Response to Dubai
Hi Mob,
What hrs are you trading this? Are you US based?
I did 1 mini lot trades for 0.5% risk to get a feel for it, had 5 wins and 1 loss. The loss was at 7.45 AM BST when GU just caved in and then I stayed well away as a strong trend formed.
Got caught out by USDJPY earlier also but still fairly happy. I think the best time is around 5am BST-7AM BST.
Awesome Dubai! I have noticed that the best time to trade this strategy is during the London Session throughout the over lap of US hours, so 3am-12pm. Although you can trade this strategy all day long, but what good does it make if the ranges are extremely tight in the evening when you can only squeeze out about 2 pips.
I also have come to grips that the 5M charts are the Best to use, you just don't get as many set ups as the 1M, however, you can get more pips with it which in the end will produce about the same amount of pips as 1M would or more but with less setups. As the creator of this strategy stated, you do have to have patients with this strategy to allow the perfect set up to take place.
Trust me, I am one of the most impatient traders around which is why I love to scalp, however, it has, a lot of times, made me take profits too soon. I'm still working on the patience. I'll get their soon.
Me and another trader from Chicago whom I chat with on Blackberry IM every morning lol have both decided that from here on out that we're going to stick with the 5Ms because they produce the best results by a long shot, just have to wait for the set ups. I'll wait as long as I know that I am going to be making nice dough ya know.
I've noticed that on the 1M prices tend to hit the blue line but continue moving and the reason why is because they are headed towards the blue line on the 5M which may be another 20 pips, so that's why I'll just stick with 5Ms and go for more pips. I use a stop of 20 on 5ms and have only been stopped once and it was because of the DAMN NEWS!!! I didn't realize how the US Housing Index or whatever it was that came out Thursday morning, had such an effect on the market.
So remember do not trade this or any mechanical system during the news. Be very cognizant of Major news breaks, other than that this strategy is producing nice gains man. I'm taking at least 5% a day wanting to take 10%, if I'm at 5% already during the London session then I'm going for 10% on the day. We should at least double our money every month with this strategy.
So in response to your question Dubai, the London Session is where you can reach your daily goals quickly
I'm going to post a 5 M of the set up so that you guys can see how sweet it looks. Oh and remember we can look to take profits at the middle white line which is the 50MA. On a 5M that's typically around 20 pips
I'm gonna start using this strategy on more currency pairs because they all fall in line with this strategy, I've noticed that I missed out on a lot of money not paying attention to the others because there may be a set up on the USD/CHF while there's nothing on EUR/USD. We tend to stick with EUR/USD because of the low spread but since we're mostly using 5ms we can go ahead and jump on other currency pairs.
Let's get to the Mulah!!!!! The markets owe us!!!!
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