Archive for tag: scalping

October 2008 Review

13 November, 2008 (17:10) | Journal | By: Colin McGinley

October was the first month since May 2006 that I did not place any live trades.
Looking back at my performance this year it is pretty obvious that I don’t really have any consistency going for me. There have been up months and down months; the downs have generally been bigger and it’s not [...]

Scalping in lion country

1 October, 2008 (14:19) | Journal | By: Colin McGinley

Since I have been investigating forex scalping for the past few weeks one thought that has entered my mind more than once is: what sort of trading method would you end up with if you tried to combine aspects of scalping with the 4×1 trading methodology that I had used for so long?
In many ways [...]

Trading the rainbow

16 September, 2008 (15:37) | Journal | By: Colin McGinley

I occasionally listen to Rob Booker’s Trader Radio broadcasts. A couple of months ago, Josh, one of the regular contributors and a trader who works in the same office as Rob stated that he traded off 5 second charts. I thought he was completely nuts.
The only other snippet I remember from the exchange [...]