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Take a look at daily charts from a few years back -- silver can drop in whole dollar increments in the space of a few days (I suppose it could go up just as fast). Nice exit -- I don't think you'll regret getting out here.

It's a viable perspective -- there are traders who keep relatively small amounts in an account and use relatively high leverage, akin to a prop setup I suppose. Percentage return wouldn't really apply here, so it's apples and oranges. I use about 10K per currency contract leverage, 5-10%...

Don't forget those of us who've struggled for a couple years, finally make a living from the markets for a few years more, then had to go back to square one when we realized too late that our edge didn't "apply" anymore. If you think learning to trade was difficult the first time around, try...

Some traders are alot like tv evangelists -- they can totally disbelieve in something and yet still make a fortune off it.

That's plausible if skalpz was female :D

He's just fishing for ideas ivan, the sad thing is he doesn't realize he could be given every edge in the market and still blow out his account.

Interesting and refreshing to compare the tone of the posts on this thread as opposed to the jokers in forex who have something to prove. Sorry to interrupt.

When it goes up, it's going higher; when it goes down, we're going to correct more -- not exactly beneficial to the account equity. When exactly are you placing your bets, at the open of the next bar?

Currencies only appreciate/depreciate in comparison with other currencies. Most typically when it's reported in the media that euro is stronger or weaker it is in relation to the dollar; however, the euro could conceivably be stronger vs all other currencies except the dollar, which would...

Okay. Make 64 demo accounts. Right before next NFP are released, go long eur/usd in half of them, go short in other half. Throw out the ones that are losers by the end of the day. For the next 6 months, do the same thing before every NFP release. After 6 months, you will have one...

You can do pretty much anything you want on demo.

Sorry exchanges/coinz/skapz, but it's really starting to get old after the third time around. You need fresh material. Or better yet, maybe a new audience? :)

Ivan, if you can isolate it to a few trades that incidentally just didn't work out, you shouldn't let one month's results trouble you much at all. However, it's endemic of markets that those doing well for a time will be the ones most vulnerable when the markets shift, so in that sense stay on...

Well put -- I agree, the sensible solution is probably "in between". I was just trying to see if I could go beyond a band-aid remedy (because they usually never last) and dig a little more into finding where my issue has its source.

Happens all the time in the e-cbot markets, sometimes as much as 10 bucks away from the pit.

thanks!

Why must the CANCEL ORDER hotkey share the same key that DELETES a row? Big pain in the a** to retype the symbol if you accidentally shift up a row. Can anyone explain why these two cannot be separated?

Yeah I could maintain the same objective by leaving size alone and partialing out half way. But one reason I'm going this route of doubling size is that I'm trying to convince myself to trade larger in the first place when all my ducks line up. Pyramiding isn't my strong suit and has always...

I stopped checking this thread but I came back because I think it's pretty much the same issue I'm talking about in the "size/time risk" thread in the trading section. What I'm attempting to do there is probably not one of your five solutions, just a reactionary impulse that's helping me think...

One further 'pre-emptive' note. Yes, I realize I may be going about things ass-backwards: if I didn't suffer from positional bias, most likely none of this would be an issue at all. But right now I just don't have the solution for it the way that I trade, so this is my way of trying to deal in...