Recent content by paulb

Do you mean the spike around 1530 GMT? After the weekly US oil inventories announcement?

I saw some examples of past classic set-ups with pin bars on another forum, and checked them on my charts. One was not there at all as I was in a different time zone from the person who posted the pin bars. There has been a little past discussion here too about the fact that not everyone's...

Hope we are not too off-topic here. There were threads here on some of the companies though you might have to wade through a lot of stuff to find what you want. It partly depends what you want to trade, in what time frame. Most companies have a product sheet which you can download, giving a...

I was interested to see where my trendlines were...and noticed that if you draw your line number 3 not from the high in around 1989, but from an earlier high in 1986, then there is a channel formed with a parallel line from a 1985-ish low to one in 2000.

Why do you think it will keep going down so low, please? And jgos2, same question to you.

I saw your call, was very hesitant as I don't normally trade indices except very short-term, lost a few pips with a tight stop on a long as it failed to move upwards, but then scalped quite a lot more as it went down through 3900 - so thanks for the call!

As far as I can see the lines just separate off the days, as is normal - there is two hours of data only on the Sunday night, from 2200-2400. This assumes that the data feed stopped at 2100 on Friday night. My memory is that IG used to quote prices up to 2200 or 2215 on Friday night (when US and...

Chart discrepancies I puzzled for a while over why cable had hit the bottom of your trendline (first thumbnail - was attached to your post), but not of mine (second thumbnail). The answer seems to be that I have data for the couple of hours of late Sunday trading on mine, and it is missing on...

Gold If you want to follow gold long-term, and understand what drives it, use Jim Sinclair's website Welcome To Jim Sinclair’s MineSet. Gold is a safe-haven refuge, but when the stock market tanks, sometimes people sell off gold and lots of other stuff to meet margin calls and cover losses...

I hope you continue to post. If people just follow you, one step or more behind, without making their own assessment of a trade, that is their problem. It was clear enough to me when I joined this thread that people were discussing potential set-ups but not offering complete recommendations...

Just logged in OK - unfortunately, as I need to keep away. I was trading today in a really undisciplined fashion so lost money even though the trades I was considering actually went in the direction I wanted! had to go out unexpectedly till mid-morning, came back to find gold shooting up, went...

Don't know about the demo, but on the live platform the best way to trade IMO is to have several browser windows open (File/New Window or CTRL+N). Use one for live prices e.g. My Portfolio, one for open positions, one for amending stops/losses. Resize windows smaller so you can see them all at...

Yes, trading the news is risky. What I need if I am trying it is predictability of risk. So I need to know that the platform behaves pretty consistently, and that the messages it gives about trades are accurate. Yes, all platforms I have tried have occasional glitches - maybe they will just...

Unnecessarily rude, I think

CMC vs. CS and IG I have given up trading with CS at any time when a quick in and out may be necessary, e.g. after news announcements. This is largely due to the slow fills, consequently not knowing whether a trade is accepted or not, "price no longer valid" messages, "unexpected error"...