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  1. phishtrick
    05-27-2013 11:19 AM - permalink
    phishtrick
    Thank You for the welcome. New to trading and trying to learn as much as possible.
    I will be exploring the site. I do appreciate all of you taking the time and energy to do this.
    Cheers
    PT
  2. ehalid
    05-08-2013 08:53 PM - permalink
    ehalid
    Well, I may have deleted my post:
    Thanks, it seems like the right choice and a good choice to be here.
  3. ehalid
    05-08-2013 08:51 PM - permalink
    ehalid
    Thank you, it feels like the right choice and a good choice. Glad to be here.
  4. mroper03
    05-05-2013 10:56 PM - permalink
    mroper03
    Thank you for the welcome. I am relatively new to trading and always looking for opportunities to learn. Look forward to interacting with other traders
  5. DurranUSMC
    05-01-2013 01:20 PM - permalink
    DurranUSMC
    Hello Simit

    I am a Marine. Currently in Afghanistan right now. Came across your site and looked like a great community, I am new to trading so I hope to learn a lot here. Thanks a lot. Great site

    Durran
  6. rtpcm
    04-20-2013 12:56 PM - permalink
    rtpcm
    Thank you. I hope this will be fruitful and prosperous journey.
  7. oragonini
    04-18-2013 04:57 AM - permalink
    oragonini
    Hello Mr. Patel.

    Thanks for the welcome. I had been watching the Tim Sykes videos the past few days and by Googling more about it, that's how I found IT. I'd been working here in the Middle East (Afghanistan, UAE and Kuwait) since 2006 and being away from family is getting harder than easier. You could say I am desperate to move back to the US again and enjoy being with my family for once but with the current US economy situation, there is no way I could make a decent amount of income if I do that.

    By watching Tim Sykes, it's giving me hope and I'm getting more interested in learning more about being able to trade and actually come out on the positive side this time around. It seems so easy the way Tim talks about it but of course, I need to be skeptical so I wouldn't lose what I worked for the past seven years.

    If I could make a couple of thousands a month just by trading stocks which I like to do anyway, then I could really come home and do it from there. If you could point me to the right direction, then I am seriously considering earning enough from trading to sustain my family's needs.

    Regards,

    Carlo
  8. Lagoonboy
    04-16-2013 06:29 PM - permalink
    Lagoonboy
    Thanks for the welcome, Mr Patel.

    Sorry to moan on our first meeting but the Advanced Editor seems to like to sprinkle ampersands (&) everywhere, although I have had success with asking for bold and getting it cleanly displayed.

    See my latest post as an example:

    771759-there-something-wrong-gs-post835588

    (URLs not permitted - so there's a fragment)

    It makes it difficult to read the words which I intended to display encased in quotes (") for instance.

    Maybe you already know about this.

    I've cut back on asking for things like italics and bold, but I do have to use quotes (") around a book title for instance, and I think using ampersand (&) in the place of the word "and" still retains the formatting codes, and so displays "&amp" for itself ! :-)

    There seems to be a ton of interesting stuff to look at, so many thanks for co-founding.

    Kind regards,
    Lagoonboy
  9. Lagoonboy
    04-16-2013 06:27 PM - permalink
    Lagoonboy
    Thanks for the welcome, Mr Patel.

    Sorry to moan on our first meeting but the Advanced Editor seems to like to sprinkle ampersands (&) everywhere, although I have had success with asking for bold and getting it cleanly displayed.

    See my latest post as an example.

    www_informedtrades_com_771759-there-something-wrong-gs-post835588_html_post835588

    It makes it difficult to read the words which I intended to display encased in quotes (") for instance.

    Maybe you already know about this.

    I've cut back on asking for things like italics and bold, but I do have to use quotes (") around a book title for instance, and I think using ampersand (&) in the place of the word "and" still retains the formatting codes, and so displays "&amp" for itself ! :-)

    There seems to be a ton of interesting stuff to look at, so many thanks for co-founding.

    Kind regards,
    Lagoonboy
  10. Andrew Hewerdine
    04-13-2013 06:18 AM - permalink
    Andrew Hewerdine
    Hi Simit,

    I would like to submit some content on price action forex trading the daily charts for use in your 'Free Trading Courses' section.

    I have over 5 years experience live trading forex, uk stocks, indices and commodities.

    Which file formats do you prefer? PDF? html?

    Thanks

    Andrew Hewerdine
    learntotradeonline.co.uk

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Posted 06-13-2013 at 07:22 AM by Simit Patel Comments 0
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Some of the losing trades I've had recently have been from shorting GBP -- which in hindsight I see were clearly mistakes I should have avoided. Now, though, I think we are starting to see some signs of GBP reversing and heading back south.

Below is GBPCAD, which shows resistance being respected.


We've seen a series of strong bearish candles on GBPAUD as well.

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Posted 06-11-2013 at 07:00 AM by Simit Patel Comments 0
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We have some confluence there -- see the chart below. I'm interested to see how price action shapes up at that level; I may be interested in putting on some short trades if there are some strong signs of reversal candlesticks at that confluence level. One counter-argument, though, is the upward trendline still intact, and that price is still above the 50 simple moving average (Steven Primo's buy/sell indicator). If we see a reversal at 1.0290, though, I think that may strengthen the case for 1.0405...

Posted 06-05-2013 at 07:13 AM by Simit Patel Comments 0
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A pattern of lower lows and lower highs seems to be emerging. Accordingly, I entered short at 1.0336, with my stop 100 pips higher at 1.0436, and my target profit 300 pips away at 1.0036.


Posted 06-03-2013 at 06:48 AM by Simit Patel Comments 1
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May was not a good month for me, unfortunately. I ended it down 2.58%, bringing my year to date performance to +3.59%.


I placed 27 trades in the month. 19 were losers, 5 breakevens, and 3 wins.




In spite...

Posted 05-29-2013 at 11:44 PM by Simit Patel Comments 2
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I believe the yen pairs have fallen to a support level, and so I've gone long CADJPY and AUDJPY under the hypothesis that support will hold and the market will rally to resistance levels from here.

Below is a chart of CADJPY featuring my entry point, stop loss level, and target profit.


And here is the trade I placed on AUDJPY:

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