I agree to a point. News makes volatility, so I don't understand why people don't want to trade during those times. However, given the way brokers now work and the sheer craziness of some news events, I try to get positioned before they happen. If I ...

NEWS Trading or TECHNICAL Trading?

Ok, thanks for answering.

Advise and Guidance for a NEW FOREX guy

Hey Moody, When I come to FF, I always look at active threads, then chose a few to look at based on the title. Today you have responded to a shitload of messages that are old, some as much as 5 years old. This behavior has always baffled me. Why do ...

Advise and Guidance for a NEW FOREX guy

You guys are making a mountain out of a molehill concering the charts of Oanda. Why in the world do you think you can't trade longer time frames with Oanda simply because their charts don't support those frames? You are all suffering from a serious ...

OANDA Discussion

I just finished reading "The Decisive Moment" by Jonah Lehrer. I strongly recommend it. In it he talks of a study that was done on some bank traders who were doing very short term trades and pushing 100's of millions around. As a group they were ...

Towards the making of rational forex traders....

I work here. They give you a permanent residence visa when you're legally employed here. The visa is good as long as you're working, as your employer is your sponsor. If you lose your job, you have a certain amount of time to get another job and ...

Venture Capital?

As a client, you have to determine that. Traders have their own "uncle" points, both as part of a trading system, and as part of their psychological make-up. The only guarantee any manager can give a client is that he will stop trading your account ...

The pitfalls of money management

Sure it does. I've been a permanent resident of the UAE for over a decade. All US citizens have an exemption on taxes up to a certain point. Last year it was 90k, so you don't pay any tax on that. You may have to pay taxes in the country you reside ...

Venture Capital?

Nah, that's not true. But you talk a lot without saying much, but so do most people. Welcome to the herd.

Venture Capital?

Well, I'm interested in hearing it. I'd say there are a few people on these boards who would listen with an open mind. Bring it on, please.

The Winning Trading Psychology - sure way for consistent profits

I know a guy who also swears by it. url

The Winning Trading Psychology - sure way for consistent profits

Get another friend.

Price Action (Candlestick,Fibonacci,pitchfork,S/R,Trading Range,sto)

I find it hard to believe. I think it's a book-keeping issue. As we know, they pay interest. If you don't trade for a month, your account will grow due to interest. Until they reveal their precise methods for determining those numbers, we have to ...

OANDA Discussion

Takisd, what does this mean exactly? "A new broker is coming to Australia to set the pace of the regulated FX World."

the truth about my broker's customer service

I've seen it happen when I wasn't in a trade.

OANDA Discussion

Unbelievable. I haven't lived in the states in 13 years and it'll be another 13 before I do. It's embarassing because the US is no better than most tin-pot dictatorships. No, I take that back, I've been living in a benevolent dictatorship for 11 ...

New Mortage crisis in the making?

You guys are talking about Equity Models. Here's something I wrote a long time ago, and it's based on what I learned from Van Tharp. Any mistakes are mine and not Van Tharp's. Measuring your capital. There are three Equity Models you can choose from ...

Money Management

Oanda tends to be very unresponsive to their clients. The best way to show your dissatisfaction is to vote with your feet.

OANDA Discussion

Some of you guys take yourself way too seriously. If you actually read the OP's post you'd have seen he writes "I have a good system in 4 h but the signal for go buy or sell not all the time is the best. I need a triguer that most of the times gave ...

Looking for a 4h profit signal

Trading is like the old time treatment for venereal disease for men. A doctor would take a tool, quite similar to cleaning rod used for guns, and clean out your penis. It really, really hurts.

Trading is like ...