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Intraday Trading is gambling

Jun 14, 2016 at 07:44
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vontogr (togr)
Member Since Feb 22, 2011   4862 posts
Aug 14, 2017 at 11:47
HolyGrail2222 posted:
togr posted:
Damien1881 posted:
For me, intraday trading did not work.
Stops always got run over so now I start with monthly and work down but don't go below 4hr.
Most of us and predict the movement for a couple of pips most of the time, do it on the monthly and you get a couple of hundred!
I check my charts once a day looking for entries or to close profits and that's it.
My positions are very small in comparison to most so I don't have to use stops and now I always win.
Stress free and positive results.

*If I wanted to trade intraday now it would only be with an ea that uses multiple time frame analysis.*

@Damien1881
How does it come such 'successful trader' like you posses only one real account which was not updated since 2015?

VONTOGR, your accounts and systems are all over the place, many of your accounts have been deleted or are in negative, WHy don't you just trust Damien. You do not need to be rude. People do not have to publish their accounts if they do not want to. I'd say VOntogr is just looking for investors to trust him, probably a scam too.
Because he Is promoting historie services bit He diesel not posses single real profitable account. Why would waste zimě to reader such Guy comments
vontogr (togr)
Member Since Feb 22, 2011   4862 posts
Aug 14, 2017 at 11:47
Ehm. Because he is promoting historie own services, without sharing single profitable account
Malky2308 (HolyGrail2222)
Member Since Nov 09, 2015   20 posts
Aug 15, 2017 at 06:28
togr posted:
Ehm. Because he is promoting historie own services, without sharing single profitable account

Then you are right. It does not really matter now. You have experience here @togr most people trust you. People should not use this forum to promote their own stuff. Thanks for clarifying
katiane.tomas@
Member Since Jun 29, 2017   11 posts
Aug 16, 2017 at 06:29
Intraday is my preferred way to trade but I combine it with a bias in the longer term direction
Member Since Jun 13, 2014   101 posts
Aug 18, 2017 at 20:33
Intraday trading is certainly not gambling. I made 400% in just two days.

https://www.myfxbook.com/members/savantfx/savantfx-skype/2223531
Never Give Up!
The Fox (TheSlyFox)
Member Since Nov 19, 2017   31 posts
Nov 20, 2017 at 07:40
If you are going to intraday trade, you should really only spend 3-4 hours a day trading, im not sure why people would stare at charts all day as that would just hurt your eyes, risk .5-2% of your account per trade, 1:2 rr ratio, and trade the first hour of asian, new york, and london session as that is when market is most volatile, if you don't see moves and potential trades in the first hour of those sessions, market will be slow and it would be a waste of time looking for trades that might never show up, or higher risk trades then necessary, as it would be better to trade another day. you don't HAVE to trade every day, 20 good trading days a month, if you make 1 trade a week, risking 1% of account, all 4 trades win, you make 8% of your account in a month with 4 trades. Quality over volume is always better, just find the high probability trades that match your system and go for it.
Slow and Grow or Fast and Blow
CrazyTraderfx (CrazyTrader)
Member Since Nov 21, 2011   1718 posts
Nov 20, 2017 at 14:51
savantfx posted:
Intraday trading is certainly not gambling. I made 400% in just two days.

https://www.myfxbook.com/members/savantfx/savantfx-skype/2223531

Gambling is harder than trading : )
The Fox (TheSlyFox)
Member Since Nov 19, 2017   31 posts
Nov 21, 2017 at 07:42
Crazy.... you are going to blow your account if you continue at that pace lol
Slow and Grow or Fast and Blow
vontogr (togr)
Member Since Feb 22, 2011   4862 posts
Nov 21, 2017 at 15:43
TheSlyFox posted:
Crazy.... you are going to blow your account if you continue at that pace lol

He is used to blow accounts

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Paulino (jimenooo)
Member Since Dec 03, 2015   4 posts
Nov 21, 2017 at 15:52
CrazyTrader posted:
Gambling is harder than trading : )

oh, really, how come? 😀
Member Since Nov 24, 2015   64 posts
Nov 22, 2017 at 07:33
savantfx posted:
Intraday trading is certainly not gambling. I made 400% in just two days

