Tuesday 17th June 2014 - Pre Opens
Good Morning FX Intraday Traders
Before I update - review and suggest intraday scalp trades I am looking at - I think its about time I update a few points for any new members following
1. First of all - this thread is not really for total newbie traders with less than say a year or two of basic trading experience etc
2. I an predominately a full time intraday scalper taking 10 -20 trades a day on purely main FX pairs - using stops of 3 -7 pips ( 5 pips on average) and aiming for targets of 7 -25+ pips - ideally under 30 mins.
3. I use advanced money management methods and in most cases leave 30% stake on with stops already in profit if I see the possibility of larger moves working.
4. On average based on multi thousands of scalps over many years my success rate based on batches of 100 trades - ranges from a low 62% to a high 87% - so 70 -75% is maybe a mean average. I can have some days when I take say 14 trades and get 100% correct - other days I can have 2- 4 bad losing trades - but losses are part of the game - you just keep them as small as possible and accept them
5. I am not a trade advisory thread - the main reason I share my day is because it helps me to focus as trading can be very boring - and its good keep notes and look back
6. In busy periods and if we have say 2- 4 traders all commenting - please refresh your browser every 30 seconds to update and see all the comments
7. I trade normally in both directions and if I dont make a minimum 5 or 7 pips target - I will pull with any profit. PROFIT is my main goal - ie not to have losing days - my normal target daily target is 50 pips - some days it's easy and I can make 70 -200+ pips - other days I can take say 17 trades - and struggle to make 40 pips
8 All questions are welcome -as long as they are about intraday forex trading etc
9. I dont do one to one coaching etc etc - but will try and help and assist if I can
Good Luck - have a great day - I normally do
Regards
F