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June 21st, 2016, 06:44 AM
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New impetus
It seems like no time but 2 years have flown by since my last trading attempts. A demanding full-time job and two young children ate up all my free time so trading hasn't been a possibility. Now that...
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February 12th, 2014, 06:54 AM
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The Zig-zag indie gets me the swing points, but...
The Zig-zag indie gets me the swing points, but it doesn't any more than that, so it leaves the calculation to me to work out if the swing points are all heading up or down or whatever. And actually...
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February 10th, 2014, 05:50 AM
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Thanks v. much for reminding me of the Zig-Zag...
Thanks v. much for reminding me of the Zig-Zag indicator. If it's well-coded it might just save me a lot of time coding up something similar from scratch.
re your psychological journey - I can...
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February 7th, 2014, 09:41 AM
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I'm totally open to suggestion. I figure that my...
I'm totally open to suggestion. I figure that my definition of trend or range or neither (as above) is as simple as I can get it. I've got trend direction and strength in there, and ranges. You think...
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February 6th, 2014, 08:09 AM
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WilleeMac - I just searched on google. Don't...
WilleeMac - I just searched on google. Don't remember exactly what the link was, just put a few search words in, you're bound to find it on the first page. But as I said above, the guy didn't reveal...
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February 6th, 2014, 08:04 AM
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Ah OK, didn't see you'd just joined until now. I...
Ah OK, didn't see you'd just joined until now. I think you just have to make 5 posts and then the restrictions are removed - a precaution against Vietnamese / Russian spam attacks. Last time I looked...
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February 5th, 2014, 06:21 AM
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Hi Psy I checked out his topdog website...
Hi Psy
I checked out his topdog website briefly but I couldn't actually find anything to describe what he advocates, if there's anything there it's completely buried behind the advertising and...
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February 4th, 2014, 10:04 AM
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A trend, a range, or neither
I'm still going over the 2013 setups and I am still finding more and more price action that I need to define. This time it's really elementary: market state - is the market in a trend or a range?...
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January 7th, 2014, 09:48 AM
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Psych stuff
Very salient psych stuff which I've culled from Lance Beggs on his YTC blog where he talks about being fit to take re-entries after getting stopped out...
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January 7th, 2014, 09:29 AM
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Happy New Year!
Happy New Year all you traders out there reading this!
Had to do my tax return for 2012/13 as my input to my plans for 2014 and it was a shock to the system to discover I had conveniently...
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December 12th, 2013, 07:46 AM
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More review & analysis
This is the first setup I've marked in what is rapidly becoming quicksand under my feet.
https://nexusfi.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=130996
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December 9th, 2013, 05:49 PM
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Currently starting a massive review
It always takes me ages when I'm starting something new and I've just started a review of 2013's YTC PAT setups as part of a plan to give myself the confidence I'm sorely lacking. Of course it's...
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November 22nd, 2013, 07:56 AM
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2013-11-21 Thursday late EU / early US session
Only had about an hour's screen time watching the market ranging with a passion between 1.3455 and '77.
Then I had to leave suddenly to take care of some family stuff and that was it for the day. ...
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November 21st, 2013, 06:47 AM
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Yes, fiendish. I normally take a look at the...
Yes, fiendish. I normally take a look at the trade from the other bias just to make sure I'm not missing anything, but it didn't occur to me to do that here. :der:
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November 21st, 2013, 06:28 AM
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SNAFU - confession time
This is probably not a fun read so if you, a nexusfi.com (formerly BMT) forum reader, like stories of profits and success, you can happily skip this post.
I have to detail some of this stuff...
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November 20th, 2013, 02:02 PM
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2013-11-20 Wednesday late European / early US session
Position size: 2 x US$50K
Max risk per trade: 10 points (both parts) / 1% real money account size
Daily time-out: -20 points
Daily full stop: -40 points
Physical state: Fine, hungry again....
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November 19th, 2013, 05:17 PM
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2013-11-19 Tuesday late EU/early US session
Position size: 2 x US$50K
Max risk per trade: 10 points (both parts) / 1% real money account size
Daily time-out: -20 points
Daily full stop: -40 points
Physical state: Good
Mental: OK
Fatigue:...
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November 17th, 2013, 05:23 PM
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Trying different chart mark-ups
Credit to Bacon for the colour scheme
https://nexusfi.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=128951
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November 15th, 2013, 11:32 AM
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2013-11-15 Friday late session
Had to have those 3 together - put the one from yesterday in there too. Hopefully I won't let myself ignore them again.
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November 15th, 2013, 10:06 AM
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I'm going to stick this up here so I don't forget...
I'm going to stick this up here so I don't forget about it - davesmith made me aware yesterday's sell-off found support right at an area of consolidation before the big volatility hit on Wednesday....
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November 15th, 2013, 06:24 AM
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Thanks. It keels over when I connect to...
Thanks. It keels over when I connect to Interactive Brokers though. So I can get it up and running with the workspace, no problem, but then making the connection causes it to freeze.
I think I...
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November 15th, 2013, 05:29 AM
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Ninjatrader is currently belly-up so while trying...
Ninjatrader is currently belly-up so while trying different ways of getting it going I've also got more to add to yesterday's review.
Lessons Learnt
First thing is trading is a bit like bomb...
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November 14th, 2013, 05:00 AM
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2013-11-14 Thursday early session
Can't put it more unambiguously. A corollary to that is:
Position size: 2 x US$50K
Max risk per trade: 10 points (both parts) / 1% real money account size
Daily time-out: -20 points
Daily...
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November 13th, 2013, 05:34 PM
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Thinking about this post...
Thinking about this post (https://nexusfi.com/trading-journals/10497-trading-spot-fx-euro-using-price-action-19.html#post335026) again after looking at the day's chart after my setup 7 earlier.
...
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November 13th, 2013, 10:19 AM
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2013-11-13 Wednesday early session
So in terms of my plan that means (a) stick to the plan and (b) don't take entries where there's too much doubt
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