Thanks for your detailed explanation! I will look for that Frankfurt turn at 9:30 UTC+1. Range bars... never tried those. Currently I am quite happy with my setup of 7 timeframes 1-day down to 15-sec. Cheers, TraderJF

Islander and Medici trade the European open

Acronyms — Hello Auron, thank you for sharing your trades. They are almost perfect, I'd say As I have not been a frequent visitor of this thread, would you mind explaining the acronyms "mid-FH" and "RB3" to me? Cheers, TraderJF

Islander and Medici trade the European open

Lines to trade from — Thanks for the detailed description of your trades (btw, congratulation for your nice trades!). Is there a special rule you derive your lines to trade from?

Interactive Euro Scalping

Trading — Hi Roofx, that is a very interesting topic. My attitude towards trading has changed a lot during my three years as a full time trader. Initially I was thinking of the market as a victim for my 100% automated mechanical system which I ...

Interactive Euro Scalping

European vs. U.S. session, Patterns — Trading the European session (8 UTC+1 to 11 UTC+1) seems easier to me than trading the U.S. session (14 UTC+1 to 17 UTC+1). I have the impression that price action during the EU session is clearer. The ...

Interactive Euro Scalping

Entry signal — Hi Clive, thank you very much for sharing your entry signal! Your setup is logical, precise and almost mechanical. I will give it a try By the way, why do you call your example infamous "Trade of the Day"? I guess you will ...

Interactive Euro Scalping

Interactive Brokers — I find Interactive Brokers even better: - Usual spread 0.5 - 1.0 pips (sometimes 0.1 - 0.3 better after the fill) - Commission 0.25 pips per 100K (below 100K its fixed $2.5) - Minimum deposit only 10K - I use MultiCharts ...

Interactive Euro Scalping

Learning new scalping techniques — Dear traders, first of all thank you for this inspiring thread! I am scalping full time for 3 years now and I would like to expand my skill. The approach outlined by Roofx is pretty much what I am trying to ...

Interactive Euro Scalping

A big piece of the 17.8B CHF?

EUR/CHF

Thanks for the info — Damn - I only grabbed a fraction of this when I scalped it all the way down

EUR/CHF

Fair value — The market is stronger than any entity in this world. Neither the SNB nor the Swiss government can prevent EUR/CHF from dropping if the market continues to exercise downward pressure. Currently there is heavy downward pressure ...

EUR/CHF

EUR/CHF extremely bearish — I am not paying much attention to other pairs when trading EUR/CHF (or any other pair). In my opinion EUR/CHF is in an extremely bearish situation - it is still in a downtrend which started several years ago. This ...

EUR/CHF

USD index — Would you like to expand on this?

EUR/CHF

Scalping only — Sorry, I am scalping only. I have posted my knowledge about this situation but this does not necessarily mean that I will place a swing trade short on this pair.

EUR/CHF

Trapped? — What are you talking about?

EUR/CHF

Break down move likely — I wonder why most of the people here are expecting a move up. When looking at EUR/CHF's history, it broke down most of the time after an intervention. I remember breakdown moves from 1.6000 and 1.4000 in the recent ...

EUR/CHF

The trolls will never shut up — Hi goldsurfer, I definitely like your approach and I support your suggestion :-) But the pity is that the trolls will never shut up. They wouldn't even believe that successful trading is real if you would show ...

Extreme TMA System

Ideas for improvement of strategies — Definitely a good idea. I suppose that this especially applies to strategies which have longer holding periods like several days. As I am focusing on day trading systems I have found out that it is very ...

Drawdown reduction ideas?

Scalping at 15-sec — Hi Roofx, thank you for your detailed answer! You wrote: As far as I can see from the chart, there are no entry and exit points marked up. Would you mind explaining an example trade with entry and exit point in detail? ...

Scalping tops and bottoms with incredible accuracy

Interesting Topic — You have brought up a very interesting topic! I also use to think like this since I am trading a strategy which is also against every rule you can read in books - I also like to call tops and bottoms In order to get ...

Scalping tops and bottoms with incredible accuracy