Glad to see you are in profit on the journal OP. That is something of an achievement on ET from what I can see. Was the inside bar trading thing...
Can you really get anywhere near competing with professional high frequency traders as a retail trader? Can you even get anything like accurate...
Most of us are probably aware that candle patterns can look very different on different time frames; for example a bull trend on a 5 minute chart...
Thanks for the kind comments padutrader . Yes, I am looking for simple setups that have a positive edge. Simple usually seems better to me in...
Returning to your original question – yes, I am reading the first Al Brooks book at the moment, in fact going through it for the second time now....
Thanks volpri for your continuing and interesting journal. My discretionary day trading is improving; I do have an automated system that has...
Thanks very much volpri; I have spent the last two or three weeks at odd times working through this entire thread, all 96 pages of it, as it is...
I wish your country well, whatever the outcome.
Thanks to all those who replied to my comments. It has been an interesting insight.
Yes that is clearly true ;).
Actually most news outlets in the UK have a very right wing bias, and still not a lot of support for Trump. Yes we certainly have our share of...
I am from the UK, but from here Trump looks a really awful person. I know from comments here that most people here will vote for him, but can I...
Well, nearly. I think the very use of the words 'rally' and 'selloff' in your earlier post imply something about the markets that not all people...
Ok; so you can have an edge without being profitable by your definition? To me, having an edge is having some kind of systematic approach that...
I would have thought that a trading strategy leading to that outcome is exactly what an edge is.
Odd that nobody has actually answered this question in a post, but I suppose people are a bit shy on here ;) I have been profitable (just) for...
Everything went fine today, started bang on time; apart from the system went for a buy on a mean reversion, and promptly lost 100 points. Isn't...
The easiest quick fix is the Outlook alarm system of Abbotale. If I set a reminder at 12 every day, it will be fine. In the meantime, I'll look...
I use IG for spread betting, so their API.
Yes there are ways and means of course, and things do gradually get better. There are always complications though - the API tokens I use are only...
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