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    Best Thread Correlation Trading - Basic Ideas and Strategies

    Hi N and anyone else out there, Wifey left big note on trading pc screens this morning before hopping off to work that said "Last day make the most of it" so I guess a sneaky look and trade is definitely not on cards for me tomorrow.... GU; First trade sell stop at 48012 quickly filled by...
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    Best Thread Correlation Trading - Basic Ideas and Strategies

    Hi N and all - or should that be anyone?, One of my last full morning sessions before bucket and spade time - yipeee! GU; First trade buy stop at 47184 filled during weird 08:05 bar, price moved up, drifted down to just below entry level then climbed up again to new 09:05 local high and...
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    Best Thread Correlation Trading - Basic Ideas and Strategies

    No Alan, NVP is definitely not that green.... BTW; How on earth did we draw that one? Simon.
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    Best Thread Correlation Trading - Basic Ideas and Strategies

    Hi N and anyone else, Well, its Friday and for once I'm not jumping around at the thought of glugging silly amounts of red nectar - actually I am as this week has been horrendous in terms of trying to catch some decent trades, but dont tell that to Betty Ford staff! GU; First trade long...
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    Best Thread Correlation Trading - Basic Ideas and Strategies

    Hi N, Wow! That looks spaghetti junction big time... Even on M1 time frame this morning GU was a monster to look at with wildly swinging bars. I think Alan got it 100% right when he mentions above about sitting today out, although UK and Euro central bank policy announcements dont really...
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    Best Thread Correlation Trading - Basic Ideas and Strategies

    Hi N and anyone else out there, I forgot that this morning was supposed to be the morning that part of my trading account had to be sacrifised to everyone else.... GU; First trade long entered at 45998 (eek!) on open 08:05 bar, price stalled then moved up and promptly slithered back down the...
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    Best Thread Correlation Trading - Basic Ideas and Strategies

    Hi Alan, Yeah its a big problem thats being emphasised currently with this intra day volatility, some of those big bars are just killers for sure but I'm keeping my head down and adhering to strict SL protocols as to try and widen these will just result in a bigger teddy being thrown out of...
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    Best Thread Correlation Trading - Basic Ideas and Strategies

    Hi N and everyone else, Not a clever morning this morning.... GU; Long entered at 44664 on open 08:15 bar, price got a kick up the proverbial and went up then retraced itself to just above entry level, tried to rise again then went back down and took out adjusted SL for 5 point loss. Second...
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    Best Thread Correlation Trading - Basic Ideas and Strategies

    Hi N and all, Felt a wee bit rough this morning so only GU pair trading today.... GU; First trade sell stop at 44208 filled during 08:05 bar, price shot down over 30 points (that allows SL adjust) then quite quickly recovered to close out trade for nada by small wick of 08:25 bar. Second...
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    Best Thread Correlation Trading - Basic Ideas and Strategies

    Hi N and whoever else out there, Normally I'd be whooping and hollering as its Friday and that means splashing around in gallons of red nectar armed only with a straw, but of course today is the dreaded urgh NFP day as well, so its caution time - let me just look that word up in a dictionary...
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    Best Thread Correlation Trading - Basic Ideas and Strategies

    Hi N and all, Straight into this morning's rather sticky bun fight.... GU; First trade buy stop at 47198 filled worryingly by weak 08:10 up bar, price luckily went correct direction and shot up over 40 points next two bars, flattened out and rolled over to take out trade during 08:40 bar for...
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    Best Thread Correlation Trading - Basic Ideas and Strategies

    Hi N and all else out there, Suitably refreshed from a rainy and windy holiday weekend (!) its time to get stuck into this short trading week which includes the nfp day vampire - run for the garlic.... GU; First trade short opened at 44976 on open 08:05 bar, price dropped like a stone then did...
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    Best Thread Correlation Trading - Basic Ideas and Strategies

    Hi Till, Nice one and very clever. I was PMing Neil about this a few weeks ago as the guy that does all my mt4 coding for me was looking at this and sent me a few examples which highlighted the problem of scale, in that using [say] an M5 tf (constructed with M1 tf for OHLC data array) then the...
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    Best Thread Correlation Trading - Basic Ideas and Strategies

    Hi N and anybody else, Yipeee its Friday! Time to break open the laughing juice and blot out this week's rather ragged trading performance, here is what I saw during this morning's session.... GU; First trade short entered at 45564 on open 08:15 bar, price found momemtum and moved down to...
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    Best Thread Correlation Trading - Basic Ideas and Strategies

    Hi N and anyone else out there, Apologies for intermittent postings (or should that read ramblings?!!) lately, I see I've been missing out on all the fun.... GU; First trade long entered at 44997 on open 08:05 bar, price shot upwards by over 35 points then fell down again to take out adjusted...
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