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??? Can anyone explain this @JamesIG Live Trading Deutche Bank. Shorting. Profit around +£80, then the screen froze (no movement, not able to Close) and on the ticket it said: 'If you want to trade this market call this number'.. So i did to get IG Support who had No Idea what i was talking about. They can't get thru to the Desk? Technical have no issues to report???? Luckily the page unfroze half way thru the call, but then it had reversed and I managed to get out with £27 profit. This can't happen.

Actually i'll start a new thread. This can't happen again!

WTF??? Can anyone explain this @JamesIG Live Trading Deutche Bank. Shorting. Profit around +£80, then the screen froze (no movement, not able to Close) and on the ticket it said: 'If you want to trade this market call this number'.. So i did to get IG Support who had No Idea what i was talking about. They can't get thru to the Desk? Technical have no issues to report???? Luckily the page unfroze half way thru the call, but then it had reversed and I managed to get out with £27 profit.

Those losses are accumulated @Caseynotes not in one go. The wins are in one go. First loss was £40 and £45. The 1st £40 was my mistake as i didn't adjust my Stop. 2nd was actually Fail I let it go too far. The £110 loss was actually 3 losses in succession. How are you doing @gavguns?

Figured that out after I posted ha. Oh well, early finish here too then.

I experience this quite a lot. I thought it was normal. However, again today, and more precisely Now, most of the US is Unavailable.

I thought I did. decided on Volatility and Go with the Trend. Gold been on a Downtrend. Caught about £100 worth going short. Tried to carry it on, but it just kept going the other way, despite it still going down. Then missed the spike at 3pm ish, even though I was waiting for it. Decided not to Jump on it. Missed out of £175 on the up. Then thought I'd get it on the way down again. Kept my Stops too tight thinking it was going to drop. Turned out to be more of a consolidation, till i finally got about £35 back at the end. I'll crack this. Just getting used to losing for Real. Once the sweat is dried from my eyes, I'll be back on it with Zero Fear. Overall down £200 today making £100 of it back. Down £100 yesterday with £50 back last night.

There's a thread going titles, Is Spread Betting for Fools. Check it out. You'll see all my Fails since going Live. It's a different Beast All together :( Down another £200 on Gold today.

@Caseynotes I'm certainly going to start my Education again from scratch. Hypocritically i think i know what I'm doing; Wrong! Made several tiny wins on this already. What do you all see here. it's 12.08 am.

I would call, 'Every trend Ever' a pretty decent statistic. So the odds are good then haha. If you'd be so kind to direct me to info of what I'm actually seeing, that'd be great; Candle Stick wise.

Any Statistics for the Cons? Percentage wise?

Clearly. I'm still trying to beat the Reversal............Not sure where I picked that habit up from. Obviously simple Fomo. I need a fresh education.

Clearly Failing............ Over £60 down over 2 days with a £550 account limit. Staggering losses. I said this back in March, but Live, I'm consistently right, in getting it wrong. If anyone can point out what I must be reading, doing, guessing correctly each time, I can reverse this. I'll go back to the Demo tomorrow with the Same account size and see what I can achieve. I don't think it was fear today. Maybe just distracted and made bad choices.

I have clearly lost any kind of ability I had on the Demo regardless of FEAR. 4 trades. All wrong way. This made me lol. No doubt to some of you, some very obvious reasons for me failing. I'd love to hear them. Reading from left to right. Short, then Stopped out, Short then stopped out, (OK, I've got it wrong) Long, then Reversed.....Looks like the drop is coming and about to be stopped out 3rd time. ****

I seem to have a recurring issue where whatever is posted above only shows as a square with a black top and bottom.

lol

Is it safe to assume that ALL Broker Retail Platforms Don't include a dedicated Filter? Is it widely understood that in order to Trade effectively, you will also need a Screener, not necessarily provided by your Broker? I think I need to go back to the start for a pre-requisite checklist of Tools and News functions. I've attacked this entirely in the wrong way. Im disappointed in myself that I've been going since February and still not figured this out. Is it rude of me to ask you @Caseynotes what you are using? Do you work for IG?

I'm confused @Caseynotes Is PRT a 3rd party platform, where IG is simply the Broker?

IG seems very limited in regard to these issues. I'm currently researching other brokers. The limitation of research tools and Filtering of the Instruments is also an issue.

Hi, sorry, struggling to find any definitive info on this. I can no longer tolerate the the search frustration to find suitable instruments using the Retail Platform. What are the main advantages of ProRealTime over the Retail Platform? Does it have a screener to search for Price Range, Gappers etc.? Thanks.

Yeah, it was a slow process for me. I obviously placed my Stops at the Obvious places with not enough room to stay out of reach of the Hunters. But In hindsight it was always my problem as we've discussed; Anticipating the Breakout or Reversal, Instead of making sure and placing afterwards. This meant my Stop were always further away than I wanted so the Risk Reward was large. Only £600 down. Lesson learned on that one. Is anyone watching RPS Group? I've only noticed it at 12pm

Hunting Stops. Yeah, I've witnessed that a few times There's my first -£200 back in march lol.

I'll check em out.but to be honest...........I win a lot....On the Demo

support resistance. Got it

I see.....Reversal? Change of direction? My knowledge is literally Candles up and down lol. But maybe you have revealed something in my strategy that i was or wasn't aware of. Yes, i always look for these turns either up or down. I always anticipate it. Yes, you're right, this is why I have a tight Stop Loss at the Top or Bottom of the' Reversal'. Makes sense even to me now. I'm not a Trend Follower. I literally look for opportunities for Reversals. Now I know what it's called S/R zones?? Don't know lol :O But like I've proven on the Demo (Fear aside) I can make this work, very easily, 80% of the time. What I can't do is handle the real world potential for huge losses. hence, smaller account size. I'll keep going. still got the Academy to get thru.