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Re: How to Trade The Setup - Updated Daily (Trades & Concept

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Dear Sir Edie

Hope you're fine. Thank you for your questions. DMM FX all of a sudden becomes the worlds second largest broker... big news. Marketers are marketers. Whether they are big or small does not matter. FXCM is supposed to be the largest and we all know that they were caught doing dodgy activities such as fake slippages and other stuff for which they are now paying millions in fines. Having a good broker and learning how to trade are two things. Its good to have a good car but also a good driver. A good driver can drive any car a bad driver will wreck any car. :) Having said that, if you think DMM is good then thats great good for you and good luck. I have not used them so cannot comment but I warn everyone there is no Good broker in the world they are all unfortunately after your money. They are mostly unregulated and can at times do stuff we don't like but this is the world of forex so best to stay with the most reputable ones like the top 10 on the list but it depends where you get your list from. :)

Answers to your Question: :)
The Market has a structure and that structure is eWave and eWave has structure and that structure is AIMS Boxes. That structure almost never changes. A tree grows branches branches grow leaves and fruit. this structure does not change. Would you stop eating apple from apple tree because its 15 years old? The strategy explained in the Setup eBook works exactly as explained. The only thing changed is that currencies are not as volatile as they used to be. No problem, its actually opportunity. We traded m1 because it allowed us to trade with smaller stop losses. Now we can trade higher time frames and have smaller stop losses. We are happier than before. Now you can trade m5/h1 or M15/H1 using same technique explained in the book and you might not need more than 15pip stop loss. We are having great fun. But meanwhile I found an instrument that moves like EU used to move in the past. The trick is, you need a pair/commodity/stock or index that gives you a. lowest possible spread (max is 2pips spread) and b. more than 80 pips average daily range. If those two conditions are met, you might consider that pair for m1. For now no currency pair fit there as all of them are showing very tight average daily range. and as I pointed out , thats not a bad thing. Thats a good thing, its easier to trade higher time frames and with lower volatility things have slowed down making it even more easy to trade. So pick any pair EU or GU or UJ or EJ depending on spread and your geographic location and trade it on M15 or h1 or above.


Hope this helps

cheers

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The Consistent Pursuit of DS1 :nerd

The thing that makes me money in trading is when I "Objectively Follow my Trading Plan".

I understand that I can't catch all the moves or all the signals but my objective is to catch THE VALID SIGNALS & ONLY the Valid Signals.

My Deathbed Advice "5:1 Reward to Risk Ratio".

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Dear my Guru Immy,

THANKS MANY LOTS for your PRECIOUS ADVICE/INPUT! (Thank God who led me to you/AIMS that on midnight). NO REGRET!

God bless you, AIMS ,Tomi, & all AIMSters. Amen.
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Hi

Another bank holiday marred by lovely weather... You gotta love England for that .... not

Its been raining ALL day long, how blessed are we, aye?

The Dax did not really move today, hmmm, are all the investors/traders actually in London or something? Or perhaps the gap open has something to do with it. The trend was up though, all you had to do was take a long and hold. With benefits of hindsight very easy to say.. .haha ...


Lets roll on guys .. .tomorow.
What is the Secret of Successful Trading?
The Consistent Pursuit of DS1 :nerd

The thing that makes me money in trading is when I "Objectively Follow my Trading Plan".

I understand that I can't catch all the moves or all the signals but my objective is to catch THE VALID SIGNALS & ONLY the Valid Signals.

My Deathbed Advice "5:1 Reward to Risk Ratio".

Yo, banana boy! 🍌
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A great trading day mostly disciplined and enjoyable. It did appear a bit dull in the am but it was not really. I was able to spot waev c on H1 and traded it with m1 short which felt really good. Ofcourse after C there is a new impulse wave. C was dwn so impulse ave up went in the direction of the H1 trend. (Not that I want to be too much in the direction of H1 gator but I want to be in tune with the h1 wave analysis i hope you understand)
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What is the Secret of Successful Trading?
The Consistent Pursuit of DS1 :nerd

The thing that makes me money in trading is when I "Objectively Follow my Trading Plan".

I understand that I can't catch all the moves or all the signals but my objective is to catch THE VALID SIGNALS & ONLY the Valid Signals.

My Deathbed Advice "5:1 Reward to Risk Ratio".

Yo, banana boy! 🍌
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immy wrote:A great trading day mostly disciplined and enjoyable. It did appear a bit dull in the am but it was not really. I was able to spot waev c on H1 and traded it with m1 short which felt really good. Ofcourse after C there is a new impulse wave. C was dwn so impulse ave up went in the direction of the H1 trend. (Not that I want to be too much in the direction of H1 gator but I want to be in tune with the h1 wave analysis i hope you understand)
Nice trades Immy. I took the first and the third one, but not the second one. For second I didn't like that M5 gator was sleeping and waited for some movement on M5 first. Anyway nice trading. Very stress free. More boring it gets, more suberb it gets ;)
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Yes, Tomi, good to hear you enjoyed the day as well. What I'm doing is to trade more and more in line with the Flow chart. This way I can teach better, although I don't get to take my "feeling-bone-Indicator-based-cum-slightly-bent-rules" type of trades that others find a bit "un-entertaining" to "frustrating". I am not calling those trades not disciplined trades but in light of flow chart surely not setups. Its a decision you gotta make. And to make more objective is a better choice.

