Trailing stops — Whats your experience of using trailing stops from the client side? I've been trying out the demo and put in a trade but my PC rebooted overnight after doing admin tasks! If this had been a live account then I could possibly ...

Interbank Fx

Preface from "New Market Wizards" — More a set of beliefs, but I still think worth quoting: "Here's what I believe: 1. The markets are not random. I don't care if the number of academicians who have argued the efficient market ...

Market & Trading Facts

Just a fib number - 61.8 - got it from Rob Booker. I used to use 40 but this seems to be much better. I havent done any proper backtesting for sure - just from annotating charts.

Aussie Pairs

hows your options play going?

Central Banks Watch

Shrink 'em to 80 or less at: http://www.gifworks.com/image_editor.html I got mine from: url (I noticed Habeeb's old spinning coin there too under the "money" section)

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away from your desk — I can see how mental stops would work if you are screen trading but what if you want to put on a longer term position, say a swing trade for more than a few hours or perhaps a few days - would you still use no stops? One ...

Inside Info on Brokers.

Another recommendation? — OK I have to admit I haven't read this one but its one of those that has a story that is analogous to trading (or is that allegorical?). Anyway its called "Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" and it was ...

Moneyball

I thought all I had to do was pick the money off the trees growing in my forex garden! There was an article or book that I got off emule called something like "Winners and Losers of the zero sum game" which describes in detail what you've just ...

Where does the money come from?

i've checked your positions today and it looks like you're heading for breakeven. maybe you're right, shudda jumped in!

Bonds

Nice chart...using Jim's terminology the tweezer bottom engulfing might also be a dblhc + OVB. Since the bulls are weak then maybe you could of gone on a limit hunt of 80-100 ret of the blue candle with added confluence of the fib & channel line as ...

GBPUSD

Large vs Small Price Patterns — I've highlighted a few areas on the chart and would like to collect your thoughts on the following price action: 1-2-3 pattern - can be high or low with the 2nd peak not reaching the 1st - along with a reversal ...

EURUSD

how did you work out the fundies - does it include that matrix you posted? i see 114 as weekly support that might cause the selling to pause or bounce - thats why i want to see a convincing break!

Bonds

random entries!? surely not! don't you mean "well researched" instead!? i haven't studied bonds that long so haven't really got a good feel for the s & r levels yet - that's where i was hoping you guys would come in! also my broker doesn't have a ...

Bonds

If only I could catch all the circled moves then I'd be very happy (and also rich)!!! Where can I buy this "hindsight" thing!?

Query: Moving Stops to Breakeven

last one - price action before #77 — showing breakout from long consolidation pattern and then pullback (#77).

Query: Moving Stops to Breakeven

another confluence example — same pair, bit later on, after the channel break. note that on the big ellipse you could: 1. sell on the trendline 2. sell on the MA 3. sell on the trendline/MA intersection 4. sell on the 50 fib ret 5. sell on the ...

Query: Moving Stops to Breakeven

trendline example — Showing two entry points: 1. bar pattern bouncing off line 2. price pattern break Both inside a nice channel pattern last month. Note on the second example the price closed below the line for a few bars - no line will ever ...

Query: Moving Stops to Breakeven

i bet you'd knock 'em dead, merlin - don't be shy now! i think there are far better traders on this board that would do a much better job! seriously i think that they could be just as good as the experts out there and plus you get FF in the ...

Forex Trading Expo Casebook (merged threads)

yes i find that it can be too much information so it can also be distracting. however you can't ignore them altogether even if only to know which days to avoid opening a position! chewing the fat over fundies out-of-hours is however another matter! ...

What moves the markets?

thanks jim, all compliments gratefully received!

Query: Moving Stops to Breakeven