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have not been selective today going to need more margin, that will help missed some good A setups

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trouble

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a B setup, but I took it

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this would have been a disaster...almost no room for error lucky

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Indeed, and my spreads are much larger than that right now. I'm closer to 100-150%. Madness, I would certainly need better spreads to make it even remotely feasable.

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Understood, makes perfect sense. I don't know why I settled on 2-3 pip targets, it was random I think, perhaps it seemed most doable. But I may experiment with expanding that. My SL placement was also random, generally its 10x my target I think, ...

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been in this trade for a hour an a half now, trying for 2, missed by a tad.... covered it for a pip almost will wait for the next one.

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What time frame are your trading? How many pips are you looking for?

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less than optimal perhaps, but I took it...a few other trades I passed on due to margin constraints again

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Thanks for your reply. Your examples are spot on. I understand the math and its indisputable. Certainly we are at at disadvantage as small retail human traders. I still think there is an inherit edge is short term trading as far as making ...

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avoid

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I guess I better be right a lot. Seems like a daunting task at best.

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I'm seeing that I can become more selective as there are a fair amount of opportunities each day.

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narrow escapes on these....

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I took this trade. Trying for two pips, my execution good have been better. Would have loved buying this pullback now, but I'm in, down about 8 pips, so now I just have to let it play out. Really need some more margin in my account. Probably jinxed ...

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