Quote from WD40:
You talked about the AUDUSD, where was your entry? give me your numbers.
As far as I can see, your overall positions are still under the water!
What are all those scalping about? and all of a sudden you switched to swing trade with buy-and-hold strategy? Maybe you were managing too many accounts and forgotten about this one for a moment? [/B]
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the logs you have contain the trades, including the two ill fated ones -- the one that "something or someone" closed and the one the OP closed !
on there is my entry and to be honest, it became a swing trade because it had gone against me and, seeing what the general trend for the symbol was, i simply allowed it to hang, knowing full well that it would become profitable shortly (which it either has already or will in a day) There is no ONE way to trade, be it pennies, the Q's (with or without options) or IBM (which makes some very profitable moves, btw) and I do all of them in combo or seperately as I see fit (or have the time for !)
the trade that was closed, causing an extremely large loss, happened "somehow" and could not be explained by FXDD except that two computers were logged into the trading panel at the same time and one of those computers was in a public place, open AND HAD BEEN TINKERED WITH ON PREVIOUS occasions, CLOSING A YAHOO CONNECTION BETWEEN THE TWO OF US ON A NUMBER OF occasions !
NOW you and the rest of the board can continue to INSIST THAT ONE KEYSTROKE, by a patient in Japan, COULD NOT RUIN A PERFECTLY GOOD DAY, but the evidence is to the contrary !!
btw, its no longer really called "scalping" as that was a trading style of fitting between the bid and ask and stealing an eighth or a sixteenth from the specialist thru the use of SOES --- i believe what we now do is known as "flipping", which are short term trades I enjoy doing constantly and did on that symbol (as well as many others) during the day !
while the first loss was mine, due to not seeing where the margin was at the moment, it was recoverable HAD THE SECOND loss not been closed "somehow" and the third not closed by the OP !
Presently I am rebuilding losses suffered by a newb on her first journey into Forex, and in two or three days have recovered 25% and intend to be back to normal by mid next week -- she has been told, IN NO WAY is she to go near the trading panel while im trading as the MT4 software allows that to happen ! (which no other software i know of allows !!)
the OP has presented his facts, originally wanting to know if he had been scrammed which, since there was no way i could make anything unless the positions went up, was impossible -- I understand his hurt and his loss, but also understand that hands should have been kept off an open trading panel, his or anothers ! (i doubt it was his, except to close the final position)
that is what I saw, what happened and what I shall maintain forever !
mp