Bob Volman Price Action Scalping

Stop loss taken out and prices moved in expected direction

Here is a trade that ended up in a loss (GBPCHF). Trade was taken just as market opened on Sunday evening yesterday Jan 29th '17 before Asian session (notorious for stop hunting). As at today 30th Jan '17 market sold off in expected direction after taking out my stop loss. :mad:
 

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Hi All,

Very new around here, this is my first post!

Working my way through BV's book (and this thread) and its all largely making sense. Taking his advice to educate myself thoroughly before starting to trade for real & just ordered his new book on price action. I have read a few others and stuff on the internet too.

One thing keeps puzzling me though and forgive the newbiness of the question. BV tells us to set a 10 pip stop & profit limit (currently - I think he talks about stops later on though). With platforms charting pipettes should I be applying BV's methods and aiming for 10 pipette targets or still the full 10 pip targets?

Thanks in advance
 
Can't believe it's been like 5 years since I started reading and participating in this thread.

Still haven't quite learned the method perfectly, but that is mostly because I haven't been practicing much.

I do feel a lot of improvement and I think that if I took only the safest bets (RBs and IRBs in the same direction as the dominant trend before the range break) I could be profitable. But I have another career to pursue, so no time to actually trade with money everyday.

However, I did find a great method to practice on weekends which I have just started. It's a software which allows me to replay forex data tick by tick and take paper trades.

This software is Sierra Chart which I thoroughly recommend. It has its own historical data which is OK for Bob's method. If you use this default data, you must set the number of ticks per bar to 130-160 instead of 70. I have found this number by comparing the number of candle bars on Bob's charts vs my own charts.

You can also set the price to increase on a pip by pip basis: https://www.sierrachart.com/SupportBoard.php?ThreadID=25202

I am still using this soft in its trial version (free 15 days), but it seems really good and could really speed up the learning curve since you can accelerate the chart when things get slow. After this it costs 25 USD/month, I think, without the extra data feeds if you want a better one.

Hope this helps!
 
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Hilarious, that you have spent that much time, five years to learn this method.

Why are you advertising on behalf of a company?. Are you a product vendor? - If a person was serious about trading they would have already been aware of the various platforms that are available to them.

Do you consistently and profitably trade this method?.

Are you even able to show that this method is applicable to actual trading?
 
Hilarious, that you have spent that much time, five years to learn this method.

Why are you advertising on behalf of a company?. Are you a product vendor? - If a person was serious about trading they would have already been aware of the various platforms that are available to them.

Do you consistently and profitably trade this method?.

Are you even able to show that this method is applicable to actual trading?

Trading is hard and I suck.

If you have any other software such as Sierra Chart, ideally for free, please tell us. I'll be the first to use it.
 
Unless Bob Volman can make realtime calls, which he cannot as far as I know, he should be ignored.

Does anyone anywhere make realtime calls regarding trades and is willing to teach his method?

This is not a rhetorical question (contrary to the one that I asked before regarding the software). I would really like to see someone do that.
 
Does anyone anywhere make realtime calls regarding trades and is willing to teach his method?

This is not a rhetorical question (contrary to the one that I asked before regarding the software). I would really like to see someone do that.

I could make live trade calls using the common price action techniques but it would make casino gambling seem rationally probabilistic in comparison.
 
I could make live trade calls using the common price action techniques but it would make casino gambling seem rationally probabilistic in comparison.

Not only is bob unable to make any live trade calls, but he is even unable to show that he has ever placed an actual trade.

Of all of his loyal followers, I would think that there would be at least one person who could show bob's method.
Just another product vendor.
 
Not only is bob unable to make any live trade calls, but he is even unable to show that he has ever placed an actual trade.

Of all of his loyal followers, I would think that there would be at least one person who could show bob's method.
Just another product vendor.

He doesn't sell anything except 2 books, books that most people haven't ever heard of.

He has been providing us with charts for free for 5 years now. Whatever the value of these charts may be in your eyes, it's a pretty big effort for not much in return.

Meanwhile, most guys who have 1 book out try to sell you 8 types of courses that cost x5 as much.
 
Why do feel it necessary to advocate on behalf of bob?

A lot of people have heard of bob's books, and yet there is not one single person that has been able to show this as a profitable method.

Of course the charts should be free. Why would providing hypothetical and hindsight chart analysis be a big effort?.

It would appear that bob has a much more subtle approach to marketing his product.
 
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