similar to Mark Fishers ACD system, his book is a great read if anyone hasn't heard of him, or the book. url Might add some insight to what's already going on here. Cheers!

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Another Idea.. — My original post for this thread touched on something a little abstract from the main idea of this thread. This quoted post was, IMO, getting to the meat and potatoes of this question. Last night, it popped in my head again, ...

how do you improve patience

Need me some $!!! — Thought this one is fitting.. video

What kind of music you hear while you trade?

Christmas comes early.. — For those who haven't already found this.. url

Best forex and/or trading book you have ever read?

Experts only. — Sounds about right to me.. Good Luck Expert

Interesting - 0 pip spread, Commisions returned on losing trades?

Trading.. — "Exchanges are search engines." Harris fr. Trading and Exchanges One of the most useful books on trading I've ever bought.

Strategies that don't predict future price

Seems a bit over complicated to me, but good luck!

Strategies that don't predict future price