I only trade futures, mainly the Mini Dow (YM) and sometimes the grains (Corn, Soybeans) and also currency futures. I trade futures technically using various set-ups from www.tradethemarkets.com and some of own home grown set-ups.
On the forex side, I use only currency futures, trading news event spikes. This has an excellent win percentage (over 90%) and is a great fun way to trade, however it can be a bit nerve-racking at times esp. if you get bad slippage or the market moves unexpectedly.
This journal was mainly created for my own use so that I can refer back to trades I have made – and also to see how a particular report has behaved in the past. So if I’m trading say UK Retail Sales, I can click on that category and the blog will show me all previous retail sales trades.
If you get something out of it, then great!
Hello
this is maxey the owner of Economic Report V 0.4.zip
http://www.forexfactory.com/showthread.php?t=10869
your style of trading same like me, what do u think about met via msn and exchange information
if u interseting add me via maxey_gamer@hotmail.com
http://maxeyforextrader.blogspot.com/
Hello
do you uses news service like autoclick ?
Yes I use autoclick.
I was wondering about your comments regarding spot forex providers. I have heard rumours of shenanigans before. I take it this relates to price slippage. Are there any providers you trust? Any you particularly don’t trust?
Gareth,
Some people get on fine with spot forex providers. I personally, with my own experience, do not. They are not, in my view, suitable for spike news trading, but can be fine for normal technical analysis trading during normal market conditions. You’re always going to get problems with liquidity at news time, but the spot providers that take the other side of your trade get hammered on these trades so they widen spreads AND increase slippage to shake news traders out.
That is why I have moved over to futures where the slippage and spread (kind of the same thing with futures) can get very wide, hence I only trade with very conservative triggers and only the big mover reports. At least with futures I know that the person on the other side is not trying to trip me up with stop hunting software or slippage/spread widening software – the other side of the trade is simply another trader.
Hope this helps.
Hi,
Where do you get autoclick news service? Could you send me the link. Thanks.
Hello, I saw your Globex Pivots on Trader’s Laboratory. Did you ever get that indicator working properly. It looks to be exactly what I need. Would you mind responding to me at mikecrim2@bellsouth.net? Many thanks for your help, Mike
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