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Stayed in a bit too long but not a bad result really
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[center]IF YOU CANT EXPLAIN IT SIMPLY YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND IT WELL ENOUGH (Einstein)

1% daily gain, compounded for 250 trading days, (approximately one year) would produce 1103% account growth[/center]

"Markets reflect the positioning of the sum total of investors – they are not driven by something an individual investor knows that the rest of us don’t, but they do to an extent reflect what investors think other investors are thinking and so can diverge in the shorter term from the economic fundamentals."
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150 glorious pips

opened trade at 1443 GMT, got stopped out at GL as a new fractal was forming 150.3 to the good after nearly 200 ! ! ! !

I would not want to have been on the wrong side of that trend, in hoping and praying mode.
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[center]IF YOU CANT EXPLAIN IT SIMPLY YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND IT WELL ENOUGH (Einstein)

1% daily gain, compounded for 250 trading days, (approximately one year) would produce 1103% account growth[/center]

"Markets reflect the positioning of the sum total of investors – they are not driven by something an individual investor knows that the rest of us don’t, but they do to an extent reflect what investors think other investors are thinking and so can diverge in the shorter term from the economic fundamentals."
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Lovely way to start the day

Short just after 0700 after massive gap up

99 pips
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[center]IF YOU CANT EXPLAIN IT SIMPLY YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND IT WELL ENOUGH (Einstein)

1% daily gain, compounded for 250 trading days, (approximately one year) would produce 1103% account growth[/center]

"Markets reflect the positioning of the sum total of investors – they are not driven by something an individual investor knows that the rest of us don’t, but they do to an extent reflect what investors think other investors are thinking and so can diverge in the shorter term from the economic fundamentals."
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I dont think any of us are guilty of this. He got quite rich out of it but might have to make the best of 380 years in jail


A trader dubbed the 'Hound of Hounslow' accused of helping to cause a £350billion Wall Street crash placed up to 7.4million market orders in a single day, a court heard today.
Navinder Sarao, 37, allegedly made over £30 million from his west London bedroom by constantly placing and withdrawing offers to sell or buy commodities in deals he never intended to execute.
On one day he is said to have placed 7.4million orders, accounting for nearly half of similar market activity across the entire Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
Sarao faces extradition to the US over 22 allegations of wire fraud, commodities fraud and market manipulation between June 2009 and April 2014, which could incur a prison sentence of 380 years in prison.
Today the US government claimed Sarao's 'dishonest' trading of contributed to a market imbalance which culminated in the Flash Crash on 6th May 2010.
The Crash, which lasted 36 minutes, saw the Dow Jones Industrial Average experience its biggest intraday point drop, plunging 998.5 points.
Sarao is said to be worth £27million after working as a lone trader from his parents' semi-detached home in west London.
Today, he sat with his head bowed throughout proceedings. He is accused of using an automated trading programme to place large volumes of 'sell' orders, before cancelling them. The activity allegedly helped drive market prices down.
The court heard he would constantly modify the prices of his 'sells' to continue the pattern, before buying at 'bargain' prices.
'The prosecution allegation is that by that trading he engaged in what is known as spoofing - spoofing is market manipulation,' said Mark Summers QC, for the US.
Mr Mark Summers, QC, said Sarao had succeeded by creating an 'Illusion there is a market for that product and the illusion of liquidity.'
Sarao then 'took advantage of prices he has artificially created,' Westminster Magistrates' Court heard.
'He was dishonest in his trading and never had any intention of letting his sell orders be executed,' said Mr Summers.


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[center]IF YOU CANT EXPLAIN IT SIMPLY YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND IT WELL ENOUGH (Einstein)

1% daily gain, compounded for 250 trading days, (approximately one year) would produce 1103% account growth[/center]

"Markets reflect the positioning of the sum total of investors – they are not driven by something an individual investor knows that the rest of us don’t, but they do to an extent reflect what investors think other investors are thinking and so can diverge in the shorter term from the economic fundamentals."
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This morning, NFP day, it's up and down like a whore's drawers. Dont know why, and it has been tricky to trade in this mess

Here's one of my better tries, although I was late getting out
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Rather near the mad moments of NFP in 12 minutes, so I'm out of here now by a push of the button rather than SL or target or anything other than caution

Happy with this result and happy with the week.


Pips in last 100 trades on scatter graph might look mainly negative but they were enough for +32% ROC

A fund manager sent me this today, to justify his firm's poor performance "There has been more turbulence than normal in our portfolios, but this is due to the unusual increased correlation between asset classes, as well as the increased difficulty of making tactical calls in such “irrational” markets." Hey isn't it nice that we don't have to concern ourselves with a lot of the stuff they need to be aware of! I am trying to make trading easier for myself by keeping it simple, and it seems to work.
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after a bit of ranging and multiple losses I was lucky to get into this trend

150 precious pips. I came out on retrace to Green Line of gator. I would not surprise myself it fell more though

It seemed like a good hour's work.
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A lot of self examination going on here. If I stayed in that trade I'd have made possibly another 120 already. But a win is a win, and GL cross is a common reason in my plan to take the available profit. I had endured a bit of whipsaw prior and was very much in FEAR mode. And fear can play havoc with our adherence to strategies. Anyway I think even so, I probably achieved my target for the whole week from the trade as those 150 pips were worth 15% to me so I suppose I must thank the system warmly for putting me into the trade and keeping me in there as long as it did.
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1% daily gain, compounded for 250 trading days, (approximately one year) would produce 1103% account growth[/center]

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wiseambitions wrote: But a win is a win,
The above could be classed as the most Destructive Concept you or any other trader can ever accept and live with. Just warning others...
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Hi Immy

Actually I don't quite agree.

The most destructive concept might be
"I'm in a losing trade right now, but I'll hang on for a while then I'll quit if we get back to Break Even"

Today is the 3rd worst day for peoples UK share portfolios since Nov 2012 ie 3 years 3 months
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1% daily gain, compounded for 250 trading days, (approximately one year) would produce 1103% account growth[/center]

"Markets reflect the positioning of the sum total of investors – they are not driven by something an individual investor knows that the rest of us don’t, but they do to an extent reflect what investors think other investors are thinking and so can diverge in the shorter term from the economic fundamentals."
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