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I'm not claiming anything. That thoughtpruf couldn't understand my posts is understadable, but as admin, I would have thought at least you would have actually read what I've written and helped put him straight.

Try really hard and see if you can come up with a number that might be sensible as a stop with the only contraint being 'just below 3601'.

Yeah, you're right. I'll leave you all to carry on as you were.

I magically avoided being stopped out by [a] not being in any trade in the first place and [b] suggested if you were hungry for action and were intending to go in to place a stop at a point which has yet to be hit. I told you what the median level was 3601. The stop 'just below'. Carry on...

I've reported this post to the moderators. I'm flattered to have attracted my very own non-trader stalker-troll just one day after joining the site, but there is a limit to how much of this nonsense I will tolerate.

What part of "I'm not trading the dead spot" did you not get? edit: Even if I had taken a trade at that point where I specifically said I wasn't, and had placed a stop below the median level which is what I suggested, it wouldn't have been stopped out in any event.

I've had one trade today. A long eur/sd taken at 3608 with a stop at 3598. I closed the trade at 3617 ten minutes prior to US data release at 13:30 BST.

To anyone thinking I should have stayed in the long trade through the news, they probably would not have been saying that if it had taken off in the other direction. Especially with such a relatively tight stop, I'd have been taken out for a loss rather than an almost 1:1 reward/risk. The...

I haven't deleted any posts.

eur/usd closed at 17. 10 mins to big US data.

Are you looking for guarantees? I'll let what I have to say speak for itself. If it's useful to you, great. You'll be the only and best judge of that. The length of time I have been trading and consistently profitable is irrelevant.

QED. The reference to Houston gives it all away. You wind in the numbers like it can be programmed or as if it's written in the stars and once set in motion can never be changed. An 85% chance of hitting your 15 pip target does not equate to a 15% chance of losing your entire 100 pip risk...

...which is why I also have a limit sell at 3590 with a buy stop at 65. This will cancel once we break through 3619 or after 16:00 BST - whichever comes first.

On the subject of trading what you see: I'll be just as happy to see this trade go to target as I will to dump it and reverse to the downside targets. I have no attachment to my current positions unless they are a reflection of the current reality.

Other than the upper boundary of the sector at 3619 (sector boundaries are always strong potenital s/r), there is an area of potential resistance at 3627: Yesterday's high, today's daily R1 and a technical London-Frankfurt level holding over from yesterday. So if it breaks 3619 we should be...

bought eur/usd 3608 stop 3598.

As per the first posts in this thread I'll only be taking a trade if both the contituent currencies are showing significant divergent (from each other) movement. If I end up in a a eur/usd trade, it'll be because usd is strengthening/weakening more than most of the others and/or eur is...

I'll introduce them as I use them as a worked real-world example goes a lot further to underlining their usefulness than a lifeless list.

Re: the above. Don't fall victim to the delusion your broker is out to get you. He's not. He wants everyones money equally. He wont be targetting your specific stops, honest. Even if you're A book (especially if you're A book!). Just be aware of the game and the rules and play them wherever...

I'm not a big fan of data releases. They offer the trader a bad deal. While random chance suggests news releases should favour your trade 50% of the time, the house edge, the zero/double zero on the roulette wheel, is the brokers spreads. They will widen around major news times and basically pay...