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I'd pray that such a volatility as was summer and late Oct, Nov 2007 to be forever!

There is a HUGE difference between banks and "world's best investors" who have to make that 20% on billions of dollars and a retail trader with several $K account... First are almost completely unable to trade like any retail day- or even swingtrader mostly does, which is - setting a hard...

I don't trade FX intraday for six months yet, but use exactly the same method as do in SIFs and performed hundreds of trades already in FX alone, so pretty sure it does work. Mostly reversals and trend retracements. Statistical most of the time... Based on natural levels sometimes...

If you read my posts in this thread with care, you'd see that I began to speak of an AVERAGE of 200 pips a month (equal to 10 pips a day) as a REACHABLE profit, never as a profit to aim to make. Though I don't see anything wrong in setting a goal and trying to make it. Agree with you just in...

I am surprised how these people have no shame to post in trading forum at all when they don't even understand the basic idea of average daily profit... :p It seems that you are right and for Acs 10 pips a day means beginning a day, entering a trade and closing it at 10 pips profit.... EVERY...

Where and when did I say it's EASY? I said drop all your books crap and go watch PRICE ACTION for 10 hours per day EVERY BUSINESS DAY during a period of about THREE YEARS! Then and only then things indeed become much easier, because just like in any other profession you gain enough...

No, it's you seem to misunderstand the point: do you understand an idea of AVERAGE PROFIT at all? AVERAGE of 10 pips per day DOES NOT mean someone is aiming for 10 pips on a single trade... It can easily be 50 or even 100 pip target trades which if applied consistently result in an average of...

Where did I say that one trade is going to wipe out 10 good trades? It's you said this, not me. :D What I did say in one of my earlier posts in this thread is having a money management which employs preferably at least 1:3 risk/reward! And most good traders I know do just opposite to...

LOL! Isn't this situation same with all futures for example? You rarely have a chance to buy on bid sell on ask in say ES yet I know people who are very successfull trading it with average of just 1 handle stop (which is 4 ticks, you probably don't know it). According to your words it is not...

Why would anybody in one's right mind trade with 3-5 pips spread when 1 pip spread has become reality long time ago???

Exactly! :D

It seems that we all have to go through this. :) But final is different for different people: some don't want to invest their time into just studying price action and end up to blame the market, brokers, "wrong indicators" etc. for not making them a bundle (or even worse, making them...

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Yeah that was my reason of asking. Downtime is not a problem for me but only if stops are honored and executed properly.

Anyone had their stop orders triggered during downtime?

Someone relying on $20 books to trade FX argues with people actually trading it... :D Will give you a titbit forex-forex: drop all this crap: books, indicators etc... Leave just bar price chart of your timeframe of choice and watch it real time until you see repeating things. Watch it for...

I never traded russian markets, even though I live here, but I've heard from people who do that stocks leverage here is let's say "negotiable". :p And as for RTS SIF it's performance bond is good enough by default. Margin required is like $400 while contract is worth $3K+.

Agree. No need to feed the troll. I live in Russia but never knew about RTS specifics so would discuss it with a big interest.

ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The further the better! Now I have become a scientology adept!!!!! ROFL!!!!!

It is just your opinion and/or experience. It doesn't prove anything except that you think so. Once again: 200pips/month AVERAGE does NOT mean month in month out - one month it can be 0 or -100, another month it can be 500-600. And I have several SWING trading methods (utilizing 4h charts)...