Intraday Live short term trading calls from an Expert Retail Forex Trader

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Just noticed I have 3 messages in my in box. Sorry guys - cannot reply or thank you for your support - as I promised I would not do any private messaging on T2W - and therefore will keep to my promise

But thank you and you are welcome to follow me here and ask questions / queries etc and I will do my best to reply and answer them

Good trading to you

Regards

F
 
EJ - nice - now down to 131.62/3 - which is also another support area. Taken all of scalp sell off as out in next 30 mins and of course - big news items ;-))

GL if you hold
 
just gone 3,30pm UK time and only got back in last 15 mins. EJ -broke up above R's and previous highs and also above an area I thought it might stall at 132.10 - 12.

Present high at 132. 24 and above more R's at 36 to 40 . Whilst above 132. 08 - still looks bullish for now - scalp buy bias - but going to get ready for another trade in next time windows just prior to the next hour change for now

Further drops on EU and GU - with swissy pair up due to dollar strength

next planned trade will be out shortly ;-)
 
EJ still trying to go above the high and cut off is 14 now if you are in scalp buys - which of course really - you should be - with 17 mins to hr change
 
struggling at 24/5 - need to see EJ try higher before hour change but suggest whilst its stalling take at least 60% of your scalp buy scalp off - just in case it pulls back 4 -7 pips
 
This is were you have to look at your own method here on EJ - if you are in a scalp buy from 91 or 132,00 - you dont mind a 10 pip pullback - but if you have only scalped above 08 or 12 - like I have coming to the party late - you want profit and also as a scalper am aware that at 21 - you can scalp sell and hold on if it goes under 14 for around 08.

For now we can only scalp buy - or hold one on over 25 again as coming up to the hr change - this is a time window and many might be taking profit - after all EJ as risen nearly 90 pips from just before Opens - but still not near a ADTR - of normally 120 -180+ pips

Decisions - decisions - and of course the market will tease and try and catch you out - what ever you do ;-))
 
133.27 was it for now - exited the rest at 22 and looking now at LH's and LLs saying scalp sell and hold under 14 and 08 - or just take what you can get on scalp
 
Well EJ went under 08 - but came out at 09 on 70% off and will leave rest on under 17

Here's a chart attached as well
 

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Did not need to use stop in profit at 17 - EJ got to 132.02 in the end - and then I my system 06 was a scalp buy - and so just exited the other 30% - but not entered the scalp buy - as too slow to get in and price I needed

Shame as it as gone up to 17+ and so missed the scalp buy but as we are coming up to the half hr change - will not just jump in - even if we do go over 20 and test the highs again
 
My hesitance and also risk averseness as meant I missed out on that new high - shame - but ay no problem - easy over 50+ pips today so I dont have to push myself now ;-)
 
Hi Spinola - I use a few different charts on each pair I scalp trade - 1 naked so just see to exact price and structure - and then my LR spaghetti chart that helps me determine strength of moves - with more Lrs under price saying up a more over saying down

My set up is very complex with information overload as well as using a stop watch as well to assist on changes in robot settings used by the liquidity supplier of the session

I just dont see trading as simple - and if you use simple methods - you dont get the accuracy and the high RR's etc - nor the high probabilities set ups

Instead KISS methods result in simple results - ie you break even or make low average returns monthly or quarterly

So many traders have still not got it that say for example a 17 pip win with a 5 pip stop and RR of over 3 is so much more profitable and efficient to a 100 pip win and a 50 pip stop - RR 2 and takes too long and so inefficient for compounding and growing account quickly.

Hope that explains why i use busy cluttered overload charts ( as well as plain) as I am 100% technical trader and for short term day trading - funny mentals are just a waste of time ;-))

Cheers

Regards

F

PS - thank you again the guys who have PM''d me - I promised I would not use PM's so will not be replying to them - but all questions etc can be asked in the forum etc - but no I dont do alerts or sell anything etc etc - but can give general assistance with your trading journey

PPS - will reply to a few other questions over weekend including Random's one on commissions and spreads etc etc
 
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Forexmospherian said:
Morning Guys

The EJ is a pair of interest prior to the Opens

Its been falling approx 440 pips over this last few weeks and is now down near a lot of support areas around the 131.05 to 20 areaa - that have been used before for tries back up

Low so far at 131 .21 and according to the 1 hr chart - we would need back over dynamic resistance over 63 -66 to be trying backup.

We have had a HL as well at 131.29 and are at present in scalp buy buy bias from 131. 42.
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This is part of the comment 437 and 7,02 am UK time this morning.

The EJ by the end of the day peaked at at 132.53 - so over 110 pips higher and i got over half that number - with some of the profit pips coming from scalp sells on the way up.

