I'm happy with my chart study approach. No more changes. This journal is now about in-depth trading issues I have each set of trades.

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

Your statement (it being unanswerable) is wildly delusional and wrong enough to harm. It's the future. Nobody knows the future. Especially the single average of one price, much less two to enter and exit and all those in-between, that each of tens ...

Another reason why 99% of traders fail

(new) ___________________________________________________________ method activities Set up the chart with file and its indicators 1,2,3,4 and maybe a template also with a few old drawn items. Exercise to get an idea of the rest of the TF's: Open a ...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

Argh, you gave me a case of the "responsibilities". I'll be studying mm all WEEK! (Nothing a few mc's won't cure.)

(can) small accounts make a living ?!

5% a day

(can) small accounts make a living ?!

Stop! Desperation positions to lose it all. (Unfortunately, I know.) Try demo or simulator or paper, or at least drop to pennies. Shouldn't take long; mm and edge are about all you need.

how long does it takes to become a successful trader?

Great article, thanks. So when China keeps their CNY of low value and so allow the dollar's value to remain high, they exchange the hordes of dollars they have for other Central Banks' products of lasting value. When China feels they own enough of ...

New trading markets are going to appear soon!

Is there any way you can trade a simulator with the indicator you rent? Money management is your forte, but without an edge it does little good. So, if you can repeat your trade study 100's of times in discretionary, mm will have a place to be. ...

Seeking Immediate Investor

I'm not familiar with getting frustrated or angry at the market. Usually, for me (and here), it's the euphoria/greed - despondency cycle with fear in the middle. Sometimes, though, I just stay loose and accept what the market has to offer after I ...

Market Frustration Thread

Oh yeah, along with Stockholm Syndrome, the Milgram experiments, intermittent conditioning, and brainwashing. "You know what's going to happen if you..." situation. An article on special VEN, or spindle, neurons can be socially swayed anywhere and ...

Jacko's Forex House of Pleasure and Pain

Great thread! I'm learning from your method. My philosophy about patterns is that they're all temporary; if one sticks and repeats, then it may keep repeating until something else takes over. Traditional patterns' geometry serves the price-time ...

Price failure trading

(new) Post#1: __________________________________ file image 08162010 angle trading for a new overall area structure, TL sets to help All I do is eyeball the price-time line's angles to see if they weight the current trend against the widest ...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

Another way to download chart data, if you only want to use it on a chart on the platform, is below -- step one: Set maximum number of bars for any chart of a particular symbol. Go to Tools -> Options -> Charts. Change "Max Bars in History" to ...

MT4 Platform

Agreed. This is more a reply to get an idea of where I need to go next before live trading, rather than recommendations for other people: I'm fairly certain skill is number one. If you can tolerate using your trading method over weeks and months ...

Your definition of Consistently Profitable?

(revised) Okay, I'll give it a shot. The subvariables are one origin ("from-a-") MTF errant (that is, not curve-fitting, and is in need of the other to guide) multiple Each one has two versions, each using both and only shapes and TL's, one where ...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

(methodology) I dropped the last version of line patterns because I figured an overall range for all of the methods I've done to now. image The difficulty is that this method is organized via chart pictures first in my brain. From there, chart ...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

(old) ____________________________________________________ file This is a TL and pattern approach, with a developed trading journal included. Minor types of each line pattern will vary over time, to improve effectiveness; and, charts and other ...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

Thus, get as many slices of versions of reality as you can -- Jump in with $10k real into NFP *, paper trade a four-year hold, demo $10 until it doubles, run a simulator at top speed, etc. More like touching a live wire. (The ungrounded appliance ...

Don't play games with demo accounts

a couple of ideas II — Toward a natural drawing of trendlines: Converse to the last idea of simplifying into a symbol why an entire chart area's price action turns, trendlines tend to be overly symbolic -- I mean, one may overfocus on trading ...

EUR/USD patterns

a couple of ideas I — Using chart symbols for why an area turns: Price action can get bogged down with all its possible interpretations. Some prefer to simplify through using higher time frames and carefully reading fewer bars there. I like to ...

EUR/USD patterns