One of the few important things to take in to consideration when formulating a trading plan is to consider maximum drawdown before you stop trading any strategy and reevaluate. It all depends upon personal risk and tolerance level for example if you have 20% drawdown you will need to make 25% to...
PipZombie,
Yes it does makes sense to stop trading as per your trading plan. I am in the same boat as you. I think we may be entering a new type of market phase which has not been seen in last 2 years but it is very common in terms of bigger market cycle.
Ultimately it comes down to having...
It seems to me that everybody is using some different settings. For example many today are +10 or +30. Anybody with standard setting of 35/40/20BE trading today?
Yes trading off the charts is not possible in MT4 and you have to open up the order window to adjust the SL and TP. This is one of the main reasons the real scalpers don't use them. The only way to get around are the EA's. But again they are good if you have fixed SL, TP and trailing stops...