No way at the beginning of the day did I know it would go up that high - I only find high probabilities on movements every 30 -60 mins and for me trying to predict 12 hrs ahead with any certainty means you are a fortune teller or more likely a "guesser" thinking 50 /50 forecasts are the way to trade.

Did not do much at all on the EU and GU - as was not about for main NFP news and had no "free trade " sells left on - which I suppose shows i was not really focused enough - plus the fact amazed at the main news the players did not try at least a 50 pip spike up to take out bear trailing stops - they missed out there ;-))

Have a great weekend

Regards

F
 
Forexmospherian said:
Hi FXPunt - a very good question - and i will give you my own thoughts - which of course might be different to many other traders .

First of all - i have in the back of my mind the stronger pairs and the weaker pairs and then look at some of the crosses like the EG
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a very gd question indeed, & in response a very well articulated, succinct outline of your strategy.

so, you did say the back of your mind? not the front? let me draw that up on a chart.
 
Hi rsh01 - You have puzzled me on that one - but I will explain - why I said "in the back of my mind"

You might have gathered if you are read any of my comments that I don't think trading is simple and as a short term intraday trader the past to me does not count too much.

Trend can change in a minute - so even if the monthly weekly daily four hour have been saying the trend is down - thats does not mean that a new up trend cannot start with just a rise of 3 pips.

In fact above 3 pips is a trend - so if the trend is your friend - my friends are the tick charts up to last hour charts and I take more regard for what they are saying than I do of a monthly or weekly etc ;-)

Anything over 15 pips in movement is great as far as I am concerned as it offers a trade with a good RR - ie 3 or even more - and if a movement goes 35 or 45 pips - well that'e heaven - especaily if within 30 or 60 mins as a possibility of an RR of 7 - 10 - so 1 per cent risk and you could have 7 -10% increase in return in under 1 hr - and then bank it ;-)

So when I hear the dollar is strengthening this month and the Euro is weakening- I think in the back of my mind - Ok so my Euro scalp sells should give me more pips than my Euro scalp buys ;-)

But no way would it encourage me to just trade in one direction only - why should it ???

After all if a trend is over 3 pips in movement - there are lots of trends every hour and every day - I just want to make sure I ride a few in the correct direction

Hope that explains a bit more - i am very much into trading now and the future - and the past days and weeks too me are not on my top 3 list of clues to what goes on in the next 15 or 30 minutes ;-)

Will get on to spread commissions and compounding and other issuse raised this week a bit later on - or certainly over the weekend - I have had enough of shopping and domestic chores for now ;-))


Regards

F
 
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RE - Compounding in Forex trading - several traders have really had a go at me saying that if you are good as you say and do 30-50% gains every month - then you would be worth billions by now ( or even 100's of millions).

Well sorry to disappoint you guys - but as I have said many times already - I hit my "compounding financial wall" approx 4 yrs ago at 22 lots. - and did it do my head in :-((

I had managed to go up through the gears from just under 1 lot up to 10 lots - with no real problem

Then i got over 14 lots and the problems started with GFT Uk taking anything from 20 - 50 seconds to get my orders on - i complained - but at that time there were not so many ECN brokers - and they actually said - it had to be verified / manually that my account could take the stake before it was entered into the market ( yes true)

I do know of one trader using Barclay's Capital who placed a 1500 lot trade on the GU on the last election day a few year ago - and it was over 1 hr before all of it was placed on . Normal retail brokers in the UK do not allow internet order over approx £500 per pip.

He risked just over $150k out of his capital and in the end just cleared a half a million dollars win after leaving it on for approx 6 hrs. but similar to the entry - was not allowed to exit with just a few minutes.

Now I have questioned this -but the guy has no reason to lie - as he's worth over £50 million and as a £2 million a year gambling budget that he uses on many products from forex to even the fruit machines in Vegas - ie the ones with the $100k + payouts.

With these delays on larger stakes - you cannot take 2 - 5 min scalp trades with really large orders - unless you are a bank or HFT player - and even then i reckon its not so clear cut etc.

Going back to me - i for the next 6 months had to go back down to just 5 lots to get my confidence back.

Prior to over 20 and 22 lots - i had not suffered more than 4 losses in a row and so my psych was shattered when I had a run of 7 bad trades in a row - and then on 2 wins - and another 4 losses again

I had never experience it prior in probably over 2OO0 trades - but it happened - and exactly when I was on my largest lots - and it nearly made me totally give up and forget trading.

Since then I have worked my way back up to just over 10 lots - but even with more experience and knowledge and even better MM - I am still not comfortable - and so rather than fighting it - I just trade under my "mind limit" and don't have to worry about the palpitations and the stress

OK if i was 20 -30 yrs younger - i would go through all the mind therapy and hypnosis stuff and see if I could get over my "financial wall" again. If i was trading the banks millions - it would probably be easier - but when you have $10k plus come off your account in under a day - you do normally start to think - is it for you and your own money?

