Sharing Thoughts on Forex

Quote from hermit_trader:

I tried paper trade Forex last year. My own feeling is this market is particular noisy and hard to trade. The short-term charts(1-5 minutes) are always very choppy. If you trade by using long-term charts(15min or 60 min), you need to put a wide stop and this could be very risky. There are many spikes in the charts that could easily hit your stop and then go for the original direction.

Completely agreed, I'd much rather position or spread trade off of a free, delayed 60min chart (say from futuresource.com) than to try to scalp for 5 ticks using a 1min real-time chart.
 
you can also get price improvement with limit orders on oanda.com so its not all one way traffic. i had this a few times when i was playing around with their fxgame system.
 
When I got married for the first time, I married a Jewish Princess. Being a waspy goy, I agreed to convert to Judiasm.

Man, all I can say is that when they removed my forex during that adult bris ceremony, it hurt like hell for a month.
 
Quote from OPTIONAL777:

When I got married for the first time, I married a Jewish Princess. Being a waspy goy, I agreed to convert to Judiasm.

Man, all I can say is that when they removed my forex during that adult bris ceremony, it hurt like hell for a month.

your honeymoon must have sucked
 
Quote from OPTIONAL777:

When I got married for the first time, I married a Jewish Princess. Being a waspy goy, I agreed to convert to Judiasm.

Man, all I can say is that when they removed my forex during that adult bris ceremony, it hurt like hell for a month.

OK, I often ask you to apply your graphic talents to illustrate your points. Here I will foresk...uh forego the request.

BTW....didn't know there was really such a thing as an adult bris. Hurts thinking about it. They say if doesn't hurt newborns. I have heard the screams.

You mentioned it was your "first time". Does that mean it didn't take? Did you get "short-changed":)

I see you didn't learn to spell "Judaism":D

Peace, and Happy Holidays,
:)rs7
 
Quote from Andy62279:



your honeymoon must have sucked

What honeymoon? She was a Jewish Princess.

When she had an orgasm, which was always self induced electronically, she would yell "Judi, Judi, Judi" (her name was Judi) so I called her self pleasuring process "Judiasm."

The pain of circumcision was mild compared to marriage. Daily castration attempts for 7 years....now that really sucks.
 
Quote from OPTIONAL777:



The pain of circumcision was mild compared to marriage. Daily castration attempts for 7 years....now that really sucks.

So I got a graphic depiction anyway.
:D :D :D

Ouch!!
 
Hate to spoil a good dialogue, but about this FX market...

I think smaller traders should trade the futures. Big hitters can deal directly with a bank. Globex trades all night, if you are inclined to stay up and watch it. You have the security of the exchange clearinghouse. Who knows what is going on with these offshore FX sites? What happens if they go belly up or default or you have a gripe on a trade?

The currency market is probably the most intellectually interesting market around. There is a lot of good commentary available. One of the best is Currency Bulletin, published out of Monaco I believe by an Englishman who runs a currency fund and used to write for the FT. He has a website but I don't have the url.

The best indication of volume is the OI for the futures. A lot of the interbank volume is tied up in hedging or commercial flows, so the futures activity is viewed as the speculative or marginal volume. Much money has been made using systematic trend following approaches, but of course these tend to have big drawdowns and low win/loss percentages. Definitely not for everyone. I have found in the past that simple channel break or Donchian systems are profitable.

The real key to making money in these markets is waiting until the fundamentals line up. There are periods when the odds are definitely in your favor if you understand the underlying fundamentals. Then you put on your trade and hang on to it. If you want to daytrade, I would say there are other markets that are better, at least right now.
 
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