Trading Heroes » Thoughts http://www.tradingheroes.com Forex Trading Blog Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:19:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Beware of the Green Fairy http://www.tradingheroes.com/beware-of-the-green-fairy http://www.tradingheroes.com/beware-of-the-green-fairy#comments Thu, 15 Jul 2010 03:50:16 +0000 Hugh http://www.tradingheroes.com/?p=3430 Green Fairies are scary.  I have put my trust in a few over the years and although I learned a lot of lessons, it has usually ended in heartache.

In the beginning, they are hard to resist.  The lure of their charms promise gorgeous sunrises and excite your imagination.  Their claims are fantastic and can be

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Sorry for the disorganization the past few days, but I moved this blog to another website host and I am still tying up loose ends. Moving over three years of posts, photos and files has proven to be a little more complicated that I thought.

My hope is that this change

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]]> http://www.tradingheroes.com/pardon-the-mess/feed 3 I Got Scammed http://www.tradingheroes.com/i-got-scammed http://www.tradingheroes.com/i-got-scammed#comments Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:11:52 +0000 Hugh http://www.tradingheroes.com/?p=3272 When I was brand new to trading, I bought a course that was the worst course I ever bought.  I don’t know where this guy got these strategies, but they flat out didn’t work.  In fact, he is not allowed to trade other people’s money or do any education courses ever again.

Since this was before

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]]> http://www.tradingheroes.com/i-got-scammed/feed 0 Death of the Accelerator Trade http://www.tradingheroes.com/death-of-the-accelerator-trade http://www.tradingheroes.com/death-of-the-accelerator-trade#comments Mon, 07 Jun 2010 23:56:53 +0000 Hugh http://www.tradingheroes.com/?p=3213 I have been trading the Accelerator Trade for a few months and I have officially decided to stop trading it.  My initial backtesting was done on more recent years data, going back to 2008.

Those results were really good.  I have since gone back to 2001 and also had the good fortune

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]]> http://www.tradingheroes.com/death-of-the-accelerator-trade/feed 2 My Favorite iPhone Case http://www.tradingheroes.com/my-favorite-iphone-case http://www.tradingheroes.com/my-favorite-iphone-case#comments Sat, 05 Jun 2010 01:15:35 +0000 Hugh http://www.tradingheroes.com/?p=3183 The iPhone is the only phone that I have owned that I have no complaints about.  Apple makes good stuff.  My next computer purchase will be an iPad or MacBook Pro.

I know that I mentioned here that I would never buy a Mac, but I have since found out that

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]]> http://www.tradingheroes.com/my-favorite-iphone-case/feed 1 Custom Metatrader Programming Review http://www.tradingheroes.com/custom-metatrader-programming-review http://www.tradingheroes.com/custom-metatrader-programming-review#comments Mon, 24 May 2010 23:32:56 +0000 Hugh http://www.tradingheroes.com/?p=3152 Recently, I had the desire to have a Metatrader indicator that sent an alert every time a currency pair hit today’s or yesterday’s S3 or R3 pivot point.  I know some programming, but I do not know the Metatrader programming language.

Therefore, instead of investing hundreds of hours on figuring out how to program an

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]]> http://www.tradingheroes.com/custom-metatrader-programming-review/feed 0 My Daily Pre-Trading Routine http://www.tradingheroes.com/my-daily-pre-trading-routine http://www.tradingheroes.com/my-daily-pre-trading-routine#comments Wed, 12 May 2010 09:06:44 +0000 Hugh http://www.tradingheroes.com/?p=3124 If there was one thing that I learned from playing sports, it was that pregame routines are important.  I used to wonder why we did the same thing over and over.  Can’t we mix it up a little?  Keep things interesting?

Well there was a reason for doing the same thing before every game.  It got

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Keeping accurate records of past trades is a key to becoming a better trader.   My trading records have undergone many versions but this latest method has been working for me for awhile so I thought I would share it.

At times, I strove to keep everything in electronic format.  At other times, I neglected to keep

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