Quote from spanish89:
Oh yes now this is really really really fucked me off today!!!!
So id moved my target from the 42.26 where i had put it overnight to put it at 42.83, so id get 2ticks profit.
i then went back to lie down, as i had had the roughest most horrific scary stressful fuckedup evening, night, monring, mid day!!!:/
had felt so so sick, not been able to eat anything, been so dehyrated, so terrified about what id do if i lost all my money and where i could live..
then i got text alert 20mins later saying oil under 43.
later- under 42.80
later- under 42.26
later- under 41.80
:eek: :eek: :eek:![]()
I looked at the market just now and please can someone tell me how the fuck could anyone on earth possibly have done better than i did with this trade and have held through when they saw this formation form and after it going from 43.47 to over 45 1x already....!!
seriously, i just dont get how the fuck i could have done any better with this and have held through this.....![]()
Quote from usman88:
it is not bad luck
You need to change and adapt your trading style to different market conditions. You need to work on a setup which works well in sideways market

Quote from truehawk:
Set your stops and walk away?
Listen Spanish, you know what you are doing. Calm down and stick to your plan.
Quote from spanish89:
K i wont virus you cos you wrote in a nice way..
I was thinking yesterday about getting a slight different style of traidng for the now market conditions,
(basically a market full of trend-chasing little pricks who will just push the market trend really really slowly in both directions till its over-elongated, but then the rebounds are so sooo slow too, untill near the end of them),
but what sorta other stratergies work well in this market??
Quote from spanish89:
i honestly do want to mate but that stupid etx give you min 40ticks stop!!![]()
when i want to be able to use 2 t 3ticks stoploss when im locking in profit.
since my target is just 40ticks some trades, but i have to clear my entry by 40ticks (£240 or £320), just to then be able to get a break even stoploss, and risk losing all taht cash n having zero profit if its hit.
if etx dont start allowing any size stoploss soon i am gna leave them and start using direct access
Quote from wee man:
Would you care to elaborate? (explain a bit more with some detail)