Hello Everyone - Introducing Myself and Something Useful

Community Introduce Yourself
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Hi Everyone,

Trader for past 5 years on Forex EURUSD primarily… Doing relatively good at it, but usually have hurdles to overcome, as with most I suppose. I hope I can learn something useful being here from all of you… Thanks for welcoming me!

Also, on a related note, I created a list of known economic calendars online below that might be useful for you all (hope it helps)…

  1. EconoDay - Free but not very thorough and hard to navigate
  2. Trading Economics - Generally good but not as thorough as others
  3. EconoCal - Paid (no ads) with community engagement features that aggregates other economic calendars
  4. ForexFactory - Very well known and popular, easy to navigate and reliable
  5. FX Street - Lots of ads and alerts, can be complicated to navigate (not user friendly)
  6. TradingView - Excellent layout and navigation, one of the best out there
  7. Baha - Very simple interface but the site can be a bit much on the eyes
  8. DukasCopy - Decent and easy to navigate
  9. Investing - Somewhat popular but a bit to small to navigate
  10. BabyPips - Another popular one, very nice navigation and easy on the eyes
  11. MyFXBook - A good one with easy navigation and good data

Thanks and look forward to having great discussions here!

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Welcome to the community and thanks for sharing that list of economic calendars. I personally use the Babypips calendar.

Looking forward to hearing more from you!

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Welcome. Could you tell me what are the hurdles that you have to overcome? And were you able to achieve the goal at some points?

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Hi Andrew_100,

Biggest hurdles were:

  1. Finding a reliable economic calendar to use because I trade fundamentals mainly; it came down to TradingView and EconoCal in the end
  2. Money management; using too much of my money with high lot counts to trade; now I am more cautious and trade smaller lots with a longer term plan on my earnings
  3. Finding technicals to be useful in the end to plan my trades alongside my fundamental analysis

I managed to achieve all three in the end, yet still have a few hurdles. Keeping a trading log/diary is very helpful and avoiding major economic announcements like interest rate decisions helped a lot.

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That was really insightful for me, thank you for taking time to write this! I am planning to start logging my entries in the diary.