When I went from trend trading daily charts to trading 1 min charts the biggest thing I had to get over was the impulse to hold a trade open. As...
You're all heart ;-) @iamnewuser911 a lot depends on how you manage the outcome rather than the entry. That all looks like a big mess to me...
a) Buy support in uptrends and sell resistance in down trends. Put your stop loss behind the last support or resistance you traded away from....
Yes a lot of the shiftier ones will have "offices" in the US which if you went there would turn out to be a broom cupboard in the back of some...
I'm just trying out Oanda as I've been having a lot of slippage on my current broker. They offer spread betting accounts for UK customers so tax...
And not German in the slightest! Well, maybe a bit... ;-)
So would you say you're optimistic about the future then?
Fair enough, I didn't bother clicking the link.
I started out by getting information from forums and ended up a profitable trader. The information that helped me get there wasn't exclusively...
@wtfauoa your stubbornness in insisting on only considering one instrument does not make sense as @Xela quite rightly says. I day trade the dax...
@WSWarrior don't dismiss the information on public trading forums too quickly, there is a lot of golden information available for free out there....
I agree with the above but only to a degree. To my mind trend is the overall movement of the market and momentum is the individual up and down...
@comagnum they're not trendlines, they're an example of something the name of which escapes me at the moment. Not worth bothering with anyway, as...
Well I think I did a bit of both ;-) . Could you not just short the index ETF? Or maybe think about other markets such as gold or forex? Agreed I...
If it's all going down why not just select a basket and short the lot? Or if you're asking for investment/gambling advice on a forum why not give...
Absolute markets as opposed to relative markets such as forex do tend to fall faster than they rise. Is there any advantage for a short term, say...
@Zodiac4u agreed that trading is as simple as the trader makes it and can be done simply and yet still profitably but certain traders will always...
Good points above. You know already it's hard to profit with smaller winners than losers (generally speaking but not necessarily so as always)....
I don't know much about options but if it's about holding a trade longer then I find mechanical exits to be quite useful. I will quite often take...
Agreed the price went up eventually but my trade south worked out first, bounced almost exactly at Fridays low (on my broker) so would have been...
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