Sorry to have to spill the beans but the chances of going from say a few dollars a pip to 100+ full lots per pip - and using the same strategy over 2 - 5 yrs etc - are near impossible - got to be 1000's and 1000's to one for any trader to do that as far as I am concerned.

That why in demo contests you can put your account up several hundreds of percent in a week and even 5000% plus in a month - no fear

The largest increase I have seen in a live trading account is over 3300% in just one month by a Far East woman trader ( FXIron contest) and she took the money rather than the first price of a Ferrari 360.

Now I can even take a live account up several thousand percent in a month - starting from $100 or $500 capital account - but once you get over $4000 - $5000 and you are on leverage of over 500 to 1 and you know your compounding strategy means you could lose it all in just a few consecutive losses - then it gets harder and you cannot maintain it.

So those guys who can work wonders on a small account - cannot - repeat cannot achieve the same results on a $100k+ live account. With regards to commercial traders working with millions - that's why they are happy with 2- 5% per month - its massive money and risk need to be well controlled.

Also commercial trading and retail trading is chalk and cheese - different ball game etc etc

Hope that explains it and I am sure we will near hear the opposite with some guy saying they have done it or know of other who have made £10 million in 3 yrs from $10k etc etc - well I am certainly not in their league they must be in the top 0.001% of retail traders ;-)))

In conclusion - nowadays I only compound on small accounts - and on my main live account - I have no plans to try and get it up to quarter of half a million in the next 6 months - instead - i will take out 50 -70% out of it every month and bank it elsewhere and then put the main account back down after every quarter .

I learn my lessons in 2008/9 - and still paying for them after the collapse of Lehmans Bros - ie the Bank that had been going what over 150 yrs - and then those "bar stewards" at GS helped close them down

Spread you risks as well - use 3 - 5 different banks etc don't trust anyone in this financial game and then you won't go too far wrong

You live and learn - you can make great money out of forex trading - but its hard and take years of dedication, study and a having the correct mindset to hit the big time - always remember that !!!

Regards

F
 
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your compounding strategy means you could lose it all in just a few consecutive losses - then it gets harder and you cannot maintain it." I'm getting confused. Even if you compounding , you risk max 2% of your account , Right? Does not matter what is your trading size , it's still 2% , max can be lost.A pip can be 10 cent or $10000 , you risk is the same , 2% .

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Hi Tdezo - the comment regarding you could lose all in a few consecutive losses ( as I quoted) is only connected to when I am compounding on very small account s - (ie under $500 capital accounts) when you are trying to put 100's or even 1000's % increases within a few weeks or months - using high leverage ( 500 to 1 + ) and up to 20%+ stakes rather than your normal 1 -3%.

As I said - i would never do that with normal proper money accounts - I would keep my stakes to under 2% and on large accounts with a multi trading scalping strat - even as low as half a percent of you account.

BUT - here's the problem - as you say the max risk of 2% of your account - cannot - certainly in my case - mean I can slowly compound up from say 10 cents to 10000 lots on a straight linear basis - all due to your own particular psych and also the fact is during that period of compounding you will have a"black swan" moment - whereby you have 7 or 10 losses in a row - instead of your normal 2 or 4 losses in a row.

We can all handle having 10 or 15 wins in a row - easy and then whan you are compounding its all rosy and great and you are on fire .

However in my case - I could not psychologically handle over 20 /22 lots per pip - my mind played games and with the extra losses - it mean I was totally uncomfortable and could not continue at compounding - believing it was effecting my strategy making it not so successful.

We know its all in the "mind" - some traders may even be able to compound up to 50 lots a pip + ( with their own money _ and continue) - others might hit their wall at 15 lots or 25 lots or some other figure even a lot lower.

I agree if you are keeping your risk the same - ie less than 2% of capital and as the capital grows your stakes increase but never over 2% - yes the theory is great - but the human brain means we all cope with it differently - and it becomes like a "mental torture" - well it did for me anyway.

Yes easy on demo - give me 10 million+ and i will trade at 2000 + lots a pip etc etc - easy .

Then put it as your own real life money - and suddenly your mind reacts totally different - and unless you have been through all the training of handling say losses of $50 or $100k in a day or so - you will not be comfortable - and suddenly you will not have the total belief in your method and every thing that as happened in the past - plus the fact your entries and exits will be delayed and totally different to what you can do with 5 lots.

That's what I found - please tell me I am completely wrong if you have been able to do it - but its what happened to me in real life - and since then I have heard of many others have similar stories etc

Regards

F
 
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i do plan to answer more of Randoms commission spread and cost question during some time day - ie when I am not watching the Moto GP and the Man U v Arsenal game or sleeping after my Sunday Lunch ;-)) - Enjoy your Sunday
 
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