Finally he is back, top trader Tom Strignano and now he joined forces with another forex guru Vladimir Ribakov.
Why I am so excited? I am indeed. Why?

Let me tell you why. You can be one of the following 3 people, if you are reading this post:
1) You are new to forex
2) You tried some robots, got disappointed or scammed, and realised that manual trading is the way to go
3) You know that robots do not work and want to learn how to trade property.

Now when I started in Forex Trading, I too got excited about robots even though (myself being software architect, I knew at the back of my mind that $99 robot can’t make you rich) I believed that at least I can pay at least the bills. I got disappointed many times, requested refunds every time, shattering my dreams at the same time.
Way too soon, I realised that making money in the markets is not that easy! That’s the reality indeed. I believed all the hype about trading systems and the way they were marketed by scrupulous internet marketers. I also bought $2000 learning course with 3 systems marketed to be profitable systems, again the systems failed.

In the meantime, I kept learning more and more and the more I learnt, the more I realised that it is possible to make money in the market if you have the following 3 things in place:
1) A box of successful trading strategies, profitable in the long run
2) Effective Money Management Technique
3) The correct mindset to trade – you should be able to control your emotions as regards to fear and greed and of course be disciplined (point 2)!
Experience and feel of the market do come into play, but the above are imperative.
I lacked skill. At that time I always thought that I need one profitable trading system and just apply it! I was deadly wrong. I was not able to interpret what the chart was telling me, so I was just applying my trading system blindly and hope that it goes in favour of me.

Luckily then, I came to know about Tom Strignano Signal Service (the old service) and that changed completely my way of trading – the blind way of trading.

Here is the way to look at a trade:
Once you identify an entry point for your trading system, first thing to do is to find a good point to place your stop loss. Too tight to your entry point, you may be stopped out soon. Too far away means you are risking a lot. So you need to find older resistance support / resistance lines, or just below / above trend lines, pivot points or TRN levels (more on these later). Furthermore I need to have a feasible risk to reward ratio. I will risk 30 pips to potentially earn 30, 60 or 90. There are many systems with 75 pips stop loss to earn 10 or 20 pips! Complete none sense.

After that, depending on our stop loss, we need to calculate the appropriate trading lot size (money management!) and then we need to find exit points. When are we going to exit the trade? Mind you, a profit of 10 pips when the trade went up by another 50 pips, that’s also lost money since you could have gained at least another 30-40 pips. So when are we going to exit? Again we try and go near support / resistance lines, or trend lines, pivot points or TRN levels or a head take has formed near a resistance points. Recommended approach is to have at least 1 profit target, once you reached that you close half of your position and then apply a trailing stop and let profit s run! This is where you make the real money!

If you are not understanding anything of the above, apologies, but that’s the real trading guys. Forget the bullshit you read outside – you may argue that this is also bullshit, but this is real trading. This is what top gurus and successful traders use day in day out to make money every day in the markets (if the market moves!).

I learnt the above and much more simply from Tom Strignano.

Something else, forex is a game of numbers and you have different levels of players. Some people think that the currency pair will go up, while at the same time, others will think that the market will go down. So money is exchanged and depending on the buying or selling pressure the market moves up or down. And who are the players? There are us with maybe $1000, $5000, $10000 accounts, then there are others with larger accounts (experienced successful traders) and of course there are the chief traders, large institutions, fund managers, brokers and banks!

Who moves the market up and down? Banks and there alleys! Do you think banks have a $1000 account? And these guys are after your money the end of the day! This is one way for them to make money! So you have two options – you either be an alley with the banks and their friends or be on your own with your little trading system borrowed from a friend, or from a forum trying to make some pips a day. Even worse with a robot! Where would you prefer to be? With the banks of course! But how can I become their alley? Simple – trade the way they trade! Yea – how? Join Strignano Vladimer signal service and learn how to trade like a pro, and be an alley with the banks during the daily war that happens every day in the forex market!

So again, why I am excited that Tom is again re launching his signal service?
1) I learnt a lot while I was a happy customer of his old signal service. I learnt how to look at the market from a different perspective – the way I explained briefly above – re read again if needs be! That’s how you can make money!
2) I learnt an amazing set of strategies to properly identify entry / exit points.
3) I learnt how to use Pivot Points – used by Banks and their alleys daily!
4) I learnt how NOT to use lagging indicators like MACD, Average True Range etc that tell me what happened in the past – I want to know the future – Pivot Points and TRNs! I want to know where the market is probably to turn around and not where it turned around! Why? So I know where to place my profit targets and I get more pips in my trade!
And lots more…

Notice that I only mentioned LEARN! There was twice a week webminars teaching you how to trade like a pro. I am not a pro, mind you, but I learnt a lot and lot. And eager to learn more – this is why I am so excited that it is going to open again.

