all very great points. take the trading maxim : cut your losses. i'm simply applying the above. had enough. spent more time than i even know. i'm not a trader. tired of bumping into knives in this darkness so i'm just going to sit down and stop ...

Let's be Honest

i truly wish i had never considered trading. i've been hit around by madness too much. i'm going to blow this account, and have fun doing it! after that i fucking give up. edit : yes this is a rage quit, but it's about as honest as i could be after ...

Let's be Honest

i will give you $2 for your system sounds to me like you feel you owe the world something, whereas previously you were only owing yourself profitability. now that you see coin coming in you have satisfied your primary need to be in profit and now ...

Let's be Honest

yep. exactly. unfortunately you have found your Achilles heel. your strategy requires a long trending market. if you could predict that, well, then you could use any strategy you wanted really and just take pot-shots. keep plugging-away. don't make ...

Mechanical Trading

teheh. if i'm bored ya never know... well, seems avg may not be the culprit, but it was time for avg to go anyway (installing it was a true mindfart and i realised only after i finished installing it). seems to be some conflict with admin/non-admin ...

GoMarkets Discussion

nevermind. crazy live support is actually online. will take the advise and see if avg is the culprit. someone must have late nights at go! *and yet, is still extremely pleasant*

GoMarkets Discussion

likely dumb question : has anything happened over the last few months that would cause my laptop to not connect to any go servers? my main pc is currently receiving the feed fine, but my laptop is dead in the water. haven't run the mt4 program on ...

GoMarkets Discussion

i just want to point out that what you are doing is really just a form of elliot wave. you are trying to be too predictive i believe. this will work, until it doesn't.

Price consolidation system: really as easy as counting 1-2-3?

nice. do it again. and then again. and then again. until you have proven to yourself that it wasn't a fluke. usually as soon as you stumble onto something that makes you theoretical money you quickly find that it was pure luck and you can never ...

Mechanical Trading

goddamnit. i'm tired and didn't read your post properly. i now notice you mention you set a stop loss. not having a good time with this right now. you will not be in profit. are you saying that each day a buy or sell will be triggered? in this case ...

Mechanical Trading

Ridiculous Trading Myth : Your exit is simply the reverse signal to your entry.

Ridiculous Trading Myths

demo : you should backtest this yourself. you can't simply ask people about your strategy each time you come up with something. at some point you are going to have to get balls-deep into some charts. vhands is great for what it is once you get it ...

Mechanical Trading

HOLY SHIT! you people have blown more money on trading than i have EVER HAD!

How many real accounts have you blown before consistently making money in FX?

aww, mr secret-pants which leads to a myth i haven't seen listed so far (not that i was paying attention) : a profitable trader will show you his/her edge

Ridiculous Trading Myths

LIKE!

Where do I start with my fx education?

my guess is... spread-bombs when news hits the market / broker feeds and all stops go to stop-heaven along with the dollars riding on them.

Ridiculous Trading Myths

you must keep an eye on the news releases. check the ff calender and look for the reds... that or just keep reading the taf thread as they keep a keen eye on news releases also.

Intraday Point and Figure Trading

2nd time, and won't bother saying it again. this is not a conspiracy thread. this is not a complaints thread.

Misdirections in retail trading / mt4

cool. thanks to those who took this in a completely different direction to the thread title and first page of posts.

Misdirections in retail trading / mt4

nope

Misdirections in retail trading / mt4