I have gone down with a bit of analysis paralysis could someone who is good at mathematics please check if my calculations are right.
I have forex tester which does not have MTF moving averages so i am trying to display two MA's on my chart on the 4hr I wish to convert the 5EMA on the Daily...
Just to let you know I have decided to do a BTEC level two Or Level three dpending on what the college decide for me and study a BTEC in Enterprise and Entrepreneurship the level 3 will gain me access to University where I plan on studying a Bsc Honours in Investment & Financial Risk Management...
I am asking your views as some of you on this site have gone through the educational system. I wish to know What courses would you take if you wanted to work as a Technical Analyst?
The reason for asking is I am considering studying
I am starting educationally from scratch so I am thinking of...
I am looking at a squawk service and wonder if any of you use RANsquawk or talking-forex.com I have looked in the forum archive seen some posts about RANsquawk but not anything to do with talking-forex.com have any of you had experience with them.
I agree with the above comments, start off demo trading until you are consistantly profitible then move onto a micro account yet again trade until consistantly profitible.
watch out for leverage it works both ways for you and against. Also search this forum lots of good info
I have the same provlem as well so it will be interesting to hear how others have handlled it
One thing you may wish to look at is ATR based stops, so its a volitility based stop loss.
but then true this will not help with a sudden spike over the volitility ATR Range.
I think Forex has gotton a little bit of a bad reputation as it is not going through an exchange like the financial futures are.
I also think unlike stocks you don't hear of Millionare Forex traders. apart from George Soros who made his money years ago. you dont hear of forex traders in the...
two of the options are
1 go to university study economics then in year 3 do an internship at a brokers.
2 open up a demo account and trade until you are consistently profitable then open a micro account and trade until you are consistently profitable.
Both methods are hard but option 2 is for...
One mistake that I use to make is not getting out of trades when the reason for trading them is no longer valid. I pass control over to hope and hope doesnt get you far in this game.
Leverage use to be another problem. I use to think of how much money I can make. Not how much I could lose.
that is a very good post.
i wonder what the failure rate is per market like Shares, forex, Options, Futures.
It cannot be 95% in all areas. It would be interesting if one of those areas has a higher survival rate and why.
I would say forget the various paid trading schools and open up a demo account and trade in it till you are consistantly profitable then move onto a Micro account and yet again trade in that till you are consistantly profitable. it may take you a year or more but atleast you will be able to...