Nice Lot Sizes there! WOW! I hope I got better treatment - GFT was highly regarded by alot of traders Merlin and Maxey included. But when I started trading 2-4 lots, they decided to trade against me. Merlin, Maxey, I wonder how GFT treated you all ...

news trading broker warning

I have an Entry at 1.1120, it was filled at 1.1140 1 minute after the news when clearly the move was going down! 20 PIPS SLIPPAGE is totally stupid! Their Excuse, "the price GAPPED"! So I showed them a tick chart - their tick chart and clearly, ...

Canada Employment Report

Was that InterbankFX?

news trading broker warning

smoking baby, if you dont want straddle, why not hedge and place stops seconds before the news??? Seeing that OANDA widens spread minutes away from the news, hedge hours ahead. hedge may require 2x of the normal spreads, but that surely is not more ...

Canada Employment Report

My post ahead was not a personal attack. I personally dont even understand what those chartists are saying with their charts.. Honestly as you already pointed, if those indicators work, then Brokers should hate TA Traders more than they hate News ...

Predicting direction of economic releases

7265??? Nope. Both NF and GFT were identical on my side... Who is your broker?

AUD Trade Balance

I missed placing SELL Market when it hit 0.7590s... It was too fast!

AUD Trade Balance

Crestwind, Who is your current broker? BTW. There is strong Resistance around 0.7600. Expect it wont go up higher than this one..

AUD Trade Balance

I personally TOTALLY agree. We have never a shortage of Indicators. Not to go offensive against you, but some people CAN understand those lines. I myself, being an old school programmer, can understand numeric machine codes back in my younger days. ...

Predicting direction of economic releases

I based my Aggressive Straddle Distance on 8 historic charts (Jan-Aug). Only February produced a "double tail" (a Candle Stick with an up and down tail suggesting confused reaction to a news). All of the other 7 charts produced clean single ...

Canada Employment Report

I no longer have FXCM. My main account is GFT followed by NorthFinance (as I like MT4). Not totally satisfied with GFT. And honestly very dissapointed that they have slippage on minor AUD news like yesterday's when with FXCM, I can do so with no ...

AUD Trade Balance

Past charts show that its very dangerous to trade this piece of news. Last month, AUD trade balance improved dramatically and yet, AUD weakened! If you cant resists, this piece of news does not produce far more than 15 pips of move therefore, ...

AUD Trade Balance

Nice charting Skill! I am still doing coin toss. Yesterday, coin told me to go long on GBPUSD at 18910 - closed at 1895 Today coin told me to go long again at 1.87 closed at 1.8950 However, coin also told me to go long at 1.8800 but it dipped down ...

The real reason for Cable's move from 1.9040-->1.8710&lower

BoE is not prolific in increasing their rates as much as Bernanke does. Expectation is no rate hike. you can straddle it if you want to - just in case they shot each other.

Sep 7 : BoE Rate Decision

My NF straddle closed with -10. GFT account is still in the trade but -6.. Darn. Bad day... perhaps later we can get back with CAD employment

AUD Employment Numbers SEP 7, 1:30GMT

GFT entered my 0.7673 Entry at 0.7680! darn!

AUD Employment Numbers SEP 7, 1:30GMT

Heads up... News in less than 10 minutes!!!!!!

AUD Employment Numbers SEP 7, 1:30GMT

I personally would like to see the FF's Calendar to include a "search" function so that I dont need to browse through a whole month's data just to find "AUD Employment".... Sometimes, its very difficult to find a piece of news taking way too much ...

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