I need some advice from some seasoned forex traders...I am a college

 

student studying finance and I am fairly new to forex trading but i have frequently day

 

traded some stocks. I opened up a fxcm account 3 days ago funded with $5,000. Today was the

 

first day that I traded it for about 3 hours. At the end of the 3 hrs I made a profit of

 

$1,042.25. It doesn't seem like I'm executing my trades very well though, so I'm wondering

 

if this is just luck or something like that. Is significant profit a sign of good

 

trading?

Hi mfostel,

Its quite encouraging of you to admit you've not been executing your trades very

well..Though some might say its just 'luck to catch a drop', it all depends on you, at the

end of the day..

Significant profits is just a MEASURE of good trading....You still have to create structures

based on your trading plan , in order to know where, when and how you went right or wrong in

your trading activities..

These structures includes your trading strategy, risk management and trader psychology..like

how do you reconcile an 80% gross profit with a 50 % relative drawdown?

How exposed are your trades for that session , in relation to your total equity? How do you

know when you are on a losing streak and how does that affect your successive trading

activities? Those, and more questions you ask yourself, would surely help in making you the

seasoned trader that you are meant to be.

P.S- As a graduate of Finance from the University Of Lagos, I would say you are building a background in news trading..as in, economic analysis and forecasts would be right up your alley..if you are real jiggy with your major.

[08:13:41 01/12/08] agba : Hi Stal

[08:14:34 01/12/08] agba : Is the sell stop at 1.5300 still valid, it has been stopped out

once today?

[10:37:35 01/12/08] Stalion : helloo everyone

[10:37:57 01/12/08] Stalion : yes, agba....it is...if stopped out, you reenter..

[10:38:05 01/12/08] Maximus : Heu Stalion...

[10:39:41 01/12/08] Stalion : 1st and 2nd target already hit for 125 pips..going for 3rd

target

http://i72.servimg.com/u/f72/11/82/15/01/montho11.gif

[10:39:56 01/12/08] Stalion : helloo there, max..

[10:40:03 01/12/08] Stalion : howz ur trading going?

[10:40:39 01/12/08] Maximus : very good i am out at 1.5175, thx...

[10:41:36 01/12/08] agba : DId not reentered waited fr ur response

[10:43:49 01/12/08] Stalion : Here, we tend to nurture traders to become independent after

time..once you get the thick of it, you tend to trade better yourself...in this case, am

sorry you didnt reenter..

[10:43:58 01/12/08] agba : Can I enter now?

[10:44:41 01/12/08] Stalion : not sure...it depends on the risk to reward ratio

[10:45:18 01/12/08] Stalion : our 3rd target is 1.5090..

[10:46:08 01/12/08] Stalion : u can still enter now, with a 50 pip sl..agba...

[10:46:10 01/12/08] agba : I will wait till us session

[10:47:29 01/12/08] agba : ok thanks

[10:47:43 01/12/08] Stalion : though the reward would be approximately the same, at current

market price

[10:48:12 01/12/08] Stalion : but the risk would be double since you got stopped out earlier

[10:48:44 01/12/08] agba : I entered @1.5128

[10:50:21 01/12/08] Stalion : no probs...time will tell..

[10:52:04 01/12/08] Stalion: remember, put a 15 or 20 pip trailing stop on price when you

are +20 pips ahead

[10:52:21 01/12/08] agba : ok

[11:15:57 01/12/08] agba : Thks Stal. Got 38pips

[11:41:17 01/12/08] Stalion : lol!

http://i72.servimg.com/u/f72/11/82/15/01/montho12.gif

[11:42:24 01/12/08] Stalion : price on cable have gone way beyond our 3rd target of

1.5090...for more than 210 pips,$210 minilot,$2100 standard lot

[12:08:50 01/12/08] Stalion : even after subtracting the 50 pip stop loss earlier in the

morning, we are still ahead

[13:33:36 01/12/08] djcarlos : I missed that exelent trade .... Sad

[13:34:07 01/12/08] Stalion : why? it has been out in the open for more than 24 hrs

[13:34:23 01/12/08] djcarlos : I stal.... this falll is going to have retracement???

[18:30:17 01/12/08] djcarlos : Hi, im looking CNN and US it was declared recently in

recetion

[18:30:45 01/12/08] Stalion : recession?

[18:31:37 01/12/08] djcarlos : sorry... yes recession in US... CNN said that is officialy

[18:35:07 01/12/08] djcarlos : about 20 minutes was declarated ... but they sais that the

recesssion start in december 2007

[19:10:07 01/12/08] Stalion : from a sell entry of 1.5300 to a low of 1.4805

[19:10:15 01/12/08] Stalion : almost 500 pips

[19:13:12 01/12/08] djcarlos : yes.... and I missed it.... I want to die .... I looked the

chat at 5:00 am... and the fall start at 6:00 am...

[19:15:52 01/12/08] djcarlos : but now i hope a good retracement

Stocks fall sharply on consumer spending worries - Yahoo! News

now wht wuld be the rebound of GBP/USD..............( i m holding the

 

position sell 153.5 to going on.

If there's going to be a rebound or retracement, fasi, I think its better we put a buy stop

on cable @ 1.4900, 1st target @ 1.4935..2nd target @ 1.4985..3rd target @ 1.5135...with a

stop loss @ 1.4805...Please check your risk to reward ratio before taking any trades.