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- ianf0ster replied May 5, 2018
Nothing of interest from Boris Schlossberg this week, just an short piece saying you should only use a system (an EA in his case) when the conditions are appropriate for it's trading style. - Duh! Why would you want to use it when it's not ...
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- ianf0ster replied May 1, 2018
I am only allowed to send/reply to 1 PM per 24hrs ( so called Commercial Members are limited in this way). So replies to some recent PMs: To S. I found that I had not answered your question on Stops. The Stops that students use is totally dependent ...
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- ianf0ster replied Apr 30, 2018
I have had some PMs from traders who have done a Jared Davis course, wondering if Ray has anything to add. Since I have not done Jared's course I can't be certain,. But my impression is that Jared trades longish term and with quite long gaps between ...
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- ianf0ster replied Apr 30, 2018
If you have bothered to read this thread you will know That I am just a student of Ray who is trying to help as many traders as I can. I don't have a course to sell - nobody should be learning from somebody like me (or from somebody like V H). I ...
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- ianf0ster replied Apr 30, 2018
I am most impressed that V H one of the most successful of Ray's students has produced a superb document on how she trades Gold. I was not expecting a 50 page .pdf She has shared it with Compass and with my Self Help Group and the reaction is very ...
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- ianf0ster replied Apr 29, 2018
I have just had an interesting discussion about successful trading versus profitable trading with a newish member of my Self Help Group. I have said before that successful trading guarantees profitable trading over the longer term. But Profitable ...
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- ianf0ster replied Apr 27, 2018
This has been my first week back to trading between 1/2 and 3/4 of normal since January. Due to lack of sleep and lack of focus due to a skin condition. (10:20 am) Ian Foster: Not sure if I will take any more trades today. Current status for the ...
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- ianf0ster replied Apr 27, 2018
Somebody was asking where I posted about Ray's Scalping/Platform familiarisation exercise. One of them was this post on July 21st 2017 url
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- ianf0ster replied Apr 27, 2018
This is the first News trade (apart from Oil Inventories) that I have done in the last few months (due to my health problems). Ray called this as a short back on Sunday in his Price Discount table. But the value was stabalizing into yesterday's ...
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- ianf0ster replied Apr 26, 2018
On a personal note, I am much happier with my trading today:- I managed to stay within my risk parameters. I had 31 trade parts with only 4 losses, so an 87% win rate. I actually told the room I was done for the day after 29 trade parts (with an 86% ...
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- ianf0ster replied Apr 26, 2018
More on the above: I have now been told that the Lady doing the great trading above is a J.E. a member of my Ray's Students Self Help group. She started off trading the Macro charts, but really started to find success when she first attempted Ray's ...
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- ianf0ster replied Apr 25, 2018
It is impossible to give a general answer to your first 2 questions. I can only say what I know for me and for a few other students where I know sufficient details. The vast majority of students do not share their efforts, how much time they spend ...
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- ianf0ster replied Apr 25, 2018
My personal results so far this week: Monday +1.1% Tuesday +7.7% - poor trading, exceeded my risk parameters. Terrible win% of only 55% Today +8.7% of which +5.5% on the Oil Inventories. - Poor trading, exceeded my risk parameters, but not by as ...
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- ianf0ster replied Apr 24, 2018
Ray turned on his 'Best Execution Algo' a few times today, it was trading both ZN and the ES today but he admits that he missed a few opportunities. Still a +47% profit (on a notional Retail account) isn't a bad day - LOL ! That makes it +214% ...
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- ianf0ster replied Apr 24, 2018
Of course it isn't quite as straightforward and simple as some may think from my post above. Other Fundamental news can and will also have an affect on US equity and fixed income (and Commodity) prices. But to a poor guy like be $14bn seems like ...
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- ianf0ster replied Apr 24, 2018
Today Ray reported this from RanSquawk yesterday: ___________________________________________________________________________________ Morgan Stanley pension fund rebalancing model estimates ~$14bn of outflows from equities , ~$12bn inflows to fixed ...
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- ianf0ster replied Apr 24, 2018
A PM I got today: _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Hello, i have already watch a couple of rays videos. But i would like to watch all of his work. Is there any video library? cause ...
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- ianf0ster replied Apr 23, 2018
Now 167% profit o in 3 days: Ray's best execution Algo results for today added to those shown for Thurs and Fri of last week. Another 78 trade parts today (all long Bonds) with no losing trades + 44% profit on the starting (notional retail ) account ...
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- ianf0ster replied Apr 22, 2018
Congratulations Mr Octagon, I know that the recordings of last year's classes will keep you very busy not to mention the ongoing daily focus sessions (depending upon your current knowledge since they are meant primarily for students who have already ...
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- ianf0ster replied Apr 22, 2018
Hanover's opinion on true institutional trading after he attended Ray's class last year. The 'institutional trading topics' he mentions are all (some) of the ones taught by Ray. url
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