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Carpathian replied Jan 30, 2015M15 AU short +11. Init R/R 20/11 pips. image M15 NU short -20. Init R/R 20/11 pips. image
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Carpathian replied Jan 29, 2015M30 AJ short -30 SL. Init R/R 30/21. Another one in the same trap. Well, after much of a trend the likelyhood of a retrace increases.
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Carpathian replied Jan 29, 2015M15 AU short closed @BE. Init Risk/R 17/11 pips. Would have been a winner. image M30 AJ short @ -30 SL. Init R/R 30/20 pips. A mistaken entry or at least mistaken position management as 15 minutes later red US news were coming. Or if SL was over ...
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Carpathian replied Jan 29, 2015M15 EU long closed @BE. Init Risk/R 20/11 pips. image
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Carpathian replied Jan 29, 2015M30 UCAD long TP=channel, Risk/R 20/15 pips. +15 pips win.
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Carpathian replied Jan 29, 2015Try 'F8/common/show ask line' that will help visualize the spread issue at any time. Well I move to BE when price action does not seem to confirm reaching the TP in a timely manner. Sometimes it is a good decision sometimes not.
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Carpathian replied Jan 29, 2015Hello Happy, In the upper-right black box after the 'S' letter an indi is showing actual spread in points. NU was 13 and AU 16 (1.3 and 1.6 pips respectively). I set TP = channel height. Whatever TP or SL you set that implicitly includes spread as ...
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Carpathian replied Jan 29, 2015Hello People, Targeting the BO channel width. NU closed @ BE. Initial Risk/Reward 30/16 pips. image AU closed @ BE. Initial Risk/Reward 20/12 pips. Would have made a winner. image GOLD TP. Initial Risk/Reward 300/127 pips. image
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Carpathian replied Jan 28, 2015BO channel wide TPs this time. NU long -16 pip loss. image EJ +16 pip win. image EU +12 pip win. image AU -16 and -19 loss. image Yeah, as FOMC is closing in more ranging. Today I realized I was trying to swingtrade this BO system/indicator, ...
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Carpathian replied Jan 28, 2015Targeting BO channel width TPs this time. A loss in GOLD long. image A BE in GU short. image
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Carpathian replied Jan 28, 2015Another BE on GU long. image A -20 pips loss on UCAD long. Okay this was not well selected on top of a swing already... image What I am doing is take a position using a 1:1 RR target based on the breakout and then trail it, where my initial SL ...
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Carpathian replied Jan 28, 2015Good Morning All, An AU short ending in BE. Better safe than sorry.
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Carpathian replied Jan 27, 2015An M5 GOLD loss -23 pips. Makes no sense trading at the end of the day...
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Carpathian replied Jan 27, 2015Tried this EURJPY long on M5. A loss -23 pips. image I think a continuation confirmation of the BO candle (ie. entry over HI/LO of BO candle) is useful especially when BO from a flat line. This time I did not wait for one in hope of a better SL. ...
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