I think fundamentals will play a greater role today: lots of data and speeches, not least Poulson and Brown together at the UK CBI, which cable traders should be watching closely (not on FF calender).

Cable Update (GBPUSD)

orangeroshan and skyline - just read both threads and did my first trade just now for 70 pips (hedging fiirebird nicely btw). just to say your efforts are superhuman and please keep it up!!! skyline - i hope you post your EA so we can all contribute ...

SRDC Episode II

Ghostpipper: sit back, relax, take a couple of vallium. It's only money. Que sera sera yada yada....

Big Boys DID IT AGAIN

I don't "care" about the dollar. I care about having £ in my pocket, whichever way that takes. I just cannot see that there can be enough USD shorts left out there.

Big Boys DID IT AGAIN

I'm taking the contrarian view, think the USD sellers and GBP buyers must be close to exhaustion now. when everyone says it's going up, it usually comes crashing down etc etc...

Big Boys DID IT AGAIN

because those servers haven't opened yet. Not all brokers are open when the "market" is open.

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think some big boys taking more opportunity of low liquidity and raping the small fry while their servers are down - hopefully the stop-hunting will stop in a few hours and some dollar love will prevail.

Big Boys DID IT AGAIN

could set an email alert then do it manually.

Firebird EA - fixed version -

here's an idea. take the hedge v1.0b2 and make the hedge trade (with the trend) a large TP (say 100 pips) with a TS of say 20.

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a few weeks ago I was in a similar position with a large neg float and bottled it closing many positions taking big loss, only for the market to turn around and go to all the TP levels that would've been. lesson for me: have plenty margin to be able ...

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isn't the problem with limiting trades that the trend will go way against your feew trades and take ages to come back, so balance stagnates possibly building up negative swaps? surely just not overleveraging and having a healthy margin is key? I ...

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set your pipsloss to a very large number like 99999

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mmmm....I can't seem to find HedgeTakeProfit function in 1.0b2.

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here's version b2

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is that version 3? that one didn't place proper hedge orders for me, so I use v2.

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re. all trades being shorts. This is why I switched to the hedge version, so at least FB makes money on it's way while trending. what I really want is some coding expert to be able to alter the TP level so that the hedge trade in the trending ...

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so when you say "losses" do you mean the trade closed at the trailing-stop?

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my first thought were this is bad for UK smaller companies such as AIM-listed, but NASDAQ sware they won't impose US-regulations. The FX effect, may be GBP negative in the long-run but I doubt it.

Nasdaq makes £2.7bn offer for London Stock Exchange

Billworld - where would you attach equitylogger? You say it's an EA but surely it cannot go onto a chart with FB installed?

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does anyone read whole threads anymore????

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