Emotions leave "footprints" in price action....not price levels, the action itself...

How to Become Emotionless

1. How many futures contracts have you traded? 2. Which broker did you trade them through? 3. What are their fees for your trading?

Breaking News: CFTC charges FXCM with undercapitalization

Hmm...figuring this message may never get read, but, yes, I've been doing that for a year or so now. Very handy. First step is to create a watchlist. Then use custom fields in that watchlist to track the parameters you'd like to track. From there ...

TOS (Thinkorswim by TDAmeritrade) programming

How about "if price is below 20 make the average red, if above make it green"?

ThinkorSwim platform - MA to change colour when hit by price

Yep - he was a good boy and passed it along Mr. Scott Glad to meet finally C!!! Good times - looking forward to the next one!!

Mr. Scott's Crayon Thread

It doesn't involve hedging unless you get it wrong and hold on for too long. Adding hedging adds a whole new set of issues. If you're not knowledgeable enough to trade without a stop, you shouldn't hedge imo. Trading without a stop loss and hedging ...

Trading without stop-losses

If you're over leveraging, sure, it will only take that 1 time...

Trading without stop-losses

Given consideration to futures via thinkorswim? (came into the same conclusion with "CHFgate"...retail forex is a scam imo....from my own research my opinion is that retail FX brokers merely mark up or mark down a futures pricing stream in their own ...

Currency Scan

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Cable Update (GBPUSD)

these pips are partyin' like it's....2008....

Cable Update (GBPUSD)

there's not a lot of rocket science involved in doing the math. I've put the time in to understand exactly what it really takes to crap an account out if you're being responsible with your position size. It's not hard math and it's quite revealing ...

Trading without stop-losses

It's entirely possible to have been on the wrong side of the CHF quagmire and not be subjected to a margin call. Just do the math.

Trading without stop-losses

didn't even have to waste a nano second on that...

If you haven't made it yet, what makes you think you will?

heh...thanks JMN - "frustration" isn't exactly what came to mind...lol

If you haven't made it yet, what makes you think you will?

Would you just go play in traffic on a high speed interstate and take Mingray with you? Or...maybe just find a pink room loaded with flowers and plenty of tissues to contain your needless whining?

If you haven't made it yet, what makes you think you will?

Wisdom. Pure. Wisdom. Hat tips to you dkrock.

If you haven't made it yet, what makes you think you will?

Yes. smaller positions. If you're losing that much, your trading volume is too high in correlation with your account balance.

Trading without stop-losses

this is doable via excel also. Not to discount having that info directly in the platform at all....just meant as a friendly suggestion if you know your way around excel or openoffice sheets (assuming that's still workable with MT5...did it some time ...

Avg. Price / Exposure

Overnight finance operations for a few banks

What's the job title when working as a retail forex trader?