I've heard about fractals but don't know much about them. I trade the continuations and breakouts of higher highs and lower lows. Perhaps it's similar to what you're doing. Or not hah. Like I said, don't know much about fractals.

Range Bars for Scalping?

Yes it can be done. Every timeframe has people that sya the next lower timeframe is noise and can't be traded. There are people that trade 10 secs. However you need to know exactly what you're doing to do that successfully.

Forex scalping in 1 min time frame?

I'm speaking with regards to EurUsd during the first few hours of the NY session using 3 range bars. Other pairs and times likely differ in the behavior. Anyway, the pair will range for a while usually making higher high or lower lows for a good ...

Identifying Trend Changes...

I scalp and generally get 1-5 pips a day. Sometime more, sometimes less and take a loss. My stop is usually 1-3 pips. I'm still a beginner, so take this for whatever you feel it's worth. But from my experience thus far... You need to have very good ...

Help me get 100% Win Ratio & 10 pips a day

I use range bars for scalping but I don't know what you're asking or ?

Range Bars for Scalping?

Easy to say in hindsight. I can't tell if you're saying it's something you're working on doing yourself and encouraging other to work on it too. If so, great, that's a good goal. But if you're saying you do that on a consistent basis using proper ...

Scalper challenge

I don't believe it's "gut instinct". I believe it's intuition that is based on experience. Once you do something enough it becomes second nature. You do things and don't think about it or why you did it. You just react based on past experience. ...

Scalper challenge

No daily target. I take what I can.

How many trades do you make daily? (for scalpers)

I make anywhere from 1-8 trades a day. Usually around 2-4 a day though.

How many trades do you make daily? (for scalpers)

You'll get a ton of different answers. Some will be based on the users own experience, some will be based on what that user read, some will be based on what the user just came up with on the spot. I scalp, so I can't speak for longer timeframes, but ...

Ideal Stop Loss

Justin, I logged into my account from the website and checked the PnL statement. It does it indeed show it as a credit. Awesome. Thanks.

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

I can answer those. 1- The account you open is automatically ECN since MBT is an ECN broker. 2- Pretty sure it's $400. 3- Look on their website for the latest Forex spreads of the major pairs. 4- It's on their website.

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

Justin, Does a profit target in Multicharts get paid for being a limit order? When I open the Order and Position Tracker window in MC it lists the profit target as a limit order. However, there isn't a column displaying commissions. So I'm not sure ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

I too have a problem with the range charts in NT. They have acknowledged there is a problem with the loading of tick based charts. I'll have to see more info before I'm convinced the loading of tick data is a problem on MBT side. At this point I ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

Ah ok. My bad then. Good luck in your trading.

Scalper challenge

Not trying to be a dick. I imagine you all must have your own way of scalping. With so many different methods going on in one account, how do you expect to learn anything?

Scalper challenge

Justin, Just to be clear... Say EurUsd is currently at 1.9000 Bid / 1.9009 Ask. I put in a limit order to go long at 1.9100. Price eventually rises and I get filled. Does that Long trade qualify for the credit?

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

Wow, that's pretty crazy. So if I enter AND exit a EurUsd position with Limits, then the total cost of the trade (spread + comm) will be less than .4 pip. That's even better than Oanda's best of .9. And if I enter with Limit and exit with Market (my ...

MB Trading's forex announcement next week -just hype or possible game changer?

I was able to read all of it via google. Unable to successfully link here though.

NFA's new/expanded 'slippage' investigation