Sure, they'll shift quotes (within reason) to wherever is the most profitable and/or convenient for them according to their book, their liquidity providers quotes, and the underlying market, that's the nature of the bucketshop's game. The idea that they quote individually or shift quotes to hunt one trader's stop is ridiculous though, it just doesn't happen.
There is definitely no proven correlation between brains and success in trading The more probable personality trait for success is sixth sense for the markets - in other words, experience I do agree that 99% will fail But that's what we want! If no one failed, who would I be taking money from???
this is awesome...just netted the largest pip trade of my life...exit my GBP/USD short @ 1.6415...got 50 pips...wow...I need to really 'do again and again' what I did right on this trade and reproduce 'over and over'... just as a side note...this also was my first ever 'non manual' forex trade...meaning I entered and set my exit and 'went on to do normal life' stuff...just checked my account and YES...50 pip profit...this is awesome...beginnning to realise...you 'aint gonna' make any real cash $$ trying to scalp forex...anyone else ever realise this?
Congrats. Real money is in bigger moves. Scalping is indispensable for learning price action/patterns. Once learned, best to apply on longer term charts (15 mins+) for more aggressive risk:reward.
That sounds like fighting talk, I feel a wager coming on Here achilles28, have you ever traded options?
LOL! Seems I can't get away with anything around here!! Options? Can't say I have. Anything interesting??
I was chatting with a guy the other day who trades options, it was all new to me but it certainly sounded interesting. He was trading currency indexes by the sound of it, and gold I thnk he said. I don't know anything about puts and calls but he gave me an example of a gold trade where the bet was that gold would not go above $2000 in the next 2 months (pretty much a no-brainer), and as long as it doesn't then he makes $1500. It sounded too easy to me. That's probably an oversimplification because there were all sorts of things like spreads and 'time decay', but the idea seems interesting.
By chance was this JohnG? Big world and all, but JohnG was a regular poster over on DailyFx before it got polluted and what you said above was his approach to option trading the currencies and gold. He offered some great insight to trading the GBP pairs.
I only know the elementary stuff - calls, puts, writing. The "Greeks" are greek to me Sounds like the dude was selling gold calls with a $2K 'strike'. I've heard most options expire worthless, so the money is made (presumably) selling Deep-out-of-the-money options, long or short. And hope they don't get hit. Betting a catastrophic meltdown won't occur and collect modest premium, day-in, day-out, sold to buyers who want black swan insurance. I think thats how Niederhoffer blew up. And Taleb took the other side (invested 10% in puts), which paid off during the crash.