Forexmospherian
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Hope you get it sorted F
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I think the keys are
1 multi trading method - I mean not just 3 or 5 trades a day - but ideally 10 to 30 trades over say 5 -8 hrs
2. Targets - 7 -25+ pips and stops in profit on runners - ie a win / win then
3. Stops 3 -7 pips - but dont rely or use them - get out minus 2 or breakeven and re enter if it goes your way
4. No real bias - ie think - anything could happen - normally it does
5. Have targets and know when 3 or 4 bad trades in a row - stop for 30 -60 mins
6. Every 500 trades - you should get better
7. Dont lose more than 30% of your winnings - so if up $500 - you only have $150 max to carry on with in session
8, Never have a losing day - and if you do - ask yourself why ??? not enough winners or lack of time ??
Theres loads more - but the above works - ask MM 🙂
Just been looking back over the last month - just to see how many dissers/ haters and general non believers this thread gets and come across this multi nic member who seems to have disappeared in the wind - but I am sure will be back some day
What interested me the most with this member was his nic - ie 10000 hrs
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Now any proper trader who as actually done their 10k hrs on the charts - which will take anything from 4 to 10 yrs to achieve - all depending out much time you spend a week - ie just 15 hrs a week or 50 + hrs a week - will know for certain - that I am the real deal and can read price with the very best in the business
OK - I dont think Major Magnum has achieved his 10k hrs yet - maybe 3k + BUT - he has been taught by me - and so thats saved him at least 5k hrs of having to find out all the things I found out whilst studying the 1 min charts during my first 3 years
Anyway - going back to the Plonker who posted that comment - you are completely wrong - and why dont you admit it - rather than run off and hide to another day.
Meanwhile I will just let MM's real live statements do the talking - after all he was the student - and now over 18 months later - he's going on to being mighty consistent - as well as extremely profitable on a small live account. I just hope he does NOT do what I did that set me back over 6 months - ie try over 20 -25 lots a pip and then get psyched out - stay with the small lots - and even never going over 3 lots a pip ( ie $30 a pip ) - he could still make over $10k+ per week on an ongoing basis - purely based on his results over the last 3 months etc
Dont let the Hedge Fund rubbish ( they only work with multi millions - not under $50k - ie chalk and cheese comparisons ) and compounding ( don't keep doing it ) - ruin an excellent strategy that takes easily 6 -9 months to learn - but once you have got it - its works day in day out in any market conditions - making it fairly unique - much to the annoyance of the dissers / haters / commercials etc etc
Regards
F,
Ive been rummaging around for ages after the swissy fall out for some kind of max position size ideas, I used to trade quite chunky £per point occasionally, but not after that fall out, (I don't trade the swissy at all), is that $30 per pip, based on a $40k account, I seem to recall you mentioning at one point or other.
Iam aware of the 1-2% risk rules but that can still give you a hefty position if your technical stop is quite small.
Apologies for jumping mid thread as it were.
Cheers
Just ignore the haters , i make 500 pips plus day in day out and i dont care about these posts ....
Just been looking back over the last month - just to see how many dissers/ haters and general non believers this thread gets and come across this multi nic member who seems to have disappeared in the wind - but I am sure will be back some day
What interested me the most with this member was his nic - ie 10000 hrs
![]()
Now any proper trader who as actually done their 10k hrs on the charts - which will take anything from 4 to 10 yrs to achieve - all depending out much time you spend a week - ie just 15 hrs a week or 50 + hrs a week - will know for certain - that I am the real deal and can read price with the very best in the business
OK - I dont think Major Magnum has achieved his 10k hrs yet - maybe 3k + BUT - he has been taught by me - and so thats saved him at least 5k hrs of having to find out all the things I found out whilst studying the 1 min charts during my first 3 years
Anyway - going back to the Plonker who posted that comment - you are completely wrong - and why dont you admit it - rather than run off and hide to another day.
