I was 11 years old and my family had just (temporarily) relocated to Sicily.

Dejavue, 1995, thats some cycle

A 500 million sell limit order at 1.2780 won't move price anywhere, it will just stop price from going higher than 1.2780 until it's consumed or otherwise removed. It doesn't get filled from the bid, it doesn't consume liquidity, it waits to be ...

Volumes traded in the Euro?

First of all you probably trade in small enough size that you don't really affect available liquidity. Secondly if you trade with a retail dealer then you're not really taking up "the market's" liquidity, since the dealer can just offset your trade ...

When everybody is buying, Who is then Selling?

Price is not random. Price/the market is not a lifeform of its own with random properties - every time price moves it's because people or programs have consumed or removed or added liquidity. This is generally not done randomly but for specific ...

My feeling on price movements - they are random

As far as I'm aware, EBS pricing has less tick volume than ECNs or retail brokers. More tick volume could sometimes be more noise. Although, of course it is better to have pricing in fractional pips. image (Screen from soultrader)

Compression Project

Depends what you mean by TA testing software, but you can program your entry/exit rules and run a test on the data. I don't actually use it for that but I guess that's the main point of it. It's got all the popular indicators and stuff. You can also ...

Best Backtesting Software

Never heard of any of them except for MT4, but I have Forex Tester 2 and it's probably as good as anything. Although there are some bugs that make it slightly annoying to use at times, and it cannot use tick data properly but they should be fixing ...

Best Backtesting Software

Exactly. I'm of the opinion that if you want to last long term, you need to know why you're doing what you're doing. If a certain market pattern or characteristic is making you money, great. But if you don't know why it's working, you won't know why ...

There are no secret patterns and there will never be one

Not saying it is or isn't, but bear in mind that his trading on this forum was very different before he started this journal. See my post here and his reply: url Therefore the similarity might have been to the method he was using at the time and ...

Dice Man

Bleek now finds himself in Steve's position and only gives hints etc for the same reason... no mystery. I've learned stuff from both Steve and Bleek, they make you think rather than handing you answers.

Dice Man

What happened to the one lot you sold, is it still a floating loss while price is going up and you're buying these half lots? What if you buy and it goes down immediately without a chance to get out at break even? Why not buy another full lot ...

Mechanical trading idea

Well Oanda's feed starts several hours earlier than MT4 broker feeds, I'm assuming they start their feed when the first banks open somewhere in the world (late Sunday afternoon GMT) whereas the vast majority of others start their feeds in the Sydney ...

EURUSD, EURJPY, USDJPY 1H and 1MIN data

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Dice Man

To be sure a lot of them do, otherwise they would post more. Just look at all the very knowledgeable members who used to post and now no longer or rarely do. Not all due to this reason of course but some, sure, I know because they posted that very ...

Dice Man

I don't find it strange at all. To my mind, he started this journal and intended to post his method, then he started getting better results than expected and decided not to share it (plus others asked him not to). This is really to be expected, I ...

Dice Man

Isn't that martingaling? How about when you get a losing streak and keep increasing position size until your account is wiped?

There are no secret patterns and there will never be one

OP's definition of geek: "people... who work or work(ed) for IT department or in computer field".

Geeks and FX

Wow... I work for a software company and while there is one person here who sort of fits your description, most people here (including developers and testers etc) are normal people with normal lives and some are the complete opposite of what you ...

Geeks and FX

Excellent post.

There are no secret patterns and there will never be one

Why have you got the CFTC hypothetical results disclaimer?

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