Good job on cancelling since it went the other way. Could you share a screenshot of the Volume increase that would clearly signal a buy? And maybe explain it to me. Sincerely your number one fan.

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If you are new, or trading larger lots, or have a slow broker or are in a country with slow internet, I would advise entering atleast 10 seconds before, so that your system has enough time to enter stoplosses etc if it needs to

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0 % luck

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Closed, maybe it's premature. 20 pips -5 pips=15 pips total Cause for concern 8 pip spread at one point on gbpjpy, I got lucky

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Hello Gorraf, I sort of have the same problem with you I know what I want, example below with x axis Hour of the day from start to finish, and y axis, the number of times. So it would be a bar chart not a histogram unless y changes to percentages. ...

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It doesn't seem like the majority of traders on ff won. I am also one of those losers. Apparently that Fed speech 15 mins before made things unpredictable . Tough few trades

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vvFish, how did you favor the news would be negative for CAD? did you do research beforehand? I can see by your tight take-profit you did not expect much of a downward move

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markets are savage, so are the spreads on oil atleast for me. You know, whipsaws can be profitable, small tp's and large sl. LOL but really, if one could predict a whipsaw, it would be quick profit.

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Oh right I thought that was a buy. So hold on, you are basing your news trading based off of the volume analysis. This despite the move being only a direct result of the news reports. I understand a sudden shift in price prior to news means that an ...

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Why was your eu stoploss so tight on the minimum rate. Also how did you get stopped out? when it went up and I assume you used pending orders, it didn't whiplash downwards, continued up

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Hello Gorraf, if you have time, perhaps you could consider trying out this old idea from post #12 to the Problemsolving_HMSR indicator ►Perhaps a complex thing to add, in addition to manual input of U & D permutations, perhaps an option that allows ...

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Thankyou

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image USDCAD will this conitinue? image

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GUys, the rate was .5% yet USDCAD went up. In the past when this occurred, it would go down. ie Cad got stronger. So why in this case did the CAD get weaker with the same result? was it the IVEY PMI?

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Well played, the one time I dont straddle, its a clean opposite move. You are either an insder trader or your volume analysis is reliable

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I understand what you mean, if there is a large move like that it means a large financial institution with its millions of dollars of investment into forecasting predict that the price will go that way, a large portion of the time, it's right I must ...

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That is the longest whip Ive seen on this news announcements, like 22 pips seriously wow. I mean if it were a huge announcement I would be okay. I didn't straddle this, i bought on the low of the 28th minute and the high of the 29th minute, felt ...

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I have actually and been utilizing the graphs to the fullest. Ever since you suggested that I've started following haha. Speaking of the GDP Manufacturing coming up sometimes doesn't respond for until the second minute. The chances of whiplashes are ...

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Not really any profit targets, its just most of the time, for this articular news event, there was only a 20 pip move. so I was hoping to catch the the last 10 pips, okay I said I wouldn't put an early tp next time but I can't remember why. I think ...

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My trade, lucky enough to have entered hours earlier... I did not profit from the news spike, I was trading the price action, ,y stop loss there got triggered. I only survived this trade because of my early entry, the spread for me at one time was ...

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