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Somehow, what helped me is attachment to money, but in the sense of healthy greed. Because my main problem with trading was fear (besides absence of skills at first too, of course :D ) and seeing trading working for you and feeling you want to trade bigger and make more because you are confident...

It depends. Some people perceive price action better with the use of certain filters aka indicators. They simply watch indicators with more focus than the price itself and know their indicators behavior like their own palm. It's funny at times, when I enter the trade based on price action and...

Well, my style is not purely mechanical, so from my point of view and experience, the more you practice your method, the better it "works" (in reality you just trade better). I agree, that some mechanical systems, especially those based on correlations and stuff like that tend to stop having...

I am far from thinking that all systems fail. Trading method is a skill-set of a trader, the longer you practice it, the better it works for you. And successful trading is far not just the stress management. How should one be called, who does not feel any stress while obviously trading badly...

Technical trading skills and emotions associated with trading activity are two different problems. Skills are to be developed first, then, as I said, one should start slowly trading real money, using the smallest size available for a given instrument, to learn to deal with emotions and other...

Our mind remains the same, no matter if we learn to drive a car or to trade... At first you stress, sometimes very seriously stress. But over time as you practice, if you do it right (in general, minor mistakes are unavoidable and OK), stress fades away and you just get used to that activity...

Stress is an indicator. Too much stress shows you that something is wrong with your trading, that you are not confident enough in your system. So the better you trade, the more consistent your results are, the lower is your stress.

There's no way to trade ETF's through a forex broker, but if you deliberately plan to trade ETF's on high leverage, check out IB's portfolio margin, maybe it gives you some option. Also spread betting firms come to mind. But written above is just my thoughts, not something I tried in...

Once again, as long as I am profitable, why should I care about someone doing something somewhere? :)

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Now seriously, what % of volume of deep markets (such as Euro, ES or Bund) is retail? A few percents, maybe. All the rest is institutions. And I seriously doubt that banks care where retail traders put in their stops etc. At least I don't find myself being ripped off in any way. :)

LOL, didn't expect to read something in Russian in this thread. Especially what you wrote. :D

Honestly, all I care about is my profit to be real and care less what someone somewhere does. :D

Where are you going to find forex pair, which would be considered "conservative investment" in a shizo enrivonment of our days? :D If I max out 50:1 leverage it means 7% risk with a hard stop-loss of 20 pips (usually use less) for EUR/USD. It is already way too much and using more is, IMO...

You can't trade ETFs with forex brokers anyway.

Not being U. S. citizen I could trade with higher margin with some European or offshore broker, but honestly 50:1 equals to ~1-2% risk per trade, which is just right for me.

I often do share my setups, but for most who are unable to trade profitably it won't change anything, because success in trading is far not just the entry. :) P. S. Setups are so "classic" and simple anybody already knows them most likely. :D

Manually backtest patterns to collect statistical information about them, but overall forward testing is much more useful, because it gives true experience on how exactly the given pattern shows itself and works.

More like 4-5, but I only actively trade for ~3 hours a day.

Agree. All moves are real as long as price really changes. "Real or not" issue sounds more as an excuse for poor trading. :)