Recent content by 737ngx

Hello, I have a scenario that happened to me last night that I cannot explain. Yesterday I opened a Sell trade on AUDCHF at 20:37:38 UK time with price 0.69238 I set a SL @ 0.69438 and a TP @ 0.68938 This morning I see the trade was closed because the SL was hit but when checking the history the...

Thanks this is interesting, I used ATR when I swing traded in forex on the daily chart. But on stocks, how do I read it? given I trade on the 1min chart how should I read the ATR?

Hello All, given the title let me give some background... Friday, however this happens to me most of the times, I was following a stock that gapped up pre market, it closed the previous day at about $3,00 and gapped up to $5,50, it had good volume on the day, during pre-market it reached about...

Hello All, quick technical question, if I have a running trade on MT4 with a TP and SL already set, if I have my computer closed, and the price reaches one of the two levels, will they be executed or not? I think that the info it is only sitting on my PC and that the broker does not see them...

Hello, can someone tell me what order type to use in the following situation if there is one? The strategy I am testing is based on going long on a stock only if the price reaches a specific price, So say the stock is trading at 3 dollars but I will only buy if the price gets to 3,10, I would...

Thank You for the detailed explanation, it makes total sense. Regards Nic

Hello, tonight I was playing with the demo account on Tradezero, I place a Limit Buy order for 100 shares of CSCO The order got filled immediately I than placed a Limit Sell order for 50 shares at about 15cents above the price I bought them for The price went past my price for about 4 cents, it...

I have been looking at investing.com site, they have a stock screener but it is not for per-market data, however they have a small section called "Pre-Market" under the stocks section, this page will show you Pre Market top Gainers, only the top 5 but for someone at the beginning phase of...

I have just looked into the broker TradeZero, despite their ZeroFree platform with limited functionality but real-time prices, I feel that having to pay 30 dollars only to deposit funds on the account and 70 to withdraw, as a beginner trader I think is too much. I am still searching for a...

Thank You for your reply, putting some effort in something I am trying to learn and want to be good at is just a requirement :) I am happy to put the work in... This is what I do now: I use my broker to place orders I use tradingview.com for charts and what possibly looks like real-time...

Hello, I did a search on the forum but many treads were either not answered or I did not find what I was looking for. I am based in Europe and use a broker that has 15 minutes delay on stock quotes. Normally this was not a problem since I mostly invested in long term funds. Now I am getting...

Hello, can someone explain to me how does the below scenario works? Let's say there is a stock that closed at 5 dollars yesterday, I place a pending order to buy 300 shares at 5.10 after closing time. The day after the stock goes up to 5.20 during pre-market trading and it opens at the bell...

Thanks for the reply, but just to be sure, if I buy before the ex div date, but I sell before the payout date, would I get the divident? Thanks Nic

Hello, can I get some guidance on a question I have around stock dividends, If a company pays dividends every 3 months, I buy stock for that company but I only keep them for 6 weeks and sell them before the payout date, will I still be entitled to 6 weeks worth of dividends? I was reading an...

Hello All, I have been playing with a free scanner at finviz.com, I am trying to set correct filters to identify possible useful stocks for this strategy, but I am not sure I do the right thing. I set the price to under $5 I set Avarage Volume to Over 1M I get Gap to ... start from Up 20% and...