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Daytrading RECAP 04/07/20 - SPY Cost Me -1.875%!!Hi traders, Tom with another recap here. *In my ID trades, I risk 1% of the account per trade and go for 2% (2:1 RRR ). Sometimes I adapt a little bit as you can see in the graphs.* I hate losing as much as the next guy, but let's be honest, trading comes with losses and as long as you keep them low it's fine! Two trades today: 1) APA - entry LONG @ 6.85 with 6.45 SL, exited @ 6.5 (saved some money) 2) DAL - entry LONG @24.01 with 23.61 SL, exited @SL SPY behaved funny for my trading style and spoiled my plays. But hey, it's always times like this to come up with some tweaks. This means I gave up -1.875% today, but still slightly profitable for the week and we've got still 2 more days to go! Last week I ended with +8% so let's see. Fingers crossed ;) How was your Tuesday? Did you beat me? Good trades, Tom from FINEIGHT
AMEX:SPYLong
by Fineight
2
BTC is going to cream everyone then move to the sky.With all the added pressure on the currency market due to corona virus, Bitcoin is set to sail. I predict that most economies are going to tank a lot further yet also. It is not wise to buy yet, wait for all the "dumb money" to buy, get wiped out by market makers, then buy. See how easy it is to see stop losses, do you not think that big institutions can't see them??? Liquidity for the taking. I will be looking to buy coins around the orange price. Also I will not be trading bitcoin, I will be buying the coins and storing them into a secure offline wallet. Must better to invest in bitcoin for long term than to try trade it. This is long term idea and is NOT a trade but an INVESTMENT.
BITSTAMP:BTCUSDLong
by joebrownFX
7
ATOM/BTC very risky trade for low reward.Hello Traders, ATOM/BTC dont have a profit/loss factor trading, For us to enter a position we always have a stop loss value, and for that our target has to be at least twice as much as our stop value, that is, for us we enter a position where our stop is at 4% we will want to profit at least 8% in this operation to be worth the risk. For atom we can see that the only entry point that make sense is above the 0.00045 sats, and we have a very important resistance at 0.00050 sats, that means our stop will be 10% to have a chance to win 10%, so dont worth the risky that is what we call profit loss factor.
by MarketMinds
USD/CHF - Trade 1 - $5000 with 5% If I were to enter this trade with a 5% risk with a $5000 account Profit = $1262.02 Total Amount = $6262.02 Loss = $250.00 Total Amount = $4750.02 Total Trades = 20 with a 5% risk Goal = < 50% Win Rate Key Points: Fibonacci Level Support - Resistance - Key Levels 61.80% Lined up with support level Trend line + Support level = Trading Range (Area between trend line and support) -38.20% level would be maximum profit? Support level would be maximum profit? Trade 1 Result = ?
Long
by austinlmkc
Looking at the MACD, 4EMA and bollinger bands shows BTCUSD LongFor the upcoming week (several days), I would say there will be a price increase for BTC/USD symbol, by just looking at: RSI (not in current graph (sorry I don't have a pro account) MACD for sure! See the cross coming up on the 1D chart 4EMA is getting ready as well The price is less volatile and low in the bollinger bands Currently I bought BTCUSD futures at Bybit with 3x leverage for long in the coming days. See the dotted green lines for both stop-loss and take profit limits. Future plan: looking at the super trend later on..
