Well, to be honest - no. I would just call it a neutral trade.
The point of my post was that I believe very few people are able to sit and watch a 127 pip profit disappear while sticking exactly to the set stop level.
Splitting the trade into small lots and taking the profit at different levels seems a sound strategy as pointed out by Greenfield. It seems to ring the bells for Greenfield. That's the great thing about this thread, learning from other people's experiences :smart:
Anyway, on to other things - sorry to be asking so many questions.
This one for those of you who use Alpari platform. To be honest with you, I don't think that the spreads are generally that special and I find that extra digit added on the end annoying and confusing. I think ok, use it when opening the order window but is it really necessary on the charts?
At the moment the GBP/USD is 1.6536, but shows with Alpari as 1.65364.
Using the demo account, I've been playing with trailing stoplosses and was getting confused as it didn't seem to be working right. Am I right that if you want to put in place a trailing stoploss of 50 pips that you have to enter it as 500 to take into account the extra digit?
The difference between 1.65364 and 1.65464 is 10 pips as far as I'm concerned, not 100.
Now another Sniper question.
I get the pop up alerts of imminent and entry into a trade.
I assumed that the imminent alert is triggered when the lines all change to the same colour and the arrow appears.
Then the entry alert is triggered when both histograms are also the same colour.
Now I would read this as "Take the trade now", but invariably when I look at the chart after receiving these alerts, one or other of the histogram bars are the wrong colour. I assumed that at the time the entry alert is triggered that all conditions have been met and in the time it's taken me to look at the chart, one of the bars has changed, so I should still take the trade
This is a copy of the last alert
2009.08.20 11:00:05 Sniper EURUSD,H1: Alert: Short entry on EURUSD, H1, 2009.08.20 11:00, Bid=1.42222
Ignore the time as this is Thailand, it was 5AM Uk time.
This time when I looked at the chart (almost immediately),
both the histograms were blue. I find it hard to believe that they both changed in a matter of seconds!
If all conditions are not met when the entry alert is triggered, does that mean that it is not really an entry alert, but another imminent alert?
Something even more confusing - the last 2 alerts that were triggered....
2009.08.20 12:00:04 Sniper GBPUSD,H1: Alert: Imminent
short trade alert on GBPUSD, H1, 2009.08.20 12:00, Bid=1.65226
2009.08.20 12:00:10 Sniper GBPUSD,H1: Alert: Imminent
long trade alert on GBPUSD, H1, 2009.08.20 12:00, Bid=1.65237
I imminent short alert and an imminent long alert within a split second of each other.
That doesn't seem right somehow - does everyone get this or is there something wrong here.
I think that I will copy this and paste into an email to Gary to see what he has to say.
Happy trading people