It's more complicated, a couple of months ago (3-4) a lower than expected NFP made the dollar stronger .

News trading = Promised land?

True, 2 order traders are not news traders, are just gamblers. There are some gamblers that are doing good.

News trading = Promised land?

I think demo is a waste of time from one point. Demo is good to learn the basics and that's it. These are/was my steps: 1. Learn the basics, all kind of indicators, all kind of free strategies - DEMO 4 - 6 Months 2. Play the basics on different ...

Please tell me your method!

I've done some research about this. The conclusion that i've came with is that is better to wait for a really good moment to enter long on gbp / jpy and play for the interest. This pair is going up for the last 7 years. Take a look at the monthly ...

making (a little) money off interest

i would continue with my plan.

oh soooo close!

They don't give a crap because they are not ready, but still... they don't give a crap

Trader Psychology - Understanding Yourself

This thread is so dead. People here don't give a crap about these things, even if it's verry important. Not everybody, most of the people. Look at the tunnels threads, people discuss discuss discuss, and I bet majority there is doing demo . They ...

Trader Psychology - Understanding Yourself

It's not flawless, if you didn't have a problem, consider yourself lucky. It's not something that happend only to me, they said on an email "This morning some of our clientswere having difficulty logging in to the FXTrade Servers. Please notethat ...

Broker's Connections down...

Does it happens to you to have a bad week and in the weekend to look back at the chart and ask yourself "where did i went wrong?". I mean, you strategy was fine, made some lose, made some wins, but in the end you should have been +.

A Losing Week

The week started bad for me too, by today I've lost confidance in this week, and guess what? Today I had some good signals and I've traded only one... If i've traded how I was suposed to do it would have been a winning week.

A Losing Week

I'm back to, it's not a demo ...

problems logging onto Oanda?

The platform disconected me. I've called to customer support and they say to clear my browser cache. I did that. It didn't work Now I'm trying to call them again, guess what, number busy!!! What's that?

problems logging onto Oanda?

Yes, great article.

The mentality of the successful trader

"I can't" isn't a reason to give up, it's a reason to try harder

great quote regarding taking a loss and carrying on

I think I would be taking my profits, or at least a part, big part if i was trading this pair for a couple of days. It's not a reversal, I wish it was that simple

candlesticks

They can bluff, but we can leave the table. If it's a global conspiracy then we are doomed :

Integrity of Forex Brokers

Sometimes I use them as exit points. When they apear might after a strong move they sugest to me the end of the big move, not necesary a reversal. It can be a consolidation, a long consolidation. Some people use the high/low of them as entry points, ...

candlesticks

My favorits are shooting star at the top and hammer at the bottom. Bigger the shadow better the signal. Confirmation from next candle is mandatory I don't like inverted hammer or hang man. I don't know why, maybe because I saw Steve Nison saying ...

candlesticks