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Originally Posted by ToothSayer
1. Returns are completely unverified, and bizarrely, OP refuses to provide real time posts. Of even a fraction of his trades when it's convenient. There have been lots of cons on the Internet, it's easy to fake this stuff.
FFS, this again... From now on, I will start posting some real-time trades in here. I would've thought that the Forex Factory Trade Explorer would've been enough. Seriously - go on Forex Factory and look at any member that has a Trade Explorer (it will show at the bottom of their post if they do). You can't fake that. And I submitted the actual link to my TE in an earlier post, so that squashes the possibility of me doctoring the screenshot. You submit your account info and the website tracks all of your trading in real time. It is a 3rd party that is completely unbiased.
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Originally Posted by ToothSayer
a) Forex has consistent returns available to an average person trading for the first time, of> 50% month
b) OP is a fraud
c) OP is on an enormous heater.
a) At no point did I say that I was trading for the first time. I have traded real money in the past (albeit unsuccessfully up until this point)
b) See mark "twang" response... I, too, cannot fathom why anyone would go to these lengths to fake something like this for such a long period of time. There's no logic to that at all.
c) This could very well be explained by an enormous heater. I certainly cannot provide any compelling evidence at this stage otherwise. If I were to analyze the majority of my winning trades, it would be from betting against the USD (I touched on this already at the end of my 2nd month). What I've been doing is really nothing complex. The focus of my success to this point has been acknowledging that I will lose as many, if not more, trades than I win. Knowing that, I make it a point to cut losers short and let the big winners (9 times out of 10 shorts of the USD) run as long as I'm able to. So far it has worked. Perhaps it will all come to a screeching halt. We'll see.
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OP is now down to (absurdly, bizarrely) claiming that a few seconds is the difference between winning and losing, for trades that are held for hours.
I would've thought you'd know that spot forex is remarkably volatile, particularly around the NY open. And this consideration has far less to do with trade duration, and more so the fact that I place tight stops and execution is everything when you do that,
especially when you're trading the small time frames. And, it was only the difference in winning and losing in the context of your wager terms, particularly the stipulation of taking the price at the moment I post on 2+2. If something were to come up in the time between the actual execution and the time I was able to post, it would mean a huge difference between where price was at the actual execution and what price I would be held to per the terms of your rule. I understand your reason for requesting it though, but it's just not worth it given my current trading approach. That you still haven't accepted that reasoning really underscores the fact that you don't trade short-term forex.
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And claiming that he is unable to post be he is trading at work and might get distracted; he is however able to have a trading window open and watch ticks and make trades, but typing 100 AUDUSD @ 0.73 and hitting submit is too much for him.
Again, there was no point where I ever said I was unable to post. That was purely in the context of the wager, in which I wanted
every trade to count, and in which by your rules there was the possibility that every trade wouldn't. It was purely a hypothetical conversation as to being unable to post, and the fact that you're presenting it otherwise is rather disingenuous and frankly beneath you.
At any rate, I will start posting some real-time trades, since apparently 3rd party, real-time tracking mechanisms aren't enough for you.
Last edited by CandyKreep; 08-19-2017 at 06:29 PM.