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Postby dojirock » Sun Oct 27, 2013 3:47 pm

Yes! Thank you! I find I lose focus over time and can almost feel a feeling of defeat at times. Posting what I know to be true draws my focus back to trade what I know is true when other distractions tend to drag me from what has been a blessing. Its very helpful for me to interact with like traders and post to get focus back. Helping others all ways helps me also. It shows in my stats. Thank you Dragon for keeping the open door for me to come and get put back on track when I get that feeling of being lost.

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dojirock wrote:Start to finish. Applies to anytime frame (i just like the short ones) Any pair. I have my favorites though. I put the notes on each chart.


It seems like you're back on track after our skypechat ;-)
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Postby dojirock » Sun Oct 27, 2013 3:52 pm

News,

I find almost every sema on the 4hr is tradable for some points. I have developed the discipline to wait for the sema and then the RB confirmation to go using the lower time frames. Very few of my trades come late after the 1st confirmation. If I don't get in on the 1st confirmation or near it...I will wait for next sema. Not always the 4hr, sometimes the hourly. Im still a 2 time frame trader. For some reason, which I am ok with not knowing now, that 3rd time frame always throws doubt in my analysis. That doubt always causes me to trade foolishly or paralyzes me, so I don't do it anymore. Two time frames is where I have learned to find my success.
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Postby FXfreak » Sun Oct 27, 2013 7:13 pm

hi guys,

nearly a year went by as i had some webinars with doji.

His insights were really helpful but up to now i'm still not a profitable trader.

I will show my trades here in the next days/weeks/months...i hope to get some input ......i wanna see the final light...

doji, great work in the thread!! it is nice to have somebody who is successfull but sometimes also struggles with market...

guys, enjoy the day!
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Postby MightyOne » Sun Oct 27, 2013 7:24 pm

After all of your analysis, when you finally place a trade, you are left with a stop loss that only moves from poor judgement or to normalize risk after adding size.

Is price higher or lower than something & do I have a solid reason, based on experience, to reverse the bias; that is all analysis is and it all boils down into where you would place your stop.

If you are still confused then just think of bias as trading towards signals (breakouts for example) of larger charts.

You might see price trigger a signal, stall, and then start to make a run towards stops/zero line or you might see follow through and a quick rally.

You are always trading your largest chart be it 1 hour or 56 hours; remember this when you are playing with seconds or minutes & you should be just fine.

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Postby dojirock » Mon Oct 28, 2013 12:35 am

I look forward to it fx....

MO, awesome advice as usual. We tend to forget the simplest basics.

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Postby raw » Mon Oct 28, 2013 3:01 pm

2 trades

Just closed early on current trade.


Lots of wicking this morning, just watch for closes. Over/Under.
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Postby PebbleTrader » Mon Oct 28, 2013 4:04 pm

MetaTrader question:

"Chart shift -this option shifts the latest bar from the right screen border to the chart shift mark - a gray triangle in the upper part of a chart window. The chart shift mark can be moved horizontally with the mouse within 10 to 50 percent of the window size."

If I use the chart shift, than I give up 10% or more of prime screen real estate!

Does anyone know of a way to automatically shift to bar 0 where it is closer to the edge of the screen?

On larger screens, 10% +, is a lot of wasted space...
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Postby PebbleTrader » Mon Oct 28, 2013 4:10 pm

I use the chart shift for some of the multi time frame "multimeters", but those are only necessary on one chart, if I have 3 different time frames, than 2 of those charts don't need to use the chart shift to keep price out of the multimeter space.

I want the chart shift functionality on the other time frames just set at like 0 or 1% instead of the 10% limitation...
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Postby FXfreak » Mon Oct 28, 2013 5:29 pm

First trade:

AJ H4, based on big momo candle on the top, entry near the stacked areas on the left.

Entry isn't based on smaller timeframes, it's just H4. target is d1 bo area.


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Postby dojirock » Mon Oct 28, 2013 6:11 pm

Slow start of the week. See if I can squeeze a few out today
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