You are referring to margin not leverage. You have a lot to learn

Is $100,000 A Decent Capital In Trading?

He is stating your assumption of profit is hindsight and he is spot on. Looking back and what could have been is never beneficial. I could have thrown 1 buck a point in 2008 crash selling eurjpy and made 37k,but I didn't. All hindsight shows is ...

How can I stop myself from closing trades early?

I don't trade like others here, I have a very tight trade management process that means I often cut trades only to see them go on. I have however come to realise, when I try hold trades for longer, my monthly result is worse. The point is you can ...

How can I stop myself from closing trades early?

Leverage allows a small account to trade the same size as a large account. To state that it is no different can only mean one thing, you are trading small with high leverage. This is the only scenario it is no different. When markets are normal a ...

Is $100,000 A Decent Capital In Trading?

Leverage = debt, and more of it you have the greater exposure you have to risk. When markets get very volatile, leverage is the bit that kills trading accounts. So you might think its better having capital free to do other things, when the shit hits ...

Is $100,000 A Decent Capital In Trading?

Before thinking you have a problem, do yourself a favour. Run 2 accounts side by side with one allowing it to run more and the other doing what you do now. The results might surprise you.

How can I stop myself from closing trades early?

I don't get the hype over leverage. I can happily extract good profit each month on 30:1

Is $100,000 A Decent Capital In Trading?

Most traders following a strategy that focuses on range I.e Fibs Pivots Oscillators Would have been taken to the cleaners over the last couple of weeks. The fx market has been in a rut in terms of volatility compared to years ago. The last 2 weeks ...

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Hey everyone Just to let you know I have reached out to Twee and will be switching over to a commercial account in the next couple of weeks. If you are wondering why. I spent a great deal of time searching for a fundamental analysis platform I can ...

Trading news and sentiment

Hey Ronnie Tradingeconomics.com Investing.com Forexlive.com Actionforex.com Bloomberg Reuters

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First lesson in filtering out useless analysis articles is to shove all the ones that have "could, might, and would" into the shit pile. Anything that predicates analysis on assumption will contain these and you don't want to be making trading ...

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The data last week was bad, not good and if you are referring to NFP then your analysis has left a pretty significant detail out. The fed are not worried about employment, and even though the job number was good, a best on expectations, what isn't ...

Volume Leads Price - VSA and Wyckoff

South african parliament just like that one url

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I'm not a scalper either but take what I can get, no fussiness here.

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I'll take 20 pips all day long, just one example (the first I grabbed) same thing on cad where we have an 80 pip move. Are you saying if you had an event that would produce 20 pips you wouldnt bother because it's just 20 pips?

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US CPI worse than expected - just a "formality" and not important (pre-programmed in of course)

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programmed direction before news - hilarious. 2 weeks ago China\US trade deal was assumed to be in the bag, last week that all changed and markets have been shitting ever since - was that preprogrammed too (hahahahaha). Please do keep the comedy ...

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Either you are naive or poorly educated on the subject, do these news events look like formalities to you given the price movement after the event? image wrong, and I am not saying this because I want an argument I am saying this because I have ...

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Do you think all the banks that move markets are looking at charts to make trading decisions? Let me put it another way, do you believe banks are risking hundreds of millions every day by looking at nothing more than historical prices? Do you think ...

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will do, i haven't forgotten about any of you, will be in touch in the coming weeks

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