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    Newbie Here, a bit unsettled...

    Funny money So, how did you make that much in a few days? Share the strategy please. Thanks.
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    Problem A Surprising Outcome to an FPA Investigation

    So what is her strategy I would be very much interested in finding out what is her strategy, to start out with 100 and end up with 8000 almost sounds too good to be true. Either she was lucky or then she has a skill or strategy which i would love to learn from. Thanks.
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    Problem Beware Instaforex Scam!!

    scams This is one of the reasons why i decided to go with DBFX. True, i have not asked for a withdrawal, but i believe that their name stands for something. Hopefully, i won't be proved wrong. But i has an instance a few years ago when i tried to get my money from another company, and while...
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    Am I wasting my time?

    And that's what i am trying to do now. I have just been trying to come with one. Are there any decent ones that a person can follow? I have been working on developing my own, but as i said, if i do not place wide stop losses or just do not place them and i trade with the trend the i will be...
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    stop loss strategy

    This thread has been very interesting. One of the reasons i had such a high stop loss was because my entries had a 70% to 80% chance of success. I traded with the trend, selected relatively small profit amounts for the day. The selection of the stop loss number was based on some averages i...
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    stop loss strategy

    How much did you pay for this manual? When i first started, i fell for one of these sure things, and i just ended up loosing $90.
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    stop loss strategy

    First, i am trading eur/usd on dbfx. I decided on 160, because i averaged out the high and low for daily trades, for about 300 days, and i noticed that with high volatility the range tended to be less than 300 pips. The thing about the stop loss is that when i first started, i was doing great...
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    stop loss strategy

    I trade with dbfx. When i tried a stop loss of 50 and 30 pips for a 30 minute time frame on two positions, i suddenly saw my stop loss get eaten up like candy. It almost looked like someone was pushing the price up, because as soon as it hit my stop loss it sarted to come down and if i did not...
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    Am I wasting my time?

    I agree with Trenton, Use your head, but i feel your pain. I too have been hit even though most of my trades were good. One of the problems was that as soon as i place a stop loss ,unless it is wide ,in Eur/usd 150 pisp for example, that my stop loss gets hit. Also placing stop losses over...
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    stop loss strategy

    any ideas on stop loss strategies for wild swings? It seems that unless i place a very large stop loss of 160 or more then my stop loss often gets hit before my take profit order even if the market is going my way.
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    Best Broker to hedge FX

    DBFX allows hedging. DBFX allows hedging
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    Question about Hedging

    Hi, I am new to forex. I tried the demo and had pretty good success with it until one day. I also opened an account and again was having pretty good success until one day. A couple of things hit me. One was the fact that i had a stop loss and i had a real good week, but over the weekend...
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