Hi Forexmospherian,
I have been reading your post in here. I would like to ask a question about a situation. If its already answered then i am extremely sorry. Its bit a long thread.
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Here in 1st few post you said, "If a trade is not in profit or going my way within 2- 3 minutes - i might exit if I have over 3 pips - as my spreads on key pairs are under 2 and as low as 0.3 pips - so forget the nonsense of the cost of more trades ."
What you do during NFP? that time market move more than 20 pips in 1-2 mins, sometimes may be more. What you do then?
Even before the news release there is an undecided choppy movement occurs, which could eat 5-10 pips SL easily. How you manage then? Do you avoid trading in those risky timing?
Hi Sun11
To be able to make all trades from a 3- 7 pip soft or mental stop - average 5 pips - you need to be very experienced and be skilled at reading market timings.
For example with the NFP - i would not be in a scalp at the news - but would try and enter with 9 mins afterwards ( ie within the TW) OR if not possible due to spikes etc - I just wait another 12 mins to next TW.
My methods are complex and ideally you need say 18 -24 months of basic FX knowledge to have a chance of understanding them
Unfortunately - you do need loads of hours on live charts - at what I call the coalface on tick and 1 min charts.
After say 3000 -5000 hrs you start to spot things happening more regularly.
By 10k live hours - you are then full skilled - trouble is it can take 5 to 7 years part time to get there and even 2-4 years full time spending over 50 hrs a week.
Check out any FX pair at the end of the day - and then see how many moves stop and start all at certain prices and times
The skill is then converting the learnings and knowledge into your strategy
I will have losing trades - my win ratios per 100 live trades range between 62% and 87% - and now I am over 16k of live trades.
Thats really why I am able to do it and If you embark on the journey - I can tell you after you make say 2000 live trades using my methods etc - It all becomes well worth while
Have a good day and if I can help etc more - please feel free to join in etc etc
All the best
F