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Tro is good at programming but he is still learning to trade successfully like the majority of folks here. This doesn't mean he is a bad bloke, in fact i like his rebellious style and him giving the two fingers to a lot of forums.

If i can give any advice on trading it would be this, the market is a game rather than a set of rules and once you can see this only then will you succeed without fear, you all have a god given gift that will allow to you achieve this but unfortunately this gift is never spoken about because you are not meant to know even though you already do know but you have no idea how to apply it to the markets. One day someone will come along and show other people how you can really achieve success in the financial markets, until then the 5% of you who achieve success in these markets will find out eventually through determination and the refusal to fail, everbody has the abilities but cannot see the woods for the trees. Do not listen to anyone except yourself, if you see a guru and he is a so called expert and is also involved in selling a service or an ebook then realise that they are not successful hence why they are trying to sell you something, ignore this advice at your own peril. Take one stock, one currency, one indice and watch it everyday until you know it better than you know yourself, feel its rhythm and then dance with it. Can you not see how you fail ? can you not see how every trade goes against you, ask yourself ....why can this be ? what does the market know that i don't know.......the answer is this.....the market knows you and everyone else and that is why it goes against you. Everyone talks about it being a zero sum game blah blah blah.........the truth is this.....the markets are man-made and because of this man can manipulate them as he wills and he does....now understand this......nobody on this forum can manipulate the markets but it does not mean that nobody on this earth cannot manipulate them, man cannot manipulate the wind but he can manipulate the markets because he made them. Take only what you need from what i have said........... [ame= ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb1jBn0uEOc[/ame]

What Blowfish said...

It ain't that bad really.......

It is not as depressing as it may sound i was just being realistic, every morning when i start the UK trading session i will be sat at my charts and just as the session starts i will hit "play" on my ipod and through my Bowers & Wilkins speakers........ [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rqZ5SisGsc]this soundtrack will erupt[/ame], if trading was bad the day before then my day will start [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhlPAj38rHc]with this[/ame]....working from home aint all that bad really

I'll give you credit Rumpled One you are persistent,i dont think i have came across a forum or blog that you have not managed to invade, it is people like yourself who just go to prove how hard trading really is, cmon rumpled one you make more money from your indicators than your trading. 10/10 for marketing... Don't get me wrong Rumpled one i respect you and your work for what it is.

Loneliness is the worst of it, working all day on your own, your girlfriend comes in from her job and she does not want to talk about a retractment on cable, she says "how was your day" you say "yeah great i made 50 pips " she then proceeds to tell you about her day at work and the stories about her colleagues but you know better than to bore her with details about your day at work ,even though she wants to hear it she has no clue whatsoever about what you are talking about so you don't. You then have a bad week trading and you start to doubt yourself and your methods , you start to wonder why you decided to get into this in the first place.....you realise that your girlfriend has more faith in your abilities than you do yourself. There are huge downsides to trading at home....i have came so far and do not want to quit because i am not a quitter but sometimes i think that if i could turn back the clock then i would not have got into this business. Yes you can make a living but it is very hard and it takes a lot of self discipline which to me is the hardest part. I once made the same money that i make now and it was a lot easier than trading but one day i decided that i would fulfill my dream of being what i had always wanted to be..... a trader....but the grass is not always greener on the other side. I have spent one year of my life (about 10hrs a day every day for the last 300 odd days) sitting at home learning to trade and trading with the the belief that if i put my mind to it i will be successful, i have still not managed to buy that indoor swimming pool or yacht in Monte Carlo. When i was 15 years old i would buy the financial times and watch CNBC, papertraded and studied the laws of probability and everybody that knew me thought i was destined for great things....well guess what i am 32 years old and i have not achieved much..ok so i never traded or looked at the markets from when i was 16- 30 but being a trader was always in me and when i hit 31 i took the plunge......well guess what ? it is not all it is cracked up to be. You know better than to discuss what you do with anyone unless you happen to want to get into a conversation about this person that they know who plays poker in their spare time, if you tell people you trade the markets they think you are nothing but a gambler and sometimes i wonder if they are right. Hard work, no laughs at work unless it is on a forum or some silly youtube video, no work colleagues to go for a pint after work, sitting on your own like a hermit 9-5 every day....it sucks. Studying this theory that theory..backtest ...backtest, price action,patterns, indicators,variable net change, dow theory, Wyckoff, VSA If i can give any advice to anyone starting in this business it would be this...... Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a ******* big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suit on hire purchase in a range of ******* fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the **** you are on Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing ******* junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourselves. Choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got trading?

Hallo flyingdutchmen, G'day kiwi, Thanks for the replies and i agree about the bucketshops and variable prices between brokers. As for volume i have never ever used it in forex but after listening to Tom Williams i wanted to clarify my original thoughts...so thanks for that. The other reason i ask is because my best friend is a senior broker with one of the largest firms in the UK and we have had some great conversations on so called "volume" in forex .... he also says that the majority of succesful people who take the most money from them use EA's. I look forward to contributing here.

Hello everyone, Great forum , i wish i had found this place a long time ago... I have a question and as lacking in wisdom as it may be i will ask anyway. I understand all the talk about how volume is non existent in forex and tick volume is pointless due to there not being a centralized exchange but my question is as follows. If the volume i see on a chart is not "real" volume then how do i know that the price i am seeing is also not the real price. How can all of us see the same price no matter where we are in the world but none of us can see the volume. How can every broker manage to correlate the price but not the volume ?