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pipmutt replied Oct 6, 2010I don't think he's trying to is he? Retail is a game of it's own....
Advice I wish I had as a complete forex newbie
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pipmutt replied Oct 6, 2010I guess it depends on what experience that advice is based on. There are several things, in fact 99% of it (sorry!), which could be called inaccurate or 'unusual'. It will be interesting for you to refer back to your post in a year or two to see ...
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pipmutt replied Oct 6, 2010Oh boy, I don't know where to start with that lot! I'd hardly call it 'advice' though, it's more like your own personal thoughts and opinions based on your experiences so far. Hopefully they'll change as you become more experienced and familiar with ...
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pipmutt replied Oct 6, 2010If it can all be written down then why not just automate it?
How do you handle losing focus?
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pipmutt replied Oct 5, 2010Isn't that the point? Lots of jawboning about intervention at a line in the sand helps their cause....until it doesn't! It's worked before, pretty much no-brainer trades, like candy from a baby. I think the problem now is everyone is trying to play ...
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pipmutt replied Oct 5, 2010It's great that you can recognise when you're trading well, and not so well....even a losing trade can have been well traded and executed. It's also good that you don't care about the money (as long as it's not making you reckless), that's a big ...
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pipmutt replied Oct 5, 2010Sounds like you're getting a little over-confident and careless, complacent even. The market has a habit of bringing people back down to earth when they least expect it, usually it costs money!
Develop the discipline to 'plan the trade and trade ...How do you handle losing focus?
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pipmutt replied Sep 26, 2010lol, why, are you planning on trying to get a job with one of them or something? The zero sum debate I'm not even going to get into, it's the ultimate exercise in futility!

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pipmutt replied Sep 23, 2010Interest rate expectations and announcements are a great example of how context is more important than actual data, the market interprets and prices in, often in a quite obscure fashion. I'm not sure if/how that pricing-in could effectively be ...
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pipmutt replied Sep 23, 2010No good talking to me about programming, I'm an IT dummy, doing a spreadsheet in Excel is about my limit! Anytime I need anything written for MT4 I commission someone from Eastern Europe, they're pretty good at this stuff and amazingly cheap!
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pipmutt replied Sep 23, 2010Sounds like a mechanical strategy to me and you're never going to get comparable results, TA indicators are notoriously lagging. I'm sure there are thousands of simple automated strategies plodding away producing mediocre returns, I guess it depends ...
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pipmutt replied Sep 23, 2010Herculean, I would say impossible! I suppose it's a remote possibility for a purely mechanical strategy but taking into account fundamentals, unexpected news and data, geopolitical events, central bank interventions, risk aversion.....and a host of ...
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pipmutt replied Sep 22, 2010Fudomyo made an excellent post in reply but I'll just add....it's not necessarily 'belief'. The tools you've categorically stated don't work are regularly being used by some traders to help them make money, consistently. You can't argue with ...
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pipmutt replied Sep 22, 2010Well that wasted 10 minutes of my life that I'll never get back.....
Anyway what's with all these authoritative-sounding "doesn't work" statements? Surely you mean 'doesn't work, for you', not 'doesn't work, period'. 
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pipmutt replied Sep 19, 2010That's deep.... lol, great sig you got, not read it before!
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pipmutt replied Sep 17, 2010Yeah their are two sites to every thing but if your loosing alot then you want have no mooney to make alot wiv so even tho you could urn alot instead of loosing alot you didn (FF at it's finest!
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pipmutt replied Sep 17, 2010Your not going to urn alot if you loose alot cos you want have nuffink to trade wiv
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pipmutt replied Sep 17, 2010lol, you seem to be arguing with yourself there! When you say it apparently it makes sense but when Boris says it it's BS....well, oooh-k then

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