Would agree with you - being right or wrong is of no use - at all - if you don't gain from it - by making money in this case.
Unfortunately Dooms did not make money out of what he did - but if he had stuck to his original forecast he made 6 days ago - he would have been very happy this morning.
Instead all the goal posts change - which I think he did himself - ie - increased his stake sizes and played around with his stops - but did not stay with them and set them in stone
With regards to no volumes etc prior to the news - I would agree hardly encouraging to take new orders on larger stakes - but the AU movements did keep to normal TA rules and it was certainly possible to short term intraday trade quite easily
I appreciate Doomberg is not a short term trader and so he needed to stick with his own method
For me - I actually scalp bought above 8802 - as it was a scalp buy with 98 being the stop.
I then commented under 8114 was a scalp sell - with other trades possible in between
Finally and most importantly - I said at approx 11.00am last night -
Old YESTERDAY, 10:55PM #86
Forexmospherian
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Coming up to 11.00 pm and update as not waiting up for the 12.30am Inflation data news
It should stay under 8810 now - so can you let it bounce and sell it like mad ;-)
I suppose its all going to be set up for the news - as perfect excuse.
If it is going to be a sell off after news - i thought they would try higher first.
Similar if he market is trying to get bears in prior to news - could that be the opposite set up - for good data to then bounce it up over 8840+
That to me would be gambling time - trading that news prior to the release
To keep all guessing - price should stay above 8780 now and just range up to 8800 - to tease all and sundry
Anyway - its all history now and i did not make money out of the main rise - and i was fast asleep in bed - dreaming of Lola 🙂
Regards
F
Yeah not everything you said was wrong.
To be fair you did mention a few times about not trading pre-release,
then later on changed that.
I'm not having a pop for the sake of it.
I don't think you are a vendor in waiting or anything.
The point I am highlighting is the dangers of not emphasising the risks
well enough and commentating based on your own trade style,
which doom clearly was not initially using.
Thats all I'm saying.
Bear in mind the dangers of people listening to what you say.
TBH that is why I rarely comment on price related stuff, for this
very reason.
I only ever do so to urge caution when the risk looks excessive.
I used to post on a few UK stock forums a good few years ago now,
I stopped this type of posting when I became aware that some people
were taking it as more than just another worthless opinion.
Hopefully you can see where I am coming from.
For me at least, that is the root cause of posts like this.
I've read too many horror stories of people doing dumb stuff like
going all in or with too high a risk, based on what someone on a forum said...