Meanwhile I will just let MM's real live statements do the talking - after all he was the student - and now over 18 months later - he's going on to being mighty consistent - as well as extremely profitable on a small live account. I just hope he does NOT do what I did that set me back over 6 months - ie try over 20 -25 lots a pip and then get psyched out - stay with the small lots - and even never going over 3 lots a pip ( ie $30 a pip ) - he could still make over $10k+ per week on an ongoing basis - purely based on his results over the last 3 months etc
Dont let the Hedge Fund rubbish ( they only work with multi millions - not under $50k - ie chalk and cheese comparisons ) and compounding ( don't keep doing it ) - ruin an excellent strategy that takes easily 6 -9 months to learn - but once you have got it - its works day in day out in any market conditions - making it fairly unique - much to the annoyance of the dissers / haters / commercials etc etc
Regards
F,
Ive been rummaging around for ages after the swissy fall out for some kind of max position size ideas, I used to trade quite chunky £per point occasionally, but not after that fall out, (I don't trade the swissy at all), is that $30 per pip, based on a $40k account, I seem to recall you mentioning at one point or other.
Iam aware of the 1-2% risk rules but that can still give you a hefty position if your technical stop is quite small.
Apologies for jumping mid thread as it were.
Cheers
Hi Shadowman
It was back in 2008 /9 and I had an account at GFT Uk that I managed to get up to approx £170k.
I had gone up from 1 lot to 5 lots and then 10 lots per pip over 6 - 9 months with no real problem.
I then got too avaricious and wanted over £150 a pip which in those days was approx 22 lots. Unfortunately I hit a bad spell -ie first time I had 7 consecutive bad trades and my stops were then between 7 and 10 pips and if I remember correctly 2 of the bad trades spiked me for like 12 -14 pips and so suddenly the previous weeks profitable trading was blown out the water.
I was not used to big losses in a session and it did my head in .
It took me over 6 month to even try 5 lots per pip again. Since then I have kept under 10 lots a pip and most days don't even venture over 6 -8 lots with a £35 - 45 K capital account - which on an average 5 pip stop is still under 2%
In fact many of my scalps are on 0 3 to 1% of account size - as then no stress and I can treat my account like a demo - no palpitations etc ;-).
Once my stops are in profit I can then pyramid and peel and if I am up well and feeling comfortable scalp again up to 6 lots
I know far more about the market today then I did 6 years ago - but at my age not wanted to go anywhere near 20 + lot again. I stay within my comfort zone - and enjoy intraday trading and if any pressure mounts - just reduce size
Good Trading
Regards
F
F,
I think you care too much about the haters.
A lot of people have set ways and think only at a certain level, others through their own failure want others to fail too, to validate their view of how difficult it can be. Then, as I mentioned before, we have people who are too lazy and even if they thought following something might be worthwhile they would not put the time required to make it happen.
Most people unfortunately fall in to some versions of the above and would like to pay $299 for a full proof system and click buttons without responsibility until it goes wrong and then they are not to blame other than they bought the wrong system and can try again. Many are gamblers, not to be confused with traders and then many here it appears are just total bonkers. I have read many thoughts and wonder of their logic and find they did not trade the idea themselves or are paper trading. (not to have a go at all paper traders, but I believe people do not make the same decisions with real money and lessons are learned faster when there is some pain).
I have been trading on and off for 20+ years and have recently (year or so but more this year) been scalping mainly Dax. I look at just a couple of things to aid me and the rest as you say is coalface experience, I don't trade what I think, I just trade what I see. I can watch the action and could draw my own graph of what I have seen. I am sure you can understand me as some other guys writing here can. Last week I had 450+ Dax trades at a win ratio of 85%. I also run my own business at the same time, so can miss half days etc.
It seems that people who trade successfully do not always frequent forums and many people who do are looking for holy grails or want others to fail so they feel ok. I think you have a good core of people who follow your thread who believe it to be beneficial and it is easy to see they are conscientious and put genuine effort to follow and understand what you do and even parts of what you do (then there are the people who believe in you and want the EU levels. I made good pips on EU and some on GU last week thanks).
The haters well they gonna hate here or elsewhere in life and are not open to improvement or to learn something different. For people to comment without putting in a decent effort to try and understand is just ignorant. This is life but in the interwebz people get braver and ruder as they wont get a stiff arm to the jaw.
So it might be annoying but try and block out the haters as it takes your effort and from a selfish point of view clogs your thread when I refresh i hope to read something relevant and not just crap.
Anyway I for one have greatly enjoyed your thread to date and will continue to read and hopefully learn more from you. As I said before even the camaraderie from coming here and spending part of the day with sharing the travails of fellow traders is a lot of fun and makes a solitary business more fun.
Keep up with your remarkable posting ability and I hope to be able to keep up most days reading and joining in a bit more. Best of luck and good luck to all the regular friends of the thread.
Nick
You must be an expert retail forex trader then. 🙂