What annoys you most in Forex

No. Just people who never traded, ordinary people who thinks this is a much easier endeavour. It this was too dam easy why they don’t trade by themselves?

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The single thing I hate the most in forex is when my perfectly thought out trades turn out to be losers :slight_smile:

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technical analysis torn to shreds by economic news - not good

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that’s why i don’t set stop losses. i sit and watch the trade and using technical analysis, i try to get the best bet where the direction will take a u-turn, once it’s abotu 10 pips or so close, i take the money i have won already. so i don’t have to deal with this kind of pain.

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The simple fact that there is no right and no wrong.

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Sit and watch the trade? you must have no hair left haha

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haha, yes this is also very annoying for a technical trader especially if he is trading on a higher time frame and a good trader of a day or two is wipped of by a bad news report.

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My biggest challenge is not taking trades that turn out to be winners. Lots of times I hold back because there’s a big event ahead or because I already have a similar position with another pair.

Right now I’m working on being more confident in my trade ideas and stepping up my trade management skills. Hopefully I’ll get less should-have-been trades over the next few months.

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Thought of a couple more…

Gurus trying to flog their amazing system - if its as good as they say, why aren’t they drinking champagne on their yacht in the Caribbean instead of trying to hook noobies for $20 a month?

Noobies who’s first post is asking others to tell them how to make money because their too lazy to be a###d to learn it themselves

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Waiting…

I used to trade like a hamster on speed…

Now I target one or two pairs, always the same ones,

with a clear bias, and wait, and wait, and wait for the

right entry after pullbacks in a trend…

Plenty of false starts, so you can get caught out…

Better to lose 70 pips out of a possible 200-300 pip

move, say, than jumping in too early on a false move

because of impatience.

But the waiting will be worth it…

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It is true that patience is a virtue. That is why in Forex we must be patient, wait for the right momment, but dont freeze either.

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Really loss annoys me most. We all have good expectations of earning from this market but when it didn’t work out for us, we seem not to be happy. All I am doing now is trying my best to limit losses while I increase my chances of gaining from this market.

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I think that being patience and keeping calm is the hardest, specially when numbers are moving against you.

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I hate it when a ‘red’ announcement comes out such as the GDP and it is negative however, the currency rallies out of control. I’m beginning to think that I should stay away from important announcements.

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One of the things you will notice is that “news events” aren’t meant to move the currency in the direction of what the new event suggest the price should go. The reality is news events are events which can push a currency 2x to 50x in 1 hour more then what the currency had traded over the past 24 hours. One of the things which you will see many people do is take positions right before news events only hoping to make a quick buck off of the shift in the price which will occur. The reality is trading in such a matter is at best gambling, and takes away from the essence of trading.

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Actually that doesn’t bother me. As long as I followed my rules I can accept that sometimes things just turn against you. Not sticking to my rules bugs me, even if it worked in my favour.

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when you have had a losing streak and you start to doubt yourself and then you can’t tell anymore if it’s because the trade is just bad or you are doing it because you’'re afraid

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1-2 ticks away from TP then 10+ pips reverse -.-

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[QUOTE=“Huck;685814”]My biggest challenge is not taking trades that turn out to be winners. Lots of times I hold back because there’s a big event ahead or because I already have a similar position with another pair. Right now I’m working on being more confident in my trade ideas and stepping up my trade management skills. Hopefully I’ll get less should-have-been trades over the next few months.[/QUOTE]

You have a plan for a reason. Stick to it.

If anything open a second account to fine tune ideas and concepts where you might find a way to better optimize your plan.

But to not adhere to the plan you have negates the reason for having a plan to begin with.

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That the forex forums are cesspools of scam artists and fraudsters.

The new and the stupid I can understand, that was all of us at one time.

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