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exactly what I need too...
maybe include another chart, next to Balance, that would shows how equity tracks when positions have not been closed yet.
Daily or even hourly intervals...
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Very observant [smiley]. Actually I have only had 2 days this month that I had problems like that. Oct 19 & 20th. My risk increased. On Oct 20th, I had the most exposure and stuck to my gut that my short EUR/USD positions would correct. I was right and took a small profit but I had to watch the prices all night. I normally have no problem taking losses but I just decided to stick to my feelings about the rhythm of price movements. When you say my system is worrying you, best believe it was worrying me more, so you will notice I also did not trade for the rest of the week. Prices were just ......
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you can get streaming fx quotes for your site from forexpros.com ... nice way to get a quick look before logging in to O
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I normally focus my energy on other projects after the London session due to the drop off in volume so I shut everything down, but now I see that you are probably right about the long term trend reversal. Also thanks for the informative article.
About my personal trading account I can say that I do fairly well overall. I've made a lot on a continuous monthly basis only to gamble and over-leverage due to greed, arrogance, or whatever and lose a lot. So I've learned. Now I am trying to balance trading both accounts from different brokers so the personal account has become secondary. I also ope......
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The Reasons Why Monday's Are Usually Positive. Informative. The reason why I normally don't trade Mondays. Volume is too light and prices due strange things. I also find Fridays are 50/50 too.
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To reduce risk. This is a conservatively managed account that only uses 3.30% order size (Oanda user preferences) per trade. The drawdown you see was in the first month of trading when the account balance started at only $900. Since then, more money has been deposited and the profits have grown which in turn raises the unit size traded. Now you will rarely see a drawdown larger than 2%...
...although today I almost got hit hard, I was long EUR/USD toward the end of the London session and got caught in what I believed to be a long "squeeze" which saw the price drop, stabilize, then r......
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I'm actually surprised you can still see whats going on. Oanda has too many problems again. Huge difference in price streams between FXCM UK and Oanda kept me irritated. I'm out, Done for the week (glad I didn't trade the news today!)...
Happy Trading!
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[smiley][lol][grin] out for almost 30 min. scared the hell out of me. shut down right when I was trying to closeout my EURUSD positions when the spread flipped back to 0.9...[yell] ... thought they were trying to get me too. (that's why I normally don't trade events)
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