@parisboy -- when I see there's a post from you I now cringe -- it's no fun. Always the same thing, yet no humor. I've seen some "movement" in others, but not you. At least @skyway does some bobbing and weaving to avoid getting hit. And, to his ...

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@BlackStack -- again, an exaggeration, to make a point. But you get the point I was trying to make, right?

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Nice -- thank you. And what about the bird shit? How do I code that?

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@moodybot -- could you please share the source code...

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@skyway -- I know. You've been civil -- though annoyingly persistent...

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@TopCover -- well, first you have to put up with 10 to 15 minutes of being lectured what a noob you are. And then @George goes into information overload mode showing you many examples. I don't recall details -- but the pictures remain in my head. ...

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@BlackStack -- what I meant is that 99 out of a hundred candles have minimal effect on my position (or my account). And, then, one candle comes along and not only kills my trade but takes a chunk of my account with it. ONE candle. That ONE candle ...

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Hey @skyway -- glad to see there's still some fight left. Did I ever say this is new? How many times have I acknowledged I'm a rookie? How would I know if something were new or not? You're still fighting with @George, but using my thread to do so. ...

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EX-scientist -- no more. But some habits die hard... Well -- I hope you have a comfortable chair to wait in. That could take awhile...

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I'll take dimmer -- it's certainly preferable to OFF.

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Okay -- I can live with that.

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I don't think it works like that -- the MM doesn't enter orders. I'm waving my arms now because, obviously I don't know. But, conceptually, I imagine that at some very high level the MM has ultimate control over how orders are transacted (since it ...

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Yes -- exactly!!! And what about that other 5%? It's the 5% we've been talking about all this time. You guys have blinders on. It's the 5% price variations that kill us. This is part of the MM's psychology. They know that fellows like yourselves ...

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@BlackStack -- I know. I was exaggerating and testing you to see if I could get away with it. I'm not really the guy to carry on this type of discussion. I'd rather just work on coding and drawing lines on a chart. I'll leave the intellectual / ...

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@BlackStack -- my point is this. A spike has a disproportionate affect -- much greater than any other price movement. It grabs buckets of cash on one side or the other of a target level. Other price movements do not grab buckets of cash. Your ...

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That's the way it works when you sell used cars. In the case of forex I suspect it is more cut-throat and "fair" is not part of the vocabulary. No offense to any Russians here -- Vladimir Putin runs a very large country, and I don't think his #1 ...

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Okay -- now you're pushing the envelope (pun intended for @parisboy) of my trading knowledge. I'm a simple BUY, SELL, StopLoss, TakeProfit type of guy. Perhaps someone else could follow-up on these points.

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BlackStack -- don't you see the spikes that appear out of nowhere and touch exactly target level linesdrawn manually or by an indicator? No -- not necessarily. Because in a sea of 1000's of data points, the occasional spikes get diluted and don't ...

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@parisboy -- good questions -- I suspect we're all in the same boat. We all know you have opinions, and we all know what they are since you repeatedly state them in various ways. I'm not sure that anyone at our level can precisely define who and ...

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