It is fine to scalp. A lot of people do it. But on live you have 2 different animals to fight. 1)No instant execution. Demo is a perfect world. You can enter now whenever you want at the price you want. Instant full execution. This doesn't happen on ...

To scalp or not to scalp? (Images included)

Wrong question to ask. And also dumb. The best trader is the one who puts in the most effort to become successful. Being a woman or a man does not even matter at all. As a matter of fact, you could be a teenager and be better than 90% of the traders ...

Who is the best in trading? Men or women?

looks good to me. seems like you got a solid strategy. now go test it out with a real account and a decent sized money pool.

My Strategy: Tell Me What You Think...

Let me change the perception a little. I had this debate with my mom before. This is what I told my mom: Do you consider doing business evil? You take things which are much cheaper, repackage and sell it off much higher than it's actual worth. Most ...

Are Traders bad people?

1)Find a good mentor 2)Macroeconomics and order flow like porkpie said 3)Get an internship and learn stuff. Get a system and trade it. Without a system you are trading blind.

How do I move forward?

fund it in the currency of the country you live in. unless your country is greece. but if you are like me and you have no choice to fund it in your home currency, I'd say usd. unfortunately still the world's reserve currency and a lot of things are ...

Which currency to use in a new account?

it depends on too many things. The easiest is to buy a new pc. If you want everything to go into 1 box, you need to be computer savvy (unfortunately) But mostly: 1)check if your motherboard can support 2 graphic cards. 2)IF it can, then you can go ...

Help with multi monitors?

To OP: Your thought is not exactly new. There are only 2 (maybe 3) ways of doing risk reward. 1)if you have high rr ratios, eg: 1:3, you can have low win rates. 2)If you have less than 1:1 risk reward ratio, you need to have high win rates. Over ...

Risk / Reward - new approach

Like I said... in order for news to have "already been priced in" you are implying that people already expected and put their money in the markets in anticipation of what is to come. You cannot anticipate the odd events. Nobody can.

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What maths and science attempts to do is to quantify human logic and emotions. At usual times it does this well. In irrational times, it cannot. SNB intervention was an irrational one. It was unexpected. A black swan. A random event. It will happen ...

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that is called use a stop loss. you got served by snb. long xplanation: price patterns happen because smart money anticipates. it makes the patterns you see on the charts in a usual environment. if smart money can't anticipate, they can't form a ...

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