Day 21 — I lost about 35 pips in some difficult price action from 9:00am-1:00pm EST. The trend was down throughout the entire European session and for some reason decided to reverse throughout the U.S. session. There was a particular short of ...

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

I appreciate the peek at your business plan... — Thanks. If you don't mind me asking... Are you in the Tampa Bay area? I'm in Florida myself.

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Of changing methods... — I read everything I could find on FF this week-end, about statistical arbitrage, triangular arbitrage, and short time frame scalp systems. It doesn't seem that there are any "arb" opportunities if you are running ...

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

Day 20 — Today, was about 8 pips profit from 12:30pm to 1:30pm EST. No news today, it was quiet and slow this afternoon. So... 20 trading days have passed. That's approximately one usual month's worth of efforts. Where does my account stand? ...

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

Sunday evening... — After the Australian open I closed the EUR/USD trade for about 14 pips profit. There is much debate about the possible weakness of the dollar, oil higher, possible higher U.S. stock market (lower dollar) but...if there was ...

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

my post in the EUR/USD thread... — This was my post from last week, when I was up late one evening. Feb 28 12:44am EST Price had closed around the 1.605 level that week-end (last week-end). Perhaps I sub-consciously wanted to "take a stance" ...

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

Day 19 — Late start, about 12:30pm EST. Lost about 4 pips on two trades, spread was wider than usual, 1.2 pips versus the usual 0.9 pips. Then I got caught short EUR/USD at 1.5998... took a 20 pip loser on that. I reversed and am currently ...

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

A quote from Acumen... — I was thinking about this today, but I couldn't remember where I saw/heard it... I found it in his original thread- url This is posted as a reminder for myself.

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

Day 18 — I traded 8AM to about 12:15PM EST. The volatility in the morning is crazy compared to the afternoon. It's very hard to keep losses small manually. (2-3 pips). I started with momentum scalping, made a couple pips. Then things start ...

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

Nice Results! — Well done! I'm struggling a bit myself this week. Initially, you had said you were concentrating on CHF/JPY, but it seems you look at other possibilities. Care to share a short list of which pairs you watch for opportunity?

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Cool Article... — Yes, it seems so. Now, how do I convince Deutsche Bank that they "need" me?

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This is the best factual real world feedback I've seen on this... — "So far the proposal has met with fierce resistance, both by forex dealers and individual traders who are concerned about the leverage ratio. " "But the leverage piece of the ...

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My new trade filter... — I've adopted something different. After watching and not trading yesterday... I examined the 1 min charts "stress free". I really am trying to mold myself into a momentum high win% scalper. Today, was my first day in ...

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

Day 17 — I thought about changing my position size down for a long while last night, as I said I would do in my previous post. I decided against it. The rationale being that it seems I would allow myself to trade full size while gambling with ...

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

Confused also... — Interested in your scalping system, but as of this moment your MyFxbook account equity is at a negative balance slightly, $49,777. You have 12 lots of EUR/USD at an avg loss of about 200 pips. Your average winner is 4.42 ...

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Reducing my Trade Size for the Week. — Given the nature of my loss of control, I'm reducing my trade size by 75% for the rest of this week (through Friday). I'm going with one half a mini or 5,000 units of EUR/USD, max stop loss set at 10 ...

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

Day 16 — I started after midnight during the Asian session. I was placing my pivot points and took a couple trades. I removed my stop on the second trade...weird things were happening. I ended up taking two larger losses (larger than my ...

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

Day 15 Part 2 — Basically, I was looking for areas that were overbought with some exhaustion/stalling in the price to capture quick shorts. Started with 2 winning trades, but it never got any better. Thirteen trades, down almost 19 pips. Up ...

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

Day 15 Part 1 — I swear the 5 min TF trend "check" gets me into more trouble than anything. I sat down about 12:00pm EST. EUR/USD is near the S2 pivot. I wanted to trade smaller targets and boost my win% somewhat today. Here's how it looked on ...

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

Cool... — Nice ! I like Oanda as well. I'm still trying to firm up some rules to keep me out of "trouble" on these kind of trades. Your advice is pretty solid - "A nice, smooth signal is ideal, be picky. Place an entry order at a price better ...

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