Adal, sounds like a great idea... but what will this really tell you? If 40 out of 50 barriers got taken out in a said time period, In and of itself, that's not a statistic I am going to count on happening again and again. If the barriers got taken ...

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yup same here... I tried to research into it. Though I don't know if you can be sure of how something like that will actually effect the euro in it's present sate of supply and demand at the time, there seems to be a lot of factors. And how can you ...

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nice.. world map... good stuff.

Order Flow - Achieving the mindset

How about stuff like a big M&A deal they just wrote about on Bloomberg recently... http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-20/at-t-agrees-to-buy-deutsche-telekom-s-t-mobile-usa-unit-for-39-billion.html stuff like this? I mean this would cause eur ...

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more on options and spot fx. http://www.investopedia.com/articles/optioninvestor/05/022305.asp The range itself could be caused by hedging.. you can see the footprints on the chart. they usually try and lock in prices at certain levels, usually ...

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I agree James, the inefficiences of the market we are trading is what we are looking to find and exploit. Liquidity being one of those inefficiencies contrary to the misunderstanding of how deep the liquidity really is. But orderflow is not just ...

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I mean, how do you know it's a stop hunt? Where does orderflow build up? Could they just be testing that orderflow other then reasons for collecting a quick buck or liquidating positions? who could be placing orders there? why would they place them ...

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I don't think we need to be thinking about stop hunts, stop hunts, stop hunts and barriers the whole time to be honest. If we are trying to anticipate traders and understand why they are trading, who they are, typical behavior patterns, where they ...

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Just to add my .2 cents... I believe the market is NOT random. If anyone thinks it is, I don't know why you're trying to trade it. Perhaps for entertainment as a gambler? There have been studies on this, and strategies deployed by people who make ...

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yea those are vanillas unless otherwise noted. are you a knife catcher?

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The hunters do not need to move price by themselves... they can persuade others to join them, even if they don't know the real reason, such as generating patterns, or simple higher highs/lower lows during illiquid times, etc... and putting out ...

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yes, this all makes sense to me. after all we are looking for the mispricings. Going with the hunters on both plays makes sense though, but as to fading it... yea, what you say about overall directional bias is what I would look to do.

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you could try gauging PA on the reaction and thinking about overall trend and various other elements.... who would be a big seller? where are the buyers? when did it happen....

Order Flow - Achieving the mindset

NP, I am still on my journey as well... I think you should keep an eye on oil, gold, yields, equities and this kind of thing for sure. I think we should be looking for anything that will cause order flow on the spot fx market. Find out why prices ...

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I am not sure about a lot of these questions, but so far it seems to be a joint intervention here. From what I understand about past interventions... they generally don't work out to well in the long run, they are just trying to stabilize and I'm ...

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I hear you on that one...

Order Flow - Achieving the mindset

Yea Carnegie! Simulator boy needs to go live soon with all this fake money he is making

Order Flow - Achieving the mindset

cut it out fabreu

Order Flow - Achieving the mindset

Carnegie... what's up bro... good thread you have here... just trying to keep it moving. btw, there was just one chick that popped in here the other day actually... a DS fan... but triger dude scared her off... lol jk triger....

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Interesting post from Darkstar: some asked: How do you determine market direction? Someone posted this as well, I forget where, but I found it looking through Gaston's posts awhile ago...

Order Flow - Achieving the mindset