A few things I would be concerned with while looking at the TE you posted a link to, and I'm sure other TE experts could identify other bad statistics. For one thing, anytime I've worked with a strategy where the equity curve looked perfectly ...

Minimum Balance to Trade Full time?

Who has between 500K and 1M to put into a live account?! I only have 500 bucks, but what I do have is a killer strategy. My EA, your account =

Minimum Balance to Trade Full time?

It's often the case that there is good volatility even with or without unscheduled news and sentiments. So why not develop a strategy that is always on the lookout? This way, it will be a "catch all."

Trading news and sentiment

I'm not struggling with news. I've developed a strategy independent of whether or not there are high-impact releases.

Trading news and sentiment

Your account size makes my mouth water. You're a lucky man to have a large account combined with a good system. I myself have a better than good system, an outstanding system but even though I've got the table set up with the plate, steak knife, ...

Pro traders who do not use SL, What about Black Swans?

I don't avoid it, not at all. But you have to use a strategy independent of news, it would have to be compatible since there are releases almost daily.

Trading news and sentiment

Once you develop a system, you will know the answer. For most retail traders and most systems, I think 50K would be the number at which they would be willing to quit their day jobs.

Minimum Balance to Trade Full time?

It's good to see a thread like this but I've never been able to make sense of it to reliably give me intraday bias from sentiment or a high-impact red factory. For me, a red factory = a puzzle factory.

Trading news and sentiment

It depends on a lot of things but the simple answer is, it depends on your system: If your system generates proportionally higher return than drawdown, you would need less equity. If your system generates proportionally less return than drawdown, ...

Minimum Balance to Trade Full time?

I wouldn't even touch any CHF pairs before, the Swiss defend their currency like no other, like it's war. It just depends on your strategy and you just have to backtest and see if yours is compatible with such moves. My strategies weren't before but ...

Pro traders who do not use SL, What about Black Swans?

Yeah but if you let that logic stop you then you would never start anything because you could argue that everything eventually stops working. For example, your body eventually dies. Does that mean you shouldn't try to live in the meantime?

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Well thanks for that magne999. Right now the difference between the live and the demo is, I use a very small takeprofit on the live to be conservative whereas on the demo I'm letting the trades run with no takeprofit. But from what I'm seeing, ...

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I believe for Global Prime it is 500 open trades and pending orders combined.

Do brokers set a max open trades limit?

Trading if you have a directional bias, whether it's a full-on trend or not, is of course great (if) you can reliably determine trend bias for at least 1 pair, each and very single day for intraday trading. If you want to be right each and every day ...

Trend Trading

What good is a stoploss if it's not honored by the broker during such events? I remember reading posts from a few people complaining that their stoploss was ignored during such events and their accounts blew up. You pretty much have to be a ...

Pro traders who do not use SL, What about Black Swans?

Not only don't use a stoploss, try your strategy with no takeprofit either. I'm personally seeing a benefit to this as I'm placing the same trades on live and demo, but unlike the live, I'm using no takeprofit on the demo and, I like it so far. So ...

Pro traders who do not use SL, What about Black Swans?

It would also be good to mention the suggested usage of the indicators.

TOP 100 best indicators: post good indicators here

Are you meaning 10:00 GMT+0? London session is 11:00 GMT+3

CCFp weekly signals (set and forget basket trading)

I think in general, most traders don't win because of not having an adequate account size for most strategies, something like 50K to 100K. It's extremely difficult to make it work with a tiny account size like $500 for example.

8 Years Later - Still Not Winning

It's the same entries on both the live and demo but on the demo, I'm letting the trades run all day. The trading is intraday so if the same results continue like that each day for a couple of weeks, I'll be very encouraged to do away with the take ...

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