Quote from usman88:
@spanish89
1. What do you mean by 1 pound/4 pounds per tick and stuff?
2. How long have you been trading and what is the timeframe of your average trade?
3. Who is your broker and what commissions do you pay?
4. Any indicators you use?
ALoha mate..
1. £4 per tick means each tick (in oil its called ticks not points or pips), and so thats the amount im 'betting' per each 1cents movement of oil.
2. Ive been trading for over 1year now, only switched to fulltime in June when i left college and started with all the money i had in the world £759), and had to start earning a living off that instantly basically if i didnt wamt to live on the streets again.
So never got any of the cushy security that normal people do when they start trading, thrown right in at the deep end. lol
Average timeframe of a trade is between a few minutes to a few hours.
3. I trade through EtxCapital.com , would never ever trust a fking broker with my cash! LOL
if its my money than im gna do my traidng manually myself, not gna trust some poncy fool who couldnt make it as a trader himself!
And i pay '12ticks per trade'.
So for example if i am going to go long on oil and the oil price is $50.00, i will have my trade start from 50.06, so will start in 6ticks loss,
and when i close i will lose 6ticks more.
Since when oil is at 50.00, i can either buy at 50.06, or sell at 49.94.
So if i bought when oil was at 50.00, id be long from 50.06, and if i wanted to close it instantly id be selling at 49.94.
So i pay 12ticks per each trade, and in money terms its 12 x £per tick that im trading at.
So yesterday and tuesday when i was trading at £6 per tick i was paying £72 comission per trade!!
4. And i just use my eyes.

(by far the best and ONLY indicator that you need and that works)
I look at where S&R levels are and how market reacts at them, look at trend line, look at triple tops and more importantly look for hangman formations, know the news each hour each day, constantly watch dow an dollar movements, and easiest to cash in from look for big spikes (1hour chart), and they are soeasy to make so so much money from by just traidng teh pullback off them.