ad now nothing left,private mode,hiding some bad news maybe
robertonathalie@
Member Since Dec 06, 2017   5 posts
Dec 08, 2017 at 11:24
i agree the news all ways dictates how the market moves. I think it's better to trade after major news or open trades before major news & get out of the trade. You can trade after a major news release & be sure where the market is going !
Member Since Dec 11, 2015   1487 posts
Dec 09, 2017 at 15:43
GretarR posted:
i agree the news all ways dictates how the market moves. I think it's better to trade after major news or open trades before major news & get out of the trade. You can trade after a major news release & be sure where the market is going !
I concur. Avoid trading the actual news release, unless you know exactly what you are doing.
Member Since Dec 10, 2017   210 posts
Dec 11, 2017 at 08:32
Intraday trading is not gambling, it's a strategy.
Baldo (BaldoN)
Member Since Feb 12, 2016   522 posts
Dec 13, 2017 at 14:42
For some traders are gambling, for other a source of income.
Bottom line: Everyone have its own true :)
Member Since Dec 13, 2017   10 posts
Dec 14, 2017 at 08:12
Unless your strategy sucks and then it is 50:50 gambling
Adel Grepling (Adelgrepling)
Member Since Nov 04, 2017   13 posts
Dec 14, 2017 at 08:30
Serenity271 posted:
togr posted:
prakash104 posted:
Major drawback in intraday trading is watching 5 or 15 minute or 30 minute charts all day.
This will make you sick and your eyes will be under severe pain.You will need a doctor because now you are addicted to intraday trading.

Well you need to see from another point of view.
Trading is about forecast future. You need to estimate if pair move up or down.
It is like weather forecast. They could do it for today or perhaps tomorrow. For a week or month? It does not work:)
So IMHO trying to forecast future for very close time has better success than for long term.

It's the other way around. Look at forecasts from major banks. The don't have a forecast for the next 15 minutes or the next day. For them it's about what will happen in the next few months or years.



I agree with this, in this way we can observe with a vision more aplia than what has happened, for the power to predict sometime what will happen.
vontogr (togr)
Member Since Feb 22, 2011   4862 posts
Dec 14, 2017 at 08:54
Adelgrepling posted:
Serenity271 posted:
togr posted:
prakash104 posted:
Major drawback in intraday trading is watching 5 or 15 minute or 30 minute charts all day.
This will make you sick and your eyes will be under severe pain.You will need a doctor because now you are addicted to intraday trading.

Well you need to see from another point of view.
Trading is about forecast future. You need to estimate if pair move up or down.
It is like weather forecast. They could do it for today or perhaps tomorrow. For a week or month? It does not work:)
So IMHO trying to forecast future for very close time has better success than for long term.

It's the other way around. Look at forecasts from major banks. The don't have a forecast for the next 15 minutes or the next day. For them it's about what will happen in the next few months or years.



I agree with this, in this way we can observe with a vision more aplia than what has happened, for the power to predict sometime what will happen.

All of these large banks predict for example EURUSD will go to parity until end of the year.
Forecasting future of currency is like forecasting the weather - the longer time period in advance the more foggy results.
It is much easier to predict where will the currency be in next hour then next month.
Especially with big events like
09:30 EUR German Manufacturing PMI (Dec) 63.3 62.2 62.5
13:45 EUR Deposit Facility Rate -0.40% -0.40%
13:45 EUR ECB Interest Rate Decision (Dec) 0.00% 0.00%
14:30 USD Core Retail Sales (MoM) (Nov) 0.7% 0.1%
14:30 USD Retail Sales (MoM) (Nov) 0.3% 0.2%
14:30 EUR ECB Press Conference
Member Since May 22, 2017   2 posts
Dec 14, 2017 at 15:58
Adelgrepling posted:
Serenity271 posted:
togr posted:
prakash104 posted:
Major drawback in intraday trading is watching 5 or 15 minute or 30 minute charts all day.
This will make you sick and your eyes will be under severe pain.You will need a doctor because now you are addicted to intraday trading.

Well you need to see from another point of view.
Trading is about forecast future. You need to estimate if pair move up or down.
It is like weather forecast. They could do it for today or perhaps tomorrow. For a week or month? It does not work:)
So IMHO trying to forecast future for very close time has better success than for long term.

It's the other way around. Look at forecasts from major banks. The don't have a forecast for the next 15 minutes or the next day. For them it's about what will happen in the next few months or years.

I agree with this, in this way we can observe with a vision more aplia than what has happened, for the power to predict sometime what will happen.

I don't agree with this, analyst forecast. Traders trade the facts which is what we see on charts, instantaneous price movements.
Member Since May 22, 2017   2 posts
Dec 15, 2017 at 11:38
fundamental feed into expectations and sentiment. expectations and sentiment change every day driven by data.

if you don't day trade you will see your profit melt away like ice-cream.
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