I was away when the UK news came out. I would have traded it but dont know if I