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The forum has an option to ignore users but unfortunately it doesn't remove them from the grid. It just blanks their content creating a weird state where you still see the user but you can't see what they are posting. I created a small script that you can add to your browser with the TamperMonkey extension. This extension is very famous among IT fellows in order to remove users from their feeds. It is widely used on Facebook. Attention seekers are completely ignored after installing it. Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tampermonkey/dhdgffkkebhmkfjojejmpbldmpobfkfo?hl=en Opera extension: https://addons.opera.com/en-gb/extensions/details/tampermonkey-beta/ After the installation within the settings page you can install the script that will do the job. The script is at https://github.com/oneangrytrader/TamperMonkeyScripts/blob/master/IgRemoveToxicUser.js Save the content of that script to a local file and add it to the extension. Within the script there is a variable called users that you can edit to add the user you would like to remove. The result is below with a couple of pictures: All Users Filtered users

actually more people would contribute if they felt they could express an opinion without some ignorant little troll jumping up and down insulting and flaming them at every opportunity. The perpetual negativity in the face of any evidence to the contrary gets extremely tiresome and leads people to better trading forums where the moderators actually take an interest and stamp out blatant flaming.

TA is less about blindly adhering to some textbook chart formations and more about seeking context. Trading Composure @TradingComposure Charts do NOT predict prices. No form of TA predicts prices. Charts suggest the path of least resistance Charts provide a means to determine the risk of a trade Charts offer help in timing Charts offer POSSIBILITIES, not probabilities and certainly not certainties Peter Brandt @PeterLBrandt Finding and combing indicators to give entry signals with a positive expectancy for your preferred market and time frame takes experimentation and testing. The Trading Rush videos showed backtests of basic trading plans, below is more about building your own. https://nononsensetrader.com/how-to-backtest/

The Story of the Trolls. I joined this forum early 2016 and have contributed throughout the working day everyday whilst trading and was trading contentiously for years before that so I've seen a lot of trolls go through on this and other forums and I've noticed they all follow a similar pathway. It all starts with a cry for help, they're losing and can't turn it around. People try to help and show them that learning to trade is a process, both their development as a trader and the development of a successful trading plan. But that's no good, that means work and takes time, they didn't start gambling to do work, there must be an off/on switch somewhere, why won't anyone tell them where it is, why is everyone holding out on them, it's so unfair. So they spend some time pretending to work but make a game of it, just playing around really waiting for someone to take pity and tell where the switch is. No ones biting, getting angry now, new approach, start goading and insulting, force people to defend themselves and reveal where the switch is. Still not working. Make fake claims with no intention of providing any evidence but instead demand others provide evidence the claims are not true, also demand others provide evidence for claims they never made in the first place. Who can forget good ol' Oilfxpro who ended up demanding everyone produce a broker statement signed by an attorney. And poor ol' dmedin, been losing a grand a month for the last 15 months, not long to go now. But you will notice even after all that he's still not one for listening, he has a filter that just labels everything he doesn't like the sound of as just **** to be ignored. You'll also notice he's never short on giving others advice on trading, seriously. Gamblers don't survive gambling or trading, their only hope is to learn to discern the difference between the two.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO This is how I view Risk - If my account value is £x then the max per trade I'm prepared to lose is 2% of the £x - lets say the £x = £2,000 The the most I'm risking is £40 per trade I take (The £ value of this 2% changes as my account goes up or down) Then on the market I'm trading for ease, say Entry = 100p and I ascertain that my stop needs to be at 90p = 10p range of risk Then the £ per point is simply = £40 / 10p = £4 per point Read Dr Van Tharps - Trade your way to Financial Freedom - it explains the laws of probability and probabilistic returns - these laws CONTOL things when you trade, they cannot be avoided You need to build into your mind a mechanical emotionless setting everytime you trade - it should not matter whether you win or lose, the way I do this is I take the trade happy to take a loss Depends on your method too IF (and most traders don't know this) you know the exact stats of your method over many many trades then you could just trade a fixed £ risk amount and know that at some point it'll come good if you take a series of losses one after the other

I did. It led to catastrophe. Read my 2nd post on this site. If I could start again, I'd NEVER increase size as a reaction to a loss.

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👍 Peeps should only really be risking real money near the end of the process not right from the start, it doesn't matter then if the process takes years to complete as it will do for many.