So what about signals etc.? Tom Signals are great and profitable if you follow the rules by the letter. However you need to be flexible enough to change strategy if the market has changed in the mean time – you need to learn how to properly manage the trade! And you need to watch and manage the trade as it is developing. It is more of an intra day trading strategies based most of the time on trend line breakouts. So once a signal is out – you need to have the time and manage the trade because you will have 6 profit targets, stop loss and market exhaustion point. Looks complicated? Is not believe me. But you will also learn how to trade within channels, within trend lines and other amazing systems like the head take system, and the magic lines – TRNs!

TRNs
So ever wondered why the market was moving up fast – and for some reason it turned around? Most probably because it has hit a TRN level! These are propriety levels developed by Tom himself during his career and these levels are used by the banks and their alleys. Trust me-these are very very accurate. I saw trades where the price hits exactly the TRN level to the pip and turned around straight away. Most of the times, it hits the TRN, tries to break through the TRN, and turns again around. Or you will feel that the TRN is not going to hold hence the trend is going to continue hence you will trade against the TRN in this case. You will learn how to trade these powerful levels when you join the service. I only used to trade these TRNs while I was a member because with my full time job I can’t watch the market all the time. So I used to trade only TRNs and was very very very successful. This is why I am happy that Tom is re launching the service – my lovely TRNs are back!

So look how all this makes sense. If you have a trading strategy and at this point in time a trading setup has formed to go long (buy). If you know nothing of the above, you will just buy the currency blindly. BUT if you know All the above and you know how to read the charts, and how to look for resistance / support lines, how to draw proper trend lines, know where Pivot Points are (mind you, pivot points supplied by Tom part of the service are more accurate than the once you find for free on the internet), a head take has formed or you are close to the TRN, will you buy the currency? You will probably wait to see what will be the price action at any of the levels mentioned above. If the price is near the TRN, I will probably go short instead (sell) and if a Head Take has formed I WILL definitely go short while you are long! And then you wondered why a perfect trade setup has not worked out! I knew about the TRN Level – so I had this insider information since I am an alley of the banks and I am after your money. So become my alley too – join now!
From what I saw in the video, it seems Vladimir system is long term strategy and hence it is ideal for those people like me that do not have the time during the day to stay in front of the computer all day long. And this is a big plus too! He seems a nice guy too.

So you may ask -since I traded only TRNs I stopped trading? To be honest yes. First I was busy and couldn’t follow the market – and I am very stupid since Eur has really weakened since January! BUT the same principles I learnt from Tom, I have successfully applied them in the stock market and was very successful indeed – following major shares, not the penny shares just to be accurate like Apple, HSBC, Barclays and similar shares. The stock market moves so slow compared to forex market and gives me enough time to review the charts daily. But since now TRNs are back I will be back to the forex market!

Phew, this article came to long. I do recommend Strignano Vladimir. It looks even better now. BUT this is not a quick rich systems. You need to learn, you need to have the commitment to learn since trading is not easy as 99% of internet marketers claim to be. It is very hard and you need to be on their side. Being with Strignano and Vladimir puts you at edge over the other traders!

Trust me.

Hello, it been sometime since I posted two articles in few days So how our robots are doing? This week was a great week for Fap Turbo / Megadroid were we did a profit of $49.93 - although I traded 2 trade myself along with Megadroid and Fap Turbo.

Fap Turbo
This week was good week for Fap Turbo and the robot obeyed the rules I don’t remember closing any trades myself manually as I normally do if the trade has been open for some time and the current market time is over 11.30 pm - Since this is normally what I do to avoid devastation of my account by Fap Turbo. Hey the trade of $16.61 in profit, I did it not Fap Turbo since I noticed a typical chart pattern in the pair and traded along with Fap Turbo.

As can be seen on trade ticket 13097215, Fap Turbo closed a trade at 23.55. That trade opened and closed in few minutes since at that time I went to eat and the previous trade 13095074 was still open with minor profit, and I was going to close it on my return as explained above. It was well beyond 11.15. But as already been said in this blog, Fap Turbo doesn’t give a shit on timings since Fap Turbo should stop trading at 11.00pm. Thats why you need to monitor and baby sit the robot. Luckily these trades went well.

Megadroid
I am sorry for mentioning Megadroid in this blog, but this robot deserves respect. I had launched a specific blog for this robot back in April / May I was super busy at that time to blog the results. But as I said, this robot is extremely reliable and profitable.

This week we had 2 trades from Megadroid in Eur/Usd of course and a profit of $11.10 and $3.90. I normally trade along with the robot, but I have missed the first trade, but on the last day I made a profit of $7.70 while Megadroid did $3.90.

