dear cable my "exactly" referred to "ScapGF, you're the one who doubted that the movement was there. What one is able to capture is a whole other matter. moarla does not have to prove anything, as the discussion started out with questioning if the zig-zag movement was even there to begin with."
I don't doubt you trade well. but it seems you are scalping I hate scalping, I trade much better than you, I increase position size but only collect 30 pips I work less, and make same as you see. you don't know everything
what is scalping? i take from minimum 10 tiks a trade to 30 and also 80 pips a trade... thats not scalping in my view...
But i will stop tgis useless discussion: that was the 1. treat i answered. There should be no question about that FOREX moves faster and makes more moves during day than ES or stocks. If we all agree on that , ok, if not ok. Back to trading.
Consistently? Extremely unlikely, I'd challenge anyone to produce 300 to 500 profitable pips of actual market moves on Eur/Usd daily on a regular basis. If that's what you're suggesting you do then I'm sorry I simply don't believe you, no-one with any trading experience would believe such a tall story just on someone's word.
I agree that consistently capturing 300-500 pips of movement in EUR.USD would be very, very close to impossible. I shall not say never, but I'll believe it when I see it (or a statement, rather). But I would assume that in this case it would refer to lots of 100k or 6E-contracts of 125k, which would mean 40-50 pips when you're trading 1m size. Still an extremely impressive feat, of course.
That's deceiving. So anyone who makes 20 pips with 50 lots (5m) is making 1,000 pips? I think by definition a 'pip' is generally accepted as meaning an actual move in price, that's the way I've always seen it anyway.
1 pip or tick is from 1.2540 to 1.2541 so ticks means price improvment not gain improvment. if you trade 1 contract or 1000, 1 tick is 1 tick
At least we agree on something, perhaps we should quit while we're ahead So this would be 49 pips of market moves, irrespective of how many lots were traded....