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altrader replied Apr 29, 2009url go through every lesson there and use a demo account. Come up with a profitable strategy using a demo account and do that for 3months profitably. If you get that right then open a live account with a small amount of money. Trade your live ...
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altrader replied Apr 28, 2009well price certainly is trying very hard to get to the Daily Pivot Point. Looks like it will probably get there. Will be intersting to see what it does after that though.
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altrader replied Apr 28, 2009Yeah yep. I'm expecting the USD to get stronger though with this swine flu + news that citigrp etc may need more money. You were right about those longs getting triggered.
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altrader replied Apr 28, 2009bingo, that's the type of thing I'm expecting. I've seen it a few times when oanda will winden their spread and you get this kind of pause for awhile and then BOOM, price tends to rocket one way or another.
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altrader replied Apr 28, 2009Perhaps but I've seen the market move massively and yet their spread has remained at 0.9pip spread. The market only moved a small amount on this move and the spread widened quite dramatically.
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altrader replied Apr 28, 2009spread blew out to 4pips for EUR/USD on Oanda. Any idea why this is the case? edit: now we are at 1.2pips. Something weird is going on or about to happen soon me thinks.
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altrader replied Apr 27, 2009Price action is trending a lot — Price action seems a LOT less volatile than previous months on the EUR/USD. Look how trendy it is. I think something weird is going on. Things appear to be calming down. This feels like it was before all the ...
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altrader replied Apr 27, 2009Some settings — ATR of 14 periods. And then viewing on the 30min time frame, the ATR=24pips for the EUR/USD. In these conditions my method was working pretty well as can be seen in the image below. The only issue for me is when to get out of a ...
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altrader replied Apr 26, 2009Thanks again gammase1
And yeah, I'm still developing a system. I've been looking at longer term and shorter term strategies. From what I've experienced so far, I must agree with you regarding the 2-3pip strategy being a poor one.Trading with $1000 per pip?
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altrader replied Apr 26, 2009how many units would it take to move the market on say the EUR/USD during the London session?--by just a pip or two.
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altrader replied Apr 24, 2009Thank you very much, that does help me a lot. But I just wonder how much a 10 million unit order could move the market anyway, say the EUR/USD? e.g. $1000/pip Those guys in that thread say break the order down for better execution so that you don't ...
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altrader replied Apr 23, 2009Lost on this trade as well. Detailed explanation in the image below:
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altrader replied Apr 23, 2009sell on gbp/jpy — Sell Entry=142.86 Take profit=142.05 Stop Loss=143.86 I'll be looking to move the stop loss to break even if I end up being +40pips in profit. Also, just because I have a stop loss that goes outside of the 1:1 risk to reward ...
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