Interested in your methods — Hopefully you haven't given up on your journal. I use something similar for small time frames and a 2:1 risk:reward, counter-trend. Perhaps you could use www.myfxbook.com to track your trades and let us peek into ...

Volatility Exploit

from my simple perspective... — from my very simple perspective... 1. supposedly hedge funds are as short as they have ever been.... 2. every second-rate analyst this week-end and last week-end has written an article about their long-term ...

EURUSD

Day 14 — I watched the EUR/USD from 12:30pm EST to 3:00pm EST. This may be the last day of the February month for MyFxBook stats, I'm up 5.9%, unless I try to trade this upcoming Sunday evening Asian Open. I missed a few trading days in ...

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

Day 13 — I sat down around 12:00PM EST, the 5 min trend was downward. I took 3 losses trying to short an up move around that time, trying to catch a slowing momentum. After that I decided to try to go with the buyer(s), lost 8 pips chasing and ...

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

Forex Factory — Though you may not find the "holy grail" while sifting through all the posts here at Forex Factory, you will find a community that is often experiencing all the joy and pain that you yourself must go through. Random things that ...

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

Day 12 — I sat down around 11:00 AM EST, I knew Bernanke and Geitner were speaking today...my intention was to avoid as much volatility as possible. My first trade was at 11:50 AM and within 16 minutes I had closed 4 losing trades in a row. I ...

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

On a lighter note... — Check out this thread of "trading posters" created by our own members- My favorite two follow... url

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

Changes — I don't want to make any "method" changes until the 30 journaled trading days are finished. Yes, sometimes my 8 pip stop-loss feels way too tight. Yes, sometimes I want to put on a larger position. Though lately, I have felt no ...

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

A word on results... — You can't get wrapped up in your short term results. There are fluctuations and always will be. The best thing you can do is to keep doing the right things over and over again. The results will take care of themselves. ...

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

Day 11 — Unfortunately, I am distracted about things I want to get completed (non-trading activities) before work this evening. I sat down at about 11:00AM EST and finished at 11:45AM EST. My first trade of the day was stopped out at max loss, ...

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

(sigh) — I own the book as well, it is interesting and most of the book is about the "turtle system", money management, and system testing and development. The alternative money management that the "turtles" used was tailored to their trend ...

A trader's edge - myth or reality?

Day 10 — I traded from 10:00AM to about 3:45PM EST. Today was very exhausting. Perhaps I was trying to trade for larger moves, and we were ranging most of the day. I had a sequence of eight losing trades in a row today. Not all the trades were ...

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

I respect your views... — I was hoping that you would say that your profits, from my proposal of flat betting, would turn out to be the same. I respect your view, though I don't agree. That's what makes our community great. Hopefully, I will ...

anti-martingale by Lauriston Livermore

For Tiago- Your position sizing has nothing to do with your edge. Flat bet it, taking what becomes your full position during the times that you scale in, and obviously adjust the price to the average price of the scaled position... see if you do ...

anti-martingale by Lauriston Livermore

There are definitely days of correlation... — You definitely have some days of correlation, but be careful of "trapping" yourself into the thought that the Dow leads the Euro or something of that nature. You can watch Futures, if you have ...

DOW index correlation check all USD pairs

Where/When I lose money... — I can tell you my two worst trading weaknesses. I can tell you because in addition to using a tracking site like url , I also keep a spreadsheet for the year with notes. 1. Removing or moving my stop-loss. This ...

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

Good stuff... — I "googled" her and found her homepage... then clicked on her professional biography. A quote from there: " In addition, she identified order clustering as a potential source of the predictive power of certain strategies." So ...

A trader's edge - myth or reality?

Day 9 — I started at about 10:00AM EST. Again, like yesterday we were between the central pivot and S1, the 5 min TF trend was downward. I only did two trades today. After my trades, as we approached the European close (10:30-11:00AM), the 5 ...

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

...not meaning to quote Market Wizards endlessly — "Today, Bruce Kovner may well be the world's largest trader in the interbank currency and futures markets." -from Jack Schwager, published 1990. That was 20 years ago, and Kovner did start in ...

Who are the top best Forex traders in world??

Had to run to work... — I'm glad you found that article, because I was trying to turn find/recall what I had read and in what thread it was, with no luck. In response to Dr Zeus' curiosity, I did find some other supporting evidence that the ...

A trader's edge - myth or reality?