Always watching and learning from you folks.

The Swamp

I'm all out too. Waiting on FOMC. Well done today to you and Gator image

The Swamp

I can't short this anymore now, too close to quarterly L3 pivot and alot of other stuff Gator pointed out. Well done for trying image

The Swamp

Haha yeah you ain't kidding, life certainly not a bed of roses. I've got a level down in gold around 1662 just ahead of QL4, just something I'm working on. Still don't trade alot of gold, too used to the turtle EURUSD lol. Last few days I can see ...

The till Aussi is back thread

Just seen this, not on Metal mine much these days. Hope you're doing ok Aus, thinking about you and the family, tough it out mate swd

"AUSSI" my thread and anything I want to put here

Hey, new thread, poor old Aussi must drop in to say hi. Now then, much needed skill oft not talked about, working your way out of a mess! If you can do that, makes trading a hell of a lot easier on the mental state. Takes a shit ton of practice but ...

The till Aussi is back thread

This is one of the brutal truths for sure. Execution environment. Swing trading, leg trading, short term or whatever people call it is certainly one way to defeat some aspects of that.

The brutal truth of day trading

I don't know. It's a bit like asking a builder for advice about building something without knowing what it is. If you are using the Metatrader stack to execute your trades then you have always got to worry about the Virtual Dealer Plugin. This is a ...

The brutal truth of day trading

FIXAPI in LD4. Bypasses MT4 bridge

The brutal truth of day trading

what do you think? The brokers themselves had to be STP/ECN. But t is the LP's behind that take the order, none of this B-book stuff. Been ran out of town on just about all of them. This was some time ago, so I'm not crying. Moved on since then.

The brutal truth of day trading

I had a pure statistical approach coded in C++, it worked fantastically well on the DAX and DOW for a few years until its "alpha robbing" properties came to the attention of the LP's filling the orders. Their blanket response was to delay order ...

The brutal truth of day trading

What do you mean when you say "a condition that exists within price that is independent of the market itself"? Does it mean that if you were to reveal that idea to this forum, the "market" could not act on price to close out your idea? What do you ...

The brutal truth of day trading

Maybe EA's are not the answer...

The brutal truth of day trading

ah yes understood.

The Swamp

oops, what did I do wrong there lol? 10am NY is 10 am EST isn't it? I'm in UK. For me it is the 3pm bar.

The Swamp

Yes it is interesting. Today price was held at 1.1892 at 10am NY. However all the big options expiries were below it. As soon as the options expired, price then flooded down (wth the help of the news or not) to the areas of expiry. Looks very much ...

The Swamp

Dealers option expiries doing/did their job. 1.1850. 1.3Bln

The Swamp

I know. I tried for you buddy, but feel that it fell on deaf ears. Keep safe. swd

The brutal truth of day trading

Yeah. Just keep yourself to yourself as much as possible, don't share too much and do what you do. Some make money but most don't.

The brutal truth of day trading

lol. Buddy I've been trading and involved in algorithmic trading for a very long time, I admit I am not a good chart trader, but I am learning.

The brutal truth of day trading