I will explain what I do in another post - that is how I trade along with Fap Turbo. To be honest I never messed with Megadroid settings - too lazy since I can easily modify the lots traded, but I am happy to open another trade at the right time.

Visit Megadroid Official Site here.

IVYBot
IVYBot did not started well but it is too early to judge. See IVYBot Review blog here.

I was asked this question recently by this blog visitor and to be honest, I couldn’t say ‘Yes is death’ or ‘No is alive!’

Let me tell you why I think Fap Turbo is death…
Fap Turbo released their new Fap Turbo robot this week. For me it means that poor people like me have been abandoned. So I think this robot will not anymore be updated and wish that I am wrong. I have not checked in the Fap Turbo forum to see what others are saying so I stand to be corrected and this is just my opinion.

Let me tell you why I think Fap Turbo is Alive and Kicking…
My account went up and down, and really went down to I believe 850$ from $992 deposit. It went up again to $920, $950, $980 back to $920 and all this cycle. In this process I was learning and maybe, just maybe I have figured out how to control this untamed beast – fap turbo. Now in just two weeks I have recovered over $120 and my account now stands at $1044.

Whether it went up because the market is stable and makes Fap Turbo happy or it went up because of the strict rules that I am adhering to control Fap Turbo, I can’t say. Honestly I can’t say. I still don’t have that much confidence yet and also I lost confidence in Megadroid people too. So whether I will keep trading or not, I don’t know.

Why I lost confidence in Megadroid
The robot is super accurate, trades very little but profitable. BUT I have received an email from Megadroid people with a super offer that if you buy Fap Turbo Pro from them they will give you a new version of Megadroid Pro for free which is yet to be released.

Although I understand that even competitors make joint venture I didn’t liked this email at all.

What are your views on this?

Hi, It has been sometime since I have posted my last post - as usual very busy, but Fap Turbo kept running and hopefully tonight the account becomes again break even - $988 initial deposit real money. The bank account right now is $969.67 - very close.

Anyway it was a bumpy ride so far, the account went in profit for around $200 sometime back in April but went down to $850 or something like that. It went down for many reasons, basically market instability, and the usual Fap Turbo problem of last trades left open and end up wiping your account etc, etc.

Apparently we have found a solution for the problem, but again, another problem popped up. Two weeks ago the account was close again for $980, but I had two trades that opened around 8pm and were left open - could not be closed. Eventually the pair drifted the opposite side and hit the stop loss for the trades - the account went again back to $900 great. I was very annoyed to say the least!.

Anyway I think I have found a solution for this, but I will post it later on, when the account reach $1150 If I ever make it to this milestone Hope I will.

When reaching this milestone I am not sure if I will continue trading - maybe I do, maybe I don’t. We will see…Although Fap Turbo at the end of the day does not waste me much time, I think I would prefer the money elsewhere…but we will see…:)

Why I am saying this, I got utterly annoyed by the fact that Fap Turbo Swiss whatever is called was released and they said it is as accurate as a Swiss Clock. This was sold for $600 and only available for certain type of clients and trades on a different trading platform. Basically you have to be rich!

Anyway, if they said that they now have a version of Fap Turbo as accurate as a swiss clock, why the hell they don’t IMPROVE the robot that other 40000 people - THEIR CLIENTS are using? At least why they don’t FIX the last trading problem? This problem exists even if others say that it does not exists, but it exists! It has wiped my profits 4 times and $100 - $150 twice

This is why I got utterly annoyed, because this is not the way to threat their current customers!

Although I am not posting frequently, FAP Turbo is still running and making some losses

Anyway the account has recovered although still with $50 loss but better than as it was before.

The point I want to make today are two:

1) Fap Turbo doesn’t give a shit (sorry for my language) on the start and ending times of trading. It only starts trading at 10.00 and doesn’t care on your settings. If someone can shed some light on this, will be greatly appreciate. Fap Turbo forum wasn’t helpful since my post was not approved.

2) Why it needs a babysitter? Since again it doesn’t give a shit on the ending time of the trades. From my experience and many others the last trades are most of the time always with a big loss. So when are the last trades? After 11pm - 12am.

So like a babysitter I need to monitor Fap Turbo and basically start closing charts after 12am.

Regarding this week trades, not much trades this week after a big loss of -$48 since kindly FAP Turbo traded after my specified timings last week.

Up for next time.

Hi guys,

This week is a disaster. So lets start…

Further to my previous post, I said that I switched off Fap Turbo and closed the trade manually. I was a happy man on Monday morning with +$110 profits. Later in the afternoon I logged in into my server to check some other things, and to my shock I saw the account $1001.XX. Then for some reason there was a trade during the day with a loss of $89!!!!!!!!!! What the fuck???? All profits again wiped out again.