So its strictly Grant's Flow Chart and Trade Management Rules. Ofcourse everyone has the right and tendency to trade slightly differently but thats ok as long as the core is the same. Most important thing here is to trade with the dots. That is different for me. I always followed gator on its own, although I always had dots on the screen, they kind of stayed in the background for me whereas now they are on the forefront of every trading decision. We all know that Dots are a very objective way to do it and its great for "learning environment".

Hope you go to your bank one day, boringly and take out a big some!
What is the Secret of Successful Trading?
The Consistent Pursuit of DS1 :nerd

The thing that makes me money in trading is when I "Objectively Follow my Trading Plan".

I understand that I can't catch all the moves or all the signals but my objective is to catch THE VALID SIGNALS & ONLY the Valid Signals.

My Deathbed Advice "5:1 Reward to Risk Ratio".

Yo, banana boy! 🍌
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Dots are excellent. There was a time long time ago when I didn't use dots as those were "just green crosses", now the dots are one of the basic bricks.

It will be extremely boring day when getting the million out of the bank, using wheelbarrow and hoping not to wind too much ;)
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Tomi wrote:Dots are excellent. There was a time long time ago when I didn't use dots as those were "just green crosses", now the dots are one of the basic bricks.

It will be extremely boring day when getting the million out of the bank, using wheelbarrow and hoping not to wind too much ;)
I guess I could say, why the hell did I not simply follow my own advice but I won't say that. Its simply amazing, I'm loving it. Trading is more fun, its even more stress free and there are no regrets if there is a missed wave unless there is a missed trade due to wrong analysis. But with dot analysis that hardly ever happens. Listen this setup, takes care of 90% of the major moves, or may be slightly less but thats teh beauty of it. You just don't have to over analyse at all. The Flow chart analysis is the best analysis I've seen.

I remember how it formed from bits of information that Grant put together and created this wonderful set of rules. I Called it the Three Rules whereas he broke them down objectively into a flow chart. A salute goes to Gman.

I'm lovin' it.
What is the Secret of Successful Trading?
The Consistent Pursuit of DS1 :nerd

The thing that makes me money in trading is when I "Objectively Follow my Trading Plan".

I understand that I can't catch all the moves or all the signals but my objective is to catch THE VALID SIGNALS & ONLY the Valid Signals.

My Deathbed Advice "5:1 Reward to Risk Ratio".

Yo, banana boy! 🍌
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Hi Tomi,

I want to ask.something. i tried live trading and lost few times. I put Pending Order (Buy/Stop) on say EUR/USD, which were minimum 10 pips away from.Bid/Ask.price. My questiom is:
1. Why my Buy/ Sell Stop got executed before the market price reached my Buy/Sell Stop?? I.think.i didn't see any spikes...or were they there in super fast lightning strike?

2..and i never defined Stop Loss in most trades with Buy/Stop.orders (my plan was to close the trade immediately once the market against me ay certain.pips), but after i executed my Buy/Sell Stop(without SL), i was surprised there was SL dotted line in.the chart, BUT in the terminal.window the SL.value always ZERO. How come that SL.appeared on the chart while i.never set it in.every of my New Order?

The above 2 unexpected things hsppened many times when.i did trading at around 03PM GMT to 8PM.GMT

Deeply appreciate yr advice
TX/Edie
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Edie wrote:i tried live trading and lost few times
We all encounter losses all the time. Sometimes few losses in a row. That's how trading and markets work. We can't control markets and we are just following the trading rules. Sometimes there are losses. The most important thing is to keep taking valid trades - and only valid trades - and winner trades will win the game in the long run.

Why not trading demo first and after few months successful trading continue to live. This is just my personal view: the problem is that trading rules are so simple that it requires an aha moment to realize how simple the rules really are. Only after getting the aha moment trading gets relaxing and enjoyable. It took me about two years to get a freaking aha moment.

For the actual questions. I think the changing spread got you in the first case. Spread can change rapidly and sometimes that triggers for long trades even though it seems that the price never visited high enough. There's nothing you can do about it and market works like that. You can minimize the effect by not trading just before news. Spreads usually widens rapidly during news time. Using a good broker helps in some cases, but basically it's a market behaviour issue.

For missing SL. Don't focus on why missing SL was set (metatrader helped you there ;) ), focus on why you didn't have SL. Remember this: ALWAYS USE SL. First how you define the lot size if you don't have SL because lot size is calculated using entry price and SL. Second, on M1 if the market makes a big move suddenly and you have calculated your lot size based on 10 pips, you might make a mega level loss. Central bank intervenes, sudden news comes, disasters happen... This is so important thing that I have my own trade management EA and it has a built in feature to add a missing SL if it's missing for some reason. (EA also deletes TP but that's for letting winners run and it's another topic (rofl) )

Hopefully I answered the questions. If not, it's because my lacking brain power in the morning and lack of coffee yet ;) Have fun chap!
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