BYBIT:BTCUSD.PLong
by Melroy89
6
GBPJPY - Long Trade - Up to ResistanceHello all - DuncanForex here with another trade idea I am looking to go long on GBPJPY Although there are trade wars going on in the back ground and in turn short term sentiment is being impacted. At the same time GBP is yo-yo-ing due to ongoing Brexit Hard or Soft short term sentimental views. I am going long GBPJPY, however will be managing the trade closely due to this. The website is now live - please head over for a lot of free content. Thanks for looking at my trade idea Duncan
Long
by UnknownUnicorn483829
How to interpret the results of my Dollar Cost Average indicatorGood morning to the US, Good afternoon to the EU, and Good night to ASIA This post has 2 purposes. 1) Showing you with the video below how to use my indicator Dollar-Cost-Average-Data-Window-Edition/ 2) Collect your likes and move up in the Pine scripters ranking (no shame) Let's start with the first goal here Here's a quick reminder of what's the Dollar Cost Average investment/trading method Dollar-Cost Averaging is a strategy that allows an investor to buy the same dollar amount of an investment on regular intervals. The purchases occur regardless of the asset's price. My Dollar Cost Average (DCA) indicator will analyse for the defined date range, how the DCA method would have performed vs investing all the hard earnt money at the beginning If you missed the video above, here's the link again Dollar-Cost-Average-Data-Window-Edition/ (Yes people ask me info that are on the description, screenshots, videos so please don't take it personally if I repeat myself a bit, trying to get my inbox empty by the end of day and receiving loads of questions already answered won't help :p) The DCA performance versus Your trading performance Full disclosure here before going further ..... it's not because a DCA methodology worked in the past that it's guaranteed to work in the future. Otherwise, trading will be too easy and we''ll be all multi-millionaires But as we say often that the "trend is your friend", dollar cost averaging on a bullish market in a daily/weekly/timeframe is often (but not always) a way to make a decent amount of money To be honest, most of my friends who dollar cost average are making much more than many of my traders friends who're staying hours per day in front of the chart. They take less trades but they're consistent with their method. DCA allows to reduce the stress of trading, the stress of chosing the right moment, the right news and the right crypto animal twitter accounts to follow. A day trader, is more likely to commit mistakes in my opinion. This is certainly not because you take more trades that you'll have a better performance and I hope my tool will highlight it for you. Taking more trades increase the risk of losing as each trade is an opportunity but also a risk and the higher the number of trades, the higher the risk is of losing your previous gains This educational post is not an invitation to DCA blindly and abandon your trading not all. Because if you do, I'll be unemployed... but a great way to introspect and think and ask yourself the good questions : - Am I outperforming a DCA method ? - If my personal performance is negative or way below the DCA, should I reallocate part of my trading capital into a DCA-oriented methodoogy ? The DCA humbled me a lot on assets that I was so sure to have a killer performance with my trading. It has been and still is a great trading lesson that I'm sharing with you today See you tomorrow for the strategy version of that indicator which will help you compare side to side your own strategy vs a DCA ____________________________________________________________ Feel free to hit the thumbs up as it shows me that I'm not doing this for nothing and will motivate to deliver more quality content in the future. - I'm an offically approved PineEditor/LUA/MT4 approved mentor on codementor. You can request a coaching with me if you want and I'll teach you how to build kick-ass indicators and strategies Jump on a 1 to 1 coaching with me - You can also hire for a custom dev of your indicator/strategy/bot/chrome extension/python
BITSTAMP:BTCUSDEducation
by Daveatt
1
How to use the Risk to Reward/PnL toolHeyaaaa As promised, here's the video tutorial showing in silence/muted how to use the new indicator published today Risk-Reward-InfoPanel/ I'll try from next week to buy a microphone and you'll all hear how nice is my french accent.... I can imagine the complains I'll receive saying no one understood anything. Will be fun for sure Anyway, please let me know in the comments section if anything is not clear. You have the source code for FREE so I'll hope you'll learn from it and invent something cool, sharing with the community and pay me royalties. Don't forget the French arm who fed you in your young trading years my apprentices. PS Remember my Trade Manager (Open Source) version ? Trade-Manager-Open-Source-Version/ ? You for sure can connect the Take Profits and Stop Loss to a Risk/Reward and PnL panels. This will update in real-time your PnL based on the data on the chart this time I did it myself this afternoon with my version of the Trade Manager See y'all tomorrow for a new indicator/new day Dave
BITMEX:BTCUSD.PEducation
by Daveatt
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First Loss In 2 Months - Important LessonWe just took our first trading loss in two months on the GBPJPY short that we initiated a couple of days ago. I always welcome losses when they are controlled and within the confines or our trading system , which this GBPJPY short was. Why is that? Because I know that every loss is one trade closer to the next big win. And having a 81% success rate since the last loss at the end of May 2019 tends to make any loss much more bearable ;) How do we remain unwaiveringly confident even in the face of losses? Easy. Trade with a system that has a proven edge. Not over one month. Not two month. Not even just one year, but a system that has a consistent track record over at least two years of backtesting. It should be rooted in sound technical analysis so that you know the odds are always in your favor when you place that next trade. Because we have so much data for this system we know all the stats related to it. Therefore we will start experimenting with even bigger position sizing in a separate "High Risk" account. It will ask to stomach much bigger drawdowns but for much bigger returns as well. More to follow, be safe and good luck!
Education
by FollowMyForex