Recent content by BadgerMatt

Fair point Robbo. I am only looking at the daily charts, and tend to like to look back a year or more to find the most common S/R areas, but I guess under 3 months would still give me some info. I might demo that too. Good to meet you on Saturday. Hope the head is better now. Nowadays it's not...

That's very good of you BBMac. Thank you once more.

Dash. Thank you very much for the reply - much appreciated. It's good to know I'm not going mad and that I don't need to try to do TA off less than 3 months worth of data. I do have a spreadbetting account but they only give me the data for the current contract. But your answer also...

Many thanks from me too to Stewart for a really thorough and thought provoking presentation. Many thanks also to the Dentist for organising it. It was invaluable to get such a detailed insight into how a succesful trader operates and was very generous of you both to give up your time to organise...

This is probably a very basic question, but I'm struggling to find the answer. I am currently attempting to put together a trading strategy - my entry and exits are to be based on technical analysis only, mainly based on support and resistance. So far I have been testing it on indices and...

I am still on demo myself, so everything I say should be taken which a big bucketful of salt. The first thing to say is that if you are winning more trades than you are losing, you may well have the embryo of a succesful trading system. So well done. The first thing I noticed when looking at...

Many thanks all. Some very useful advice. I am thinking that I am going to have to get to know my system much better than I had appreciated. I have previously thought about it terms of having a clear set of rules which answers all of the "what if..." questions. But I am starting to realise that...

I got interested in trading about 6 years ago. I went on a few courses and quite quickly started spreadbetting, generally using a system which I paid someone to teach me. I found out quite a lot, but barely did any of my own research. I actually made some money for about 6 months and I didn’t...

I've not got any answers to your questions as I am much of a rookie myself, but I've been wondering exactly the same thing - I'll be interested to find out what others think

I see the increased upside, but surely you then do serious damage to your r/r ratio - what would have been a break-even trade becomes a losing one.

In a word, yes. My wife and I managed to take 3 and a half months off 2 years ago. Got the train to Moscow, then the Trans-siberian railway to Beijing and spent the rest of the time travelling down through China and SE Asia. I saw and experienced things which put a completely new perspective on...

Hi Zeeta, I haven't been on here for a while. Yes I did get an answer. If I am betting on futures, then I need to looking at futures charts, not the chart of the underlying instrument. I've taken to just betting on the daily rolling bets, which tend to track the actual price, not the future.

Hi guys. I am the latest newbie fresh off Sandy Jadeja's course (I went in early April). I met him through Finspreads and he struck me as genuine so I decided to take the plunge. I then discovered this board by doing a google search of his name! Don't worry, I don't plan to start gushing about...

Blades, Thanks very much for your feedback. I guess that for indices, I should be doing my analysis based on futures data. Does anyone know any where I can get hold of good reliable futures charts which I can use to draw my own lines etc on?(preferably free) Many thanks again

Hi - this is my first post, and hope you don't mind me posting what is probably a very basic question. I have been paper trading for a while now based on fibonacci levels. I had planned to put this into practice with spreadbetting and so have opened an account with Finspreads. However, I'm now...