Retail feed may* not show everything the HFT market makers do & it's not very clear what level of data are you looking at. If Rags got say the low of the day, you say his limit in that case also crossed spread? *(pretending here that retail data is ...

Is anyone here an institutional trader?

Song about what happened to a retail spot/futures trader going in 10x leveraged with a single limit or market order in HFT market. Once the market went a little bit against, the trader put in a tight stop. Then trader cancelled the stop because the ...

What kind of music you hear while you trade?

4% is quite close to equity/25-30. I have tried to think where this number comes from... 25 is 50/2 .. and 50 is the leverage at some places 30 is a number I heard on documentary about commodities hedging/trading. Some sources mention banks leverage ...

What percentage profit per day IS possible?

There are bunch of computers of course but in aggregate you can think of them as one giant computer. To avoid making the market completely scary, chaotic and untradable for the dumb money that pays broker/dealer's yachts, they don't change the ...

Were you one of the world's best traders trading demo?

My suggestion is to avoid getting retail price improvement when your margin utilization is high. The brokers have small print that allows them to "rehypothecate" your margin collateral. So before you even open a margin position, they are 100% sure ...

Were you one of the world's best traders trading demo?

You didn't explain what you meant by "direction". The market is a computer. Computer does not care about trends, news, fundamentals or time. It processes events in a queue (well multiple parallel queues). So when your retail buy/sell order goes in, ...

Were you one of the world's best traders trading demo?

Just a quick reminder from the first post. So many have found apparently that demo trading is different from live trading and yet as I quoted in previous post "Trading a demo replicates putting on a live trade 100%" ... Yet it sounds like you guys ...

Were you one of the world's best traders trading demo?

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Were you one of the world's best traders trading demo?

I think the market manipulators must have been watching too much this... video Just replace tv with the charts...

Market manipulation behaviours

No doubt this has been posted before... If you like this kind of dance stuff check my posts in member lounge music thread. video

What kind of music you hear while you trade?

Since this is about "truth" I think it's a good place for me to recall some of things I said in past yet have found to be more "depends" than absolutes. -"zero sum game" - penny stock & bucketshops vs bonds or fx through real market -counterparties ...

The simple truth about FX trading

I don't entirely subscribe to the "fallacy" idea. There are signals in charts that big funds actually use and having observed oil and fx futures books there appears to be more liquidity at levels "signaled" by correctly done analysis. These levels ...

Technical Analysis Fallacy

I believe the market may start pricing in the events forecast in this clip. We don't know whether the cited sources come in peace. The alien word could be a reference to flood of immigrants - if so, then the result could be that market is going very ...

Carpe diem: Intraday tactics for Dax and Dow

The obvious problem with the "buy below 1.1" idea is, once it gets near 1.1.. who is going to buy above? That's why I got flat once it just didn't want to go further. It appears that once price stalls near highs, trailing stops and such ...

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Think it needs to hold 0984 for 1100? The earlier figure didn't take into account that 4hr high.

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Hold above 0980 for upside. (edit: corrected) Came across interesting paper. url Here's one way to adapt. video

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You are getting onto something. But one has to consider the implications in people (non-algo/day traders) starting to believe in easy/safe high leverage profits, which will happen when brokers think they know what is up and start marketing that to ...

The One: Price Action and Reaction

video Something about this sounds familiar, if you believe the doom & gloom articles on ZeroHedge that is.

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Sorry guys I didn't realize there's fx trading open somewhere while posting that as my broker had it closed. I would say the market is likely to range around 0950 unless someone has this device: video

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Starting to think what looks bit like bull flag could be a bear flag with double top that might pop a bit higher but likely fail. The daily pattern is very similar as the "bull flag" in CL daily that continued down instead of up - it was a "big bear ...

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