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New to the markets and trading. Looking forward to learning and discussing on forex trading with everyone!

 

Cheers.

 

Hello kahar786,

 

Welcome to this community. Here you get experience trader also good opportunity to learn. :missy:

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Good day!

 

My first experience of binary options trading was in MarketsWorld, just trial and testing.. Since then, I had been trading for quite some time but I really feel that my knowledge in trading is not that yet fully develop. And I really want to get tips and strategy from pro traders.

 

Hello AnthonyJHuges,

 

welcome to this community. Hope here you get tips and strategy from pro traders :missy:

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Hello all! Happy to be here, I been reading the forum for a while without becoming a member...but now here I am!

 

Hoping to keep learning and also to start my own journal.

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Hi All,

 

I swing trade stocks using algorithms based on:

 

  • Robert Krausz's interpretation of Gann (Krausz omits the parts of Gann often considered esoteric)
  • The Ross Hook
  • Mean Reversion
  • Volatility Reversion
  • Jeff Augen's perspectives on volatility
  • Multiple Time-Frame Analysis, e.g. that of Brian Shannon
  • Identification of wedges and symmetrical triangles
    (I'm not much on traditional patterns, but find these two to be strong)

 

I'm developing a personal trading program focused on:

  • intraday swings from analysis of 5, 30, & 120 minute charts AND
  • option selling and synthetic positions for multi-day trades, hedged/managed intra-day

 

I'm now trading full time and working to funnel the perspectives I've acquired over several years of sporadic part-time trading into a daily trading plan that adapts changing market conditions, selecting from numerous algorithms and implementation approaches that I've used and am familiar with.

 

At this point, I think the trading algorithms that I'm familiar with are quite good, and while I'd like to continue to improve them and learn new ones, I find that day-to-day what I need to do most is:

 

  • Find ways to make optimal use of my trading account, while maintaing sound money management, per Van Tharp's 'Definitive Guide to Position Sizing' -- find degrees of risk that are most profitable and that I'm comfortable with;
  • Find ways to reduce the amount of time researching tradables, thinking through strategic alternatives, and finally deciding what to do. I'm still learning, and enjoying that, but need to do this more mechanically on a day-to-day basis;
  • Find trading approaches that reduce the amount time I feel it necessary to watch real-time price charts;

 

The above can be summarized as an attempt to develop, maintain & apply trading knowledge in the most effective way, i.e. w/ the greatest profit over the least time expended. The stronger that foundation, the more confidence I should have in risking money in markets, and the more profitablly I would expect to trade.

 

So I hope this site helps me think through questions like -

o Is scalping a good strategy for these goals ?

o Are multi-week positions also appropriate for these goals ?

 

I hope that people here are interested in similar things, and I'd like to contribute to discussion when that could be helpful.

 

Regards, aka_aka

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New to the markets and trading. Looking forward to learning and discussing on forex trading with everyone!

 

Cheers.

welcome Kahar, I'm indonesian. hope we can get along well since we are neighbour :).

take your first step with learning material.

have a nice day.

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Hi Everyone

 

Relatively new the trading world - although I did dabble in currency trading years ago.

 

Site seems very informative and friendly - and I would like to gain as much insight as I can, in order to make an honest living out of it :)

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Hello new traders,

 

Thought i'm new on this forum, I'd like to give a word of wisdom through my journey of trading

 

Success is measured by your current status. If you've had losses (we've all had) I was trading in the famed flash crash of 2010 and lost, that was a lesson for me to study volatility and history. These two aspects of the market are absolutely essential to study.

 

I believe personally that we are heading into a deflationary economic situation and would advise you to not be long on the majority of your positions, its already a traders market. Remember that being on the sidelines waiting for the right trade is a position in itself. He who runs from a fight lives to fight another day is an adage ive come to appreciate in my current trading of commodities.

 

Common and cliche as it may seem too, "dont put all your eggs in one basket"

 

Also, if you have gains, take them. Cut your losses at 7%

Your current status is not giving up, that is awesome I highly respect that. Its like a marathon runner getting back up after falling and losing his first place.

 

Be selective with your trades, small gains make large profits.

 

Another thing to remember, during the gold rushes throughout history, men looked for the large gold nuggets, only to leave disheartened from the area, while others found "flour gold" this is microscopic gold that others passed over. An adage that came from that profit was , "Gold flour makes gold cakes"

 

Small victories are your key.

a stock operators memo

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Hello everybody,

 

just want to say hello. I'm a beginning trader from germany, who is going to make it. :D

But my first trade is still awaiting me. Reading books like "Beating the the forex dealer",

"Reminiscenes of a Stock operator" or "Flash Boys" made it clear to me, that the markets

are like a swimming pool full of sharks and that the pros are out there to get me. So I'm still

in study-mode, preparing ...

 

On one side the possibility of making some money is driving me to the markets, on the

other non-mundane side is that I would like to know myself (e.g. emotions) better. I

imagine that I can play the markets just by centered perception and acting without thought.

 

Looking forward to have a good time here.

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Hello everybody,

 

just want to say hello. I'm a beginning trader from germany, who is going to make it. :D

But my first trade is still awaiting me. Reading books like "Beating the the forex dealer",

"Reminiscenes of a Stock operator" or "Flash Boys" made it clear to me, that the markets

are like a swimming pool full of sharks and that the pros are out there to get me. So I'm still

in study-mode, preparing ...

 

On one side the possibility of making some money is driving me to the markets, on the

other non-mundane side is that I would like to know myself (e.g. emotions) better. I

imagine that I can play the markets just by centered perception and acting without thought.

 

Looking forward to have a good time here.

 

de_Grommet, Welcome to Traderslaboratory.

Don't be afraid to ask questions.

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From time to time I on board to various trading forums and also a few online trading venues but none which have provided me with any real workable knowledge, which mostly wasted my time though they did try to get their hands in my pocket a few times. I can tell you this: It is better to use the capital to fund your account and become familiar with the market you trade than hand it over to some black box. As with anything of value and purpose it takes time to Master. I mean no one I know popped out of their mother's womb running in a dead sprint. Also a word of advice: If you have a strategy and you still find yourself looking at you tube videos, or someone's literature or website ... then you are NOT ready. Instead I advise you to return to what YOU created and work with it. Before long the light bulb will go off and you will have your EUREKA moment. But don't get a big head about it. Keep your cool and move forward ..STEP BY STEP.

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