To be honest I forgot if I have closed Metatrader and switched it on again, since it could be the case that Fap Turbo was still thinking of the open trade left open before. I don’t know what happened but is a disaster.

Anyway, not many trades has happened since Monday and only one was successful, the others were simply losses. Spread is 5 so is not a question of Pips.

Now the account stands again to around $1001 but thanks to Megadroid robot two successful trades.

Lets see tonight what is going to happen.

It has been a trend now that the last trades that Fap Turbo opens always results in a loss. Many times it results in a minor loss, sometimes eating the profits of the day. In just three cases it resulted in mini loss of around $50 and a disastrous loss of around $170.

This is a pity, since if we can eliminate such trades, the account definitly would have be around $1500, a tidy profit of $500.

Just last night, there was a trade (the last trade) EurChf that closed at a minor loss of -$2.96. This morning since I had to wake up early, the EurGbp trade was still open and manually closed the trade at a profit of $2.57. I have switched off Fap Turbo since normally what it does when a trade has been open for some time, it will try and close at a loss sometimes even of -$10 or more. But I noticed from the graph patterns that the trend is coming in favour to me, so I switched off Fap Turbo and closed the trade manually. But I rarely wake up early and find trades still open

Anyway, I am trying to figure out the problem, and in case I find a solution, of course I will post it here.

As per my last post, right now I am travelling a lot so posting and updates are a bit restricted. Anyway, this is a summary what what has happened so far, since we went live.

1) We went live at 24th March, 2009, with $1000 deposit

2) Broker is Alpari

3) All settings left as default, just reduced LRR to 5.0, scalper lots set to 0.1 - very conservative settings.

4) I have not traded all days, since there were 2 - 3 were market and Alpari were not stable.

5) Alpari changed servers and there is a problem of disconnectivity.  I don’t know if this problem was fixed lately.

6) FAP Turbo 3.7 was released.  Some people lost money on that day but for sure is not due to the robot.  On the same day Alpari changed servers, and market was very unstable.

7) I had GMT Settings set incorrectly since the daylight hour change, and Fap Turbo was not functioning correctly.

So far FAP Turbo has generated $115.89 profits.   See my next post for details.
Take care for now.

Even though I said that I won’t trade this week, yesterday FAP Turbo was on and trading.  The day went as follows:

We had 6 trades, 3 successful and 3 with minor losses.  Average profit was around $12.00 approx. 

Currently there are 2 main problems that made life difficult to Fap Turbo and me:

1) Alpari new servers are going crazy.   Metatrader is disconnecting frequently and this is an additional risk for our trades.  Although I noticed the problem I went on trading although today I read in the FAP Turbo forum that Alpari advised not to trade.  I have traded and came out with a profit.  Today is also disconnecting but not that frequently.  Just my luck, when I have decided to go live, Alpari changed servers and are not working that smooth!

2) I had GMT Offset incorrectly set.  So FAP Turbo managed to create some profits even though I have mistakenly set GMT Settings incorrect.  Since my server is in the UK I got mixed up in the settings where UK have changed their time to summer time last weekend.

Lets see today how it goes.  Take care for now.

Although Fap Turbo managed to do $11.22 profit in the short period on Thursday night (since on Friday it should not trade) I am a bit concerned since this week every Fap Turbo user is experiencing a common problem.

Many people lost money this week in the Eur/Gbp pair since apparently the last trade is being opened and not closed by Fap Turbo. What is basically happening is that the trend goes the other direction, so results in a loss. Many users hit their stop loss resulting in $110 approx loss. In my case I switched off Fap Turbo and hoped that the trend comes back and in fact I managed to close the trade in minor profit around 8hours later! I am lucky that I work in computers so I can access my server anytime of the day. This happened three times this week, Wednesday night and Thursday night and also Monday.

Noone has ever seen this behaviour before, including myself after 3 months of testing and there are many discussions in the FAP Turbo official forum about this matter. Some said to close the trading 1 hr before so the last wrong trade is not done by the robot, some said is becuase of the latest version of Fap Turbo, myself I don’t know. However it would be interesting that in this case, I open a trade against Fap Turbo and close Fap Turbo trade straight away, since I will easily make 50 - 80 pips.

Up for next week, I don’t think I will go live since I will be travelling to the US and I can’t monitor Fap Turbo especially during the 9hrs flight to Miami and also because of the above problem. I don’t know yet at what time FAP Turbo will be active - US Time, so anyway if it trades when I am available we will trade! Demo will be working anyway to see whether the above problem repeats itself.

Keep Tuned! If someone that lives in Florida can tell me at what time Fap Turbo is normally active, it will be greatly appreciated. Yes I can calculate with GMT etc etc but I am too lazy and I don’t trust myself in mathematics involving differen timezones!