Been on this forum for some time now, and I have noticed that discussing actual trade ideas, trade setups and predictions is nowhere to be found. Posting trade journals, ■■■■■■■■ trade systems with altered results, “my friend told me about this amazing system”… This goes for all the sub categories, it is just bull. And Political Opinion? That sub is MAGA vs. the rest. Idiocy. Like I said, been a member for some time, lots of good stuff on BP, but the Forum is useless.
I just find in here and don’t see anything or interaction with traders
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It’s Babypips.
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You can start one and change what you deem to be the norm.
I strongly agree, in principle.
The members interested in that are all the ones who seem to leave (they do sometimes explain why).
I think “nowhere” is a slight exaggeration, though.
Counterexample -
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I think the problem is the people who do post this sort of content, like myself, start to loose interest because there is no “discussion” for the most part. I’ve always enjoyed sharing trade setups and ideas, but I work full-time and any “spare” time I have I try to dedicate to looking at charts and finding setups for the next day/week. It takes time and effort to post educational content here and when nobody interacts then it just feels like a waste of time.
I don’t post here for me, I post here for others.
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@MattyMoney Totally agree… I have been trading fulltime since 2017… So I had the time to post new strategies probably every other month about 3-4 years ago… I even published 3 or 4 complete threads on some of the better strategies…
Weeks of live calls on certain strategies just to prove they work with no feedback or interaction…
I began titling the posts Spoonfed FX… Some of my strategies I now post over on ForexFactory…
My biggest gripe with many of the new traders that float into this forum is they don’t even seem to be able to use the search function in a forum to find the information they are looking for…
Perfect example is the OP of this thread… After his initial Rant… @WeRideAtDawn went straight over to Dennis’s comprehensive SWA thread and left the post below…
How about reading the beginning of the thread…!! Perfect example of the point I made above…
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This forum has other problem . Mods and admins protecting better 'troll-users" because “the forum must be friendly” ignoring valuable users which try to protect new users. Even in this topic is that kind user, which share “knowledge” “random trading can be profitable” but doesn’t show ANY live results, only on demo. His post is still available on the forum and mix in head newbies. I didn’t write to it, I write to be more like mods and admins support, showing new traders FX world how it is, no “great equity curve” . I thought that BP is the last bastion of true…
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Since this very issue is now widely noticed and so good someone is raising it up, rather than just pinpointing the problem, i think these suggestions would work;
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Start your own interactive trading trade ideas just like i did mine EURGBP - Interactive Trading (EURGBP - Interactive Trading) if the pair your love and trade most doesn’t have an interactive trade ideas section.
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I would love those who had one, shouldnt hesitate sharing their links here and we also won’t bother bookmarking and interacting with such sections, since that’s something everyone in here all seek for. This supportive gesture would not only encourage owners of sections like this but also those who would like to create one.
Best regards everyone,
Ayọ
This is conclusive of a person, the Op, who ignores his obligation to apply himself to a research or fact-finding mission before airing his thoughts. Babypips has an abundance of threads where the strategies for entries are explained.
Here is one of them in addition to the few already mentioned.
I think it depends on what you’re looking for and where in your trading journey you are, as far as interacting with other members goes.
Some stuff gets super technical and I need to research it more, some stuff takes time to test on my own, and maybe it’s just me, but a lot of the more experienced traders I e come across here can sometimes have a giant attitude/ego. Like they’re the greatest thing since sliced bread. It’s not everybody. There’s others who post and post and encourage, but they don’t make you feel like an idiot.
But I think a lot of the new users just want instant pips with minimal work or understanding. Probably the biggest problem when you have all of YT telling you you can make $5000 in 45 minutes.
They come, they realize it’s actually really hard to be consistently profitable, and they leave for what they think is easier profits.
Just one trader’s experience.
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I agree - I think that’s true of most trading forums, really.
People quite often have unreasonable and unfulfilable expectations.
Yes, agree again.
I think the problems there are (1) that people are using sales/promotional material as “information” or even “education” and (2) that with an activity where so few people ever become steadily successful, it stands to reason that most broad consensuses of opinion among non-experts are going to be mistaken ones (but people don’t expect that or take it into account).
Don’t have any actual stats but I’m also guessing potential new users are also trying out crypto trading. I mean to get a wallet or exchange account and start “trading” is pretty easy. Why not just put money into some dog or cat coin that’s funny and gets stalked about on social media and watch it go up? So much easier than having to look economic news, TA, price action, market structure, risk management, entries and exits, rate cuts, blah blah blah.
Set and forget for some people is enough.
Couldn’t have said it better myself!
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There used to be a lot of it on here but most of teh competent traders have either been barred or wandered off because there is nobody left who can understand what they’re talking about !
There are still a few left - but they tend not to discuss “trading” as such anymore - because they’re “p*ssing in the wind”
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I’ve been reading bits of this Feedback section, including some older stuff there - so what you say just above makes perfect sense.
I haven’t been here 3 weeks yet, but you’ve been here 7 years, @Falstaff? It sounds like the main problems here haven’t really changed since as far back as anyone can see?
Yes, it takes time and effort. And with low interaction it seems a waste of time. But it does not have to be big, time consuming analysis. I’m talking about trade ideas, a down- or uptrend you notice, a fundamental that might be significant.
I am fully aware that a full analysis takes a lot of time. The lack of response is demotivating but we have to start somewhere.
A lot of good feedback here, but we need to also consider the audience like @samewise points out. Babypips is not the place for massive, highly technical analysis going on for miles. Anyway, this is my opinion and I believe it will make Babypips better. At least get rid of the Political Opinion chat, that has no place in a trading chat room. I believe there are quite a few other places for that.
I’ll start. I am currently in a crude oil short position. I have been in and out of short positions all day, and approaching close of the week I decided to keep my current short. This is based on oil related news recently, and the fact that fundamentals (aka the war in the Middle East) is unlikely to bring good news over the weekend. I might be terribly wrong, the parties might decide enough is enough, but I feel the killing of two prominent players will prevent that. Morbid? Yes, but we are traders, not world politicians. We act on what is likely to push prices. (should probably be posted in a different room, but we’ll get there).
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I really like this sentences.
Discussing a strategy will easily get insulted by others. Most of them, wanna get in private. Probably there is way to make money by having a private “room”. Or it may also easier to manage small group to have a focused discussion.
I believe most of us will not share a proven trading method. So whoever share here mostly left to them who need confirmation or advice for something they have. That means the beginner and intermediate trader. 
I believe there will be someone in BP who willing to help, as long as someone willing to ask properly. 
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