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- jwlee7ucla replied Jul 12, 2015
The logic of your brain does not follow the logic of your actions- instead of trying to fight it learn to circumvent it through building alternative habits. Two of the ones that helped me the most is having to write extremely detailed psychological ...
- jwlee7ucla replied Jul 12, 2015
I'd like to hear your thoughts on how you pick your targets and stops. Mathematical? Psychological? Specific market movements that change your targets/stops? For me often times the rate of how fast price clears certain areas/struggle directly affect ...
- jwlee7ucla replied Jun 15, 2015
From reading the op, here is my opinion. You are heavily trying to race way to the end where you are a winner, while not doing your due diligence. You know you have so many problems, yet you are still pushing on without addressing them (thats why ...
- jwlee7ucla replied Jun 15, 2015
In case you havn't figured out your answer for yourself, I just use my eyes, and compare the pairs to each other. Paying attention to the market so that you can group strong vs weak currencies (whether its risk vs risk adverse, comdolls vs non, west ...
- jwlee7ucla replied Feb 22, 2015
While I agree with this list, this is the ultimate reason: 4. Not accepting small losses by admitting you are wrong, and get wiped out by leverage
- jwlee7ucla replied Feb 13, 2015
AUDCAD, AUDCHF, AUDUSD if you want to just trade 1 out of 3 possible trades, you ask youself "Which of CAD CHF and USD is the weakest/strongest right now?" If you see a strong AUD you want a weak accompanying pair, and if you see a weak AUD you want ...
- jwlee7ucla replied Feb 13, 2015
What you want to do is place an entry order to buy at the price you want, and put in the exact lot size as your original trade. When price hits that order, your original order will cancel out and leave the newer one floating. I don't think this will ...
- jwlee7ucla replied Jan 26, 2015
going through this thread was like reading someone brag about gambling in a casino. avoid this system.
- jwlee7ucla replied Jan 12, 2015
trade the pairs that have the most movement during your "trading time" of the day. If you are unsure what that is, find a world clock chart for forex that shows which parts of the world is awake and trading during your hours. minimum R:R is hard to ...
- jwlee7ucla replied Jan 11, 2015
Here are some ideas that can help you out based on my experience. 1) be as specific as possible to what your entry specifications are. 2) be as specific as possible as to your trader steps are ( what you do and look at for confirmation of your trade ...
- jwlee7ucla replied Jan 11, 2015
Going through this thread, I've come to the conclusion that the op is the Jaden Smith of forex. He spends his time trying to sound smart with intellectual babble and trying to make his vague question-analogies sound relevant with 0% content being of ...
- jwlee7ucla replied Jan 5, 2015
its based on your floating equity.
- jwlee7ucla replied Jun 6, 2012
I'm not talking about controlling it mohan. I'm talking about being able to get that news.
- jwlee7ucla replied Jun 5, 2012
An example of this would be like *sits there trading* *news feed lights * "prime minister of china says eurozone is doomed to fail, and they will not help it at all anymore" *market shoots and reacts instantly* Stuff like this doesn't show up on a ...
- jwlee7ucla replied Jun 5, 2012
In my case could be several things. As for prints, I can see it on the calender. I don't know if some prints come alongside with announcements (that move the markets)- this is due to inexperience. For example- the news today (I'm guessing its GDP ...
- jwlee7ucla replied Jun 5, 2012
so if I had left bloomberg tv-asia on maybe 2 hours ago, then i would have advanced notice that this announcement was coming? or was it like "this just in- surprise announcment"?
- jwlee7ucla replied Jun 5, 2012
looks like we both got burned. I got stopped out at -22 pips, so I guess I learned my lesson lol. Edit: where are you guys getting "announcement on news"? I have no reliable newsfeed, and I had no idea evans was going to speak, otherwise i would ...
- Where do you get your live newsfeed?
And how much do you pay for it? For me personally, since I love the news, when I don't get my feed ...
- jwlee7ucla replied Jun 5, 2012
I entered short at .8752 by coincidence. I'm aiming for the same tp as you.
- jwlee7ucla replied Jun 4, 2012
Update:: currently at +18.8. Price is picking up speed during the fall, im delaying taking profit for another 30 minutes. But I have moved my stops to safety.