Hi fti my friend, Recently lurking more than anything. Not so well in the market (is it for me?). But didn't give up yet. Maybe I am too stubborn to do it, maybe I am sowing for later harvest. Good to see you back and well.

Technical Analysis Fallacy

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, by John Perkins, is great stuff! One has only to be careful not to be turned into some kind of "left wing freak" (because, obviously, left wing has no solution to anything). There is nothing wrong with capitalism. ...

Technical Analysis Fallacy

My idea, for whatever it is worth: just 4 rules: 1) Each participant sets up a TE of his live account (same starting date, account balances not too far apart); 2. Each participant trades whichever way he likes; 3) Contest period: not too short (from ...

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Hi Mr.He, Do you have anything against setting up a trade explorer of your trades? It is extremely quick and easy.

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I'll risk throwing in my two cents.. I believe market makers don't spend anything because they can triangulate, moving the price around to wherever they want at zero cost. If three of us retailers try to do this we go to prison but on the other ...

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Upfront monthly fee = scam. Period. JMHO.

Prop firms offering retail traders trading accounts -Risk free

Yes, again and again, on desktop and laptop. Resetting the browser did not solve.

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Hi, Interesting thread. I believe Myfxbook, FxBlue and MQL5 are fine but how about including FF Trade Explorer? Even better, I think PsyQuation is the best trade auditing resource available. I would suggest also ruling out martingale, ...

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Hi Jest, I feel like a pre-impact dino lurking here, lol. Hope you'r doing fine.

Technical Analysis Fallacy

I subscribe to these beliefs (maybe a bit less to the cockroach part, lol). Peace.

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If I had money to throw away I would open 2 accounts with the same balance, set up 2 trade explorers and ask: "Hey guys, please grow it or blow it!" (and please keep your mouths shut, lol).

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?!? Wrong thread?

Technical Analysis Fallacy

You've got a point here. When your stop is hit you lose money and somebody wins (your bucket shop broker, the market maker, whoever). But maybe they really don't need to care about stop clusters, just keep their books healthy. As long as retail ...

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I agree that pending orders are not that important but heavily clustered open positions and stops may be targeted at by market makers if they know where they are.

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Isn't it possible that brokers hand their internal orderbook information to market makers? On the other hand, even if this is true I don't know how a retailer could get access to that data other way than hacking. Very obscure subject for me, hard to ...

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Only if you know (or have a better guess of) what the market is going to do at the limit order level. But do we? I believe that guessing what the market is going to do at some time into the future is even harder than guessing what it is going to do ...

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IMHO a Trade Explorer is the best solution. Simple, esay to set up and reliable.

TRADING CONTEST: Party 1 (FractalFreak) VS Party 2 (redoktober

If short targets are hit, it may be time to go long. But I believe that depends on the new bias.

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So footprints of SM activity do show up in the charts ... not easy but possible to spot ...

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Yes, great target, but not before stopping me out twice!! Thought about it but didn't have the balls to jump in again. What a dumb trader I am!

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