Makes a lot of sense. That's how he funds his trading account which he constantly blows up We got you dmedin, we finally got you 😎

Back on topic.... Have you completely given up on technicals? The problem with fundamentals is the very long timescales. You spot a company in trouble, how long before the trade pays out? A long time, so that's a lot of capital tied up in a trade. I have tried fundamentals, based on some guidelines from the "Naked Trader". I think in a long slow bull market, this will make you some £$£, but I remember he was bullish cineworld. Covid really killed that trade! On a side note: What return do people aim for? I am thinking a steady 25-30% a year would be great. People seem to earn a lot more, but can they do it day in, day out, without blowing up an account? J

Guess that depends when you start with your 3-year-period I would expect something between roughly -30% and +30%. Then the problem is, where you get those £500 a month from? Don't tell me I have to get a job first in order to do that The goal should still be to make roughly 50% per month. 100k account, 50k profits. That's the gold discipline we're all aiming for

1) Because it works and more importantly 2) Because it annoys the hell out of you I get more satisfaction from #2 than I do from the money #1 creates

Your personality is very well defined in many articles. There is one big reason behind Facebook's usual way of creating a user in an online forum. People speak very differently when they can't hide behind a username. If you had to use your real name you wouldn't insult like that. You have shown yourself in many posts over the years, don't worry, we know who you are.

Cheer up Dmedin, it could get worse.. You could be shorting the Dow. Or voting for Trump. As for revenge trading, simply give it a miss, over trading same. Losing money is a fact when trading, just as making it is. Suicidal dispression? Never. Desperation? Methinks not. Believe in yourself, she'll be alright mate (as the kiwis say). Take a break and clear your mind. Walk or swim or just go somewhere conducive to relaxation. Give screens a miss, then come back, trust your instincts and rationale and knock some trades out of the park. Rage trading is bad for the body, soul and wallet. Don't forget to relax and take time for yourself.

Hi @CharlotteIG what has happened to the ability to download share trading history via CSV file. Without this it makes things extremely difficult to journal and keep records of trading activity.

Hi all, Do you set your stops/limits on trades and then let them play out? My only real issue with this is that i don't know if my stops/limits are in sensible places in the first place so there is a tendency to monitor it. What about waiting for a series of signals from tech indicators to close instead, again you've got to be disciplined and do it when said signals arise. Thanks,

I've already fended off the temptation to go straight back into live a couple of times, which is a big improvement. At least six months I would say. I'd like to see if I can grow the £5000 demo account to £10,000 first. I still have no idea what I'm doing, switching views, time frames, moving averages all the time. Not nearly ready for live yet

I will, thank you.

It was merely a question.... But thank you for painting a picture of the kind of person you are. So I will thank you from the bottom of my heart for saving me time..... the kind of time that shouldn't be wasted on people like you.... Kiss Kiss

Hi, just wanted to pop in and say hello. Im going to lurk for a few days and find my way around, but hope to get posting soon. Bye for now

Dax bounce up off S2 now looking to do the same off S1. H1 chart;

EWP does NOT work - They've been calling for a top and decline to near 0 since 1986!!!!! Certain things in EWP do work though and can be used to profit from the markets Again there's a massive myth about Fib Rets and Ext's - sometimes they work, often they don't, that in itself tells you something is amiss - but again they can be used to profit from the markets I would look at the 50% ret level which is not a fib level, its a gann level - Hence why the market came to a smack bang stop around that level in the 1960's, 70's, 2003 and 2009 If all you ever did was trade Elliott Wave 2's which are in fact Gann's Secondary reactions (gann wrote about them 1st) you do rather well

As our very old friend WD Gann said "4th Time at a level and it often goes through" Same with the FTSE100 Index yesterday - bingo

This is the key for me. It doesn't matter if you have more losers than winners, what really matters is how you manage your risk.

So i guess the answer is no you don't adjust bet size to account for losers. Good to know thanks. Quite astonishing that anyone makes any money out of this game, hats off to you.

Isn't this the old roulette "strategy" where you bet on red or black. Bet $1, lose $1. Bet $2, lose $2. Total Loss: $3 Bet $4, lose $4. Total Loss: $7 .... Bet $256, Lose $256. Total Loss: $511 Bet $512. Win $512. Total Win: $1 Works 100%, except when it doesn't and red comes out 50 times in a row, whilst you are on black

I just noticed this too. Please keep us updated. Thanks.

I think you assume we all sit watching this thread 24/7 - I certainly don't and that we've been with IG for years I joined IG in April 2020 - my main accounts are elsewhere with various other providers mainly in SIPP/ISA accounts I know EXACTLY where you're coming from, 95% of retail traders fail, 95% of all traders fail, the 5% that make it are no longer retail traders they become professional traders in their own right and I don't mean the monkeys that work for the banks - I mean people living and trading off their own funds Right let's do it - lets make it 20% a year What market(s) are we trading? Aim is 20% Rules are - As soon as we're UP 20% on the account we stop trading, if this happens before 31st Dec then we just STOP until 1st Jan the following year and then restart again until we make 20% then we stop, restart, stop etc What account account size? are we using to determine risk etc and how much are we risking per trade? - I would recommend 2% I'll determine the rest of the rules - We'll be trading off DAILY charts to make it even more harder to achieve and rather than flood the thread with "Trade setting up here - then it fails to trigger" I'll post the chart once the trade is OPEN/LIVE and on that chart we'll have all the rules applicable to that "live" position - This will also mean that people don't blindly follow Now for the rest of this week I'm heading to the Lake District, so I won't be constantly monitoring this thread, nor will I be trading. As we are nearing end of Oct and 10 full months of the trading year have expired, should we say that from now until 31st Dec 2021 we need to return 23.32%?

On Friday Aussie Broadband was listed on the ASX under ASX: ABB. I was part of the customer offer but I wanted to invest more than the 2,000 shares the customer offer was limited too. I'm not able to find it listed in IG and was curious as to why, maybe I'm just missing something about how IG works or I just need to be more patient. It did open a week earlier than expected so maybe that has coursed some confusion?

The markets love stimulus. Talk of stimulus is stimulating. It excites the markets, brings them up, perks them up, they rise like a spring tide with even the idea of stimulating stimulus. Oohh stimulus is soo exciting I know markets will rise. The markets are saying " give it to me", Congress is saying "I've got it, You want it? Yes, you know you do" Predicament Trump says "I gonna give it to you and it's going to be real big!" Jerome says, watching on, " Go on give it them " .. coy Mitch says "ooh you want too much but I'm gonna give it to you"...And so the markets rise with even the mention of the word Stimulus. The markets foment and rise in anticipation....and promises are made...and the markets rise. And rise. Until investors realise (too late) that they have bid the market up so high that it's suddenly over valued and overbought! Again. Reminds me of particularly unsuccessful nights in my youth when finding an attractive, potential partner and flirting and hoping, but at the end of the evening wholly and completely failing to get laid. Such is the Mitch, Nancy and Donny love in. Perish the thought, it's enough to put one off one's breakfast. Even if they did get it on now and sign a deal, it would be like a **** of shame, a liason of ludity, a sham shameful **** that all parties come to regret. "We did it for the union" even if the very idea of unity is anathema to them. I fear they have missed their opportunity for stimulating stimulus. No big bribes for Thanksgiving, for black Friday, for the election. Maybe a bit more talk, but sooner or later the markets and electorate know they are not going to get lucky any time soon. After the election maybe, which may not be as straightforward as appears now, with perhaps a split senate and an uncertain result, as there is no way Teflon Don will be going easy into the night (even if he has lost by 6 million votes). Maybe it's better to dream of stimulus and politicians doing the right thing for their electorate..... I did say dream....

His buddy DSchenk is doing the hard work with some examples and proper analysis. I hope he is making notes there.

For me multiple time frame analysis is more of a solid approach than hopping from one “indicator” to another. I am most profitable scaling in and out of a swing trade.

Yes, those guys Anton Kreil and his gang are great. All ex-pro trades at Goldman's etc They are doing 80% fundamentals, 20% technical trading style if I'm not mistaken. Everyone who says they are a scam just doesn't understand anything about the industry. Period. They are indeed one of main the reason, I'm thinking of trying the fundamental based trading system rather than looking 100% at technicals.

Look at IG's 'Trade of the week' to see how often IG's two 'technical analyst' experts get it right That's what you want. You want to be a technical analyst because you can do amazing charts and with the power of hindsight make yourself appear very credible, and TA is very seductive to technical- and visually-orientated people. You can make a good living pitching your 'analysis' to high net-worth clients, who will be risking their own money. Which you would never risk yourself on your own trades because you know that TA is next to useless

When was it ever not thus? They are holding cash as they sense the next down turn and realise equity is too risky. So holding 20- 30% in cash makes sense in tumultuous times. Also, how can you tax it if it is constantly on the move? Obscenely wealthy companies, individuals and families do not like paying tax as they fundamentally distrust govt (comes from bribing so many of them, I suppose). Also, holding cash means that when bargains come along, the money is there to put a down a deposit, leaving one free to borrow the rest at just over zero% interest. Win win. Nice work if you can get it.

Which of the typical trading experiences do you love the most? Expound thereon, prithee. 1) Losing money 2) Feeling of desperation 3) Revenge trading/overtrading 4) Crashing into suicidal depression 5) Staring down the barrel of the gun

Nobody cares, Tom. People come here to learn about trading. The vast majority of people who come here would love to see examples of others who have managed to overcome difficulties and 'trade successfully, consistently'. Have you ever been able to do this?

Stop spamming this board with your non-trading related propaganda, Tom.

THIS! This is the point

To be fair to him - I went through a really bad period in the 2000's where everything I looked at turned out to be utter **** - my personality is that of precision, exactness etc and it took a lot of years to overcome this with markets being as they are and I did rather rudely challenge people claiming this and that - so I can see where he's coming from That being said there's no excuse for some of his posts and comments

Nasdaq on fire again, ATH beckoning......while the others are taking a rest

I can talk about China, I am not sure about the rest of Asia. A VPN is very random as you say depending on where you are. It is mainly because of the DNS providers that are pretty slow resolving connections. I normally setup a VPS and connect to it remotely via RDP, that way I connect via IP addresses and don't need to resolve any hostname. You can setup a VPS on Amazon for about 20 quid a month and will bypass any issues you have there.

Clearyl you don't know what you are doing in the markets, one suggestion is to read the Disciplined Trader and Market Wizards, it has helped me out quite a bit.

We all loose money and we don't go crying around like babies. Post your history from this week, that will be useful for some. Maybe they can learn from your mistakes.

You forgot to add a 6th option: 6) Looking for attention from other traders with sh*t posts

100% this is the correct thing to do, I applaud the FCA's decision on this one. It's worse than gambling. Stories all over the internet where people are ruined because of it. Digital Currency is not the same as Bitcoin, there is a heck of a lot of work to be done and don't expect it to be the "norm" for 20 - 30 years yet. Also, that is backed by a country the same way we have legit currencies, infact little would really change it's just the method of transfer between banks and countries. It makes sense. The old methods like BACS, SWIFT etc are showing their age now. It makes sense they need to do a feasibility study for it. Bitcoin is just rife with scammers, hucksters, fraudsters, look at all these fly by night exchanges that get hacked because they are rushing to market. Also, a VPN won't help you here. The accounts will be placed on whatever registered address you have on the account. i.e I assume you are domiciled in the UK.

Yea i also have this question. it does now show you th time stamp fo when the data was last refreshed, but sometimes it can be 5-6hrs in lag, which isnt great. Would love to have a refresh on load function, or a manual 'click to refresh' option to pull the data through right up to date.

A backtest is never going to give you a final algorithm with one run. You are defining there one run in your text. You need a least a thousand runs with multiple parameters. Even if you change the MA range values that would be considered one run, because you are changing one parameter. Different runs have different input parameters. If you have time, read about how genetic algorithms work. They start being the silliest form of live and they evolve into a very complex entity by asking questions to themselves. The very same way a human being would learn through experience. First you need to define your input and output parameters and make permutations between them. Let's say your population is 10 markets and your input parameter is an MA to enter. Like you said. From those 10 markets you can create multiple parameters: - Time related: Start Date, End Date, candle time frames - Price action related: High, Low, Open, Close, Volumes - Account related: PnLs, Margins, Required Funds - Indicator related: Value of the MA, Crossovers with price actions - Exit related: Stops, Trailing levels, Take profit levels Once you've got those set up you can change their values multiple times and compare the results. Your outputs will give you a report that you have to analyse. From that report you will see which markets are more likely to give you better results for your technique and then you select the best of them. You are basically selecting the best individual from a population, very much like a genetic algorithm would do. Then continue adding more parameters to those markets that won the selection. Eventually after multiple runs you will see the performance of your technique and if it is worth using it, then you can try it on the demo account just to see if when you are involved as a person you can get the same results. A person is likely to decrease the performance of the algorithm.

That would indicate that 24% do 🙂 Admittedly the odds are stacked against us.