Part 2 continued Prop Desk style traders (also known as Momentum traders) The people who trade this style don't (usually) have the funds to be able to trade in a Hedge style like the big Banks, though some may trade this way because: A). They are ...

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Hi Gauer, If you are a current Sharp Edge student or subscriber then you can find the majority of Ray's videos in the CompassFx Sharp Edge Members area. But not all of the thousands of videos have been preserved - many of the early ones were of a ...

Institutional Equivalent Education?

Some caveats to my post above about Commercials: 1. Although higher yield for Sovereign bonds is generally supportive of higher Forex rates, this is only true for the Major Currencies. A higher yield on South African/Brazilian/Argentinian/Thai ...

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Part 2 continued Commercials and Hedgers The actions of the big Commercials and Hedgers seem to mystify most retail traders, but They aren't really so strange. The biggest problem that we have is that because of their sheer size most of them move ...

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Some of The Sharp Edge Self Help Group ( which I run for free) have been laughing about this crazy video. This guy typifies why retail traders deserve to lose money! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZxXkscCrHM Some observations: 1. He is trading ...

Why Retail Traders DESERVE TO LOSE Money

Part 2A continued... So lets make that diagram in the previous post a little more realistic and also reveal something many don't know about MarketMakers..... Here's the diagram again image The Market Maker could also place Orders in the Limit ...

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Part 2A... Howe different styles of Trading use different forms of Relative Value. Retail Traders: Most retail traders are either pure gamblers or they use the probability of success in either Price Action, or Indicators or a combination of both. ...

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Part 2 of my answer: How do institutional Traders decide to Enter and Exit their trades: Actually many/most retail traders use this too although they may not think of it that way. It is VALUE. Back when I first came across Ray De Medici at CompassFX ...

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Part 1A .... I hesitated about including this piece because it is something that I really only understood after Ray taught it. However other people have talked about it in somewhat different terms. 4. Liquidity Hunters (also called Stop Hunters, or ...

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I got these questions via a personal message. There is no way i could reply via a PM (even if I was not severely limited on use of PMs by ForexFactory), so I plan to reply here in this thread, though it will take several posts.: ...

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When 'Obvious' expectations are wrong continued from previous post... image image image image image Opportunity exists at the places where a lot of people get it WRONG. So when you sense a sudden shift in the market sentiment... that ...

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A good email from Lance Beggs (of Your Trading Coach) because no matter how good our analysis, sometimes we are bamboozled by the markets due to being unaware of the bigger players current game-plan: ...

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Today I've been alerted to an unfortunate situation. In energyexch.com which is a FF associated site, a Sharp Edge student has been complaining about the posts of another Sharp Edge Student. The complainor has PM'd me to request that I prevent (not ...

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re-entries continued from previous post ... image image image image image Consider this - I could lose on my next four to five re-entry trades and I'd still be in front. Edge doesn't require that you win on every trade. There will be ...

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OK, back to trading. Ray like many other mentors teaches that when you take a Sop-Out, if the trade is still valid (usually both Value, Price Action and Volume where Ray is concerned), then you should look for the next valid entry. Non-Disclosure ...

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Micro Index Futures

No apologies for going off topic. Off topic, but how about instead of just making money from it. Why not help by joining international volunteer group to stop the Covid-19 outbreak? See this Twitter thread: url They have a group Slack workspace, ...

Trading fx fundamentals

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Trading news and sentiment

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Trading news and sentiment with technical analysis

No apologies for going off topic. Off topic, but how about instead of just making money from it. Why not help by joining international volunteer group to stop the Covid-19 outbreak? See this Twitter thread: url They have a group Slack workspace, ...

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