Possible Solutions.... — Try to find a "good" part-time (25-30 hours) per week job, that covers your living expenses. Obviously, you want this geared towards the evenings so that you can have the daytime free to trade. With that, and I realize ...

Realistic ROI and Account Size

May Results... — On May 6, after revenge trading, swinging wildly in a wildly swinging market, I had a balance of $500.69. The “Flash crash” happened later that day. I had stopped trading at 10:00am thankfully. Since then, I’ve adopted a more ...

30 Days to Profitable EUR/USD Scalping....

No amount of technical analysis... — No amount of technical analysis will predict: a) low volume price moves b) "large order" price moves c) pre-news, or news moves.

AHA moments in your trading career

Counter Trend Scalping... — Would you like to try to counter-trend scalp the chart below? I had my largest pip loser in 14 days (since my "May Meltdown"). It will also be my first losing day in 9 days, but it's small... less than 1%. Edited: ...

30 Days to Profitable EUR/USD Scalping....

Daily Goal... — Having a daily goal is counter productive. Like the above posters have said, you can't predict what the market is going to give you. I've had periods of doing more than 20 trades per day, even then, a daily goal leads to ...

Your Daily Pip Goal?

Stop running, Alexander Elder, and Scalp Entries... — Today, in the afternoon, with the EUR/USD price ranging a bit between 1.2200, S1 (1.2235), and 1.2250; it was easy to ask yourself.. "If they were to run stops right now, where would price ...

30 Days to Profitable EUR/USD Scalping....

As a former Nasdaq MM and OTC dealer... — Over a decade ago, I worked for a retail brokerage firm on their Nasdaq and OTC trading desks. With the evolution of markets and reduction of costs to trade so many instruments, even intra-day, I DO ...

wonder if u guys played those $0.005 penny stocks

Thoughts... — for Triphop... I'm with you, still a bit skeptical. After examining the article again, I think I've found the weakness. These results were determined from probability models, not actual trades. This particular article relies on a ...

why is everyone so afraid to average down?

Razzle Phenomenon... — That was an interesting read, if thread followers have missed it, please check out Razzle's #32 post .pdf in this thread. "In particular, the double-down strategy, considered risky by some practitioners, gave more than a ...

why is everyone so afraid to average down?

Volatility based position sizing... — I've been struggling with this issue. Lately, I've been trading half sizes in the morning session (more volatile) and then double that in the afternoon. Crude, but... it helped me conquer my fears of wild ...

30 Days to Profitable EUR/USD Scalping....

Congratulations... — $500 to $6000 in 12 weeks is a great success. The absolute first thing you should do now is-- take $4000 out of your account and put it somewhere else far away. trade with $2000, it's still 4x the money you had when you ...

most simple method to achieve big success

It can only help you... — Sounds good. I keep a spreadsheet on my PC with notes for each trading day. It includes info about trades, market conditions, errors, spreads, volatility, etc. For example, I can look back and see if I am generally ...

weekend review?

One link... — Here's one of many links to 1-2-3 setups etc. url Your question is a complex one. The most profitable pattern may not have the highest win percentage. And of course, it depends on the market conditions... these past weeks you ...

easiest and most profitable

A look at the trades overall... — Here's a link to a custom starting date on my original account, with these types of trades. I'm not perfect, sometimes my stoplosses are not perfect. The volatility this past week has been very high. I've ...

30 Days to Profitable EUR/USD Scalping....

Examples... — If everyone is a trend trader, where is the "edge"... Some countertrend examples...

30 Days to Profitable EUR/USD Scalping....

Similar to exhaustion setups... — After much effort and screen watching, I found an indicator which offers trades similar to the exhaustion plays I was watching every tick searching for. I've been trading it for 6 days, through some of the ...

30 Days to Profitable EUR/USD Scalping....

Counter Trend — from "The Way of the Turtle", Curtis Faith... "...over the short term there is generally more movement against a trade taken at a breakout than there is in the direction of the breakout. This is one of the reasons trading ...

30 Days to Profitable EUR/USD Scalping....

I haven't seen anything related to Forex... — I haven't seen anything related to Forex yet, but... it does potentially create the Consumer Financial Protection Agency... as if we don't already have enough regulatory bodies pointing fingers and ...

US Senate sweeping proposal to reform Wall Street

For reference... — Yes Hanover, you are right. I'm sorry, I did have it incorrect in that example! Edited my post #31 in this thread. The article I was paraphrasing from is here. (link below) Long read. Near the bottom is the example similar ...

why is everyone so afraid to average down?

Looks very interesting... — Interesting, I haven't heard of this company before. but... I have some worries.... I can't find any performance for this "private fund" that Earik Beann, creator of Wave59, supposedly manages. That bothers me a ...

Reverse engineering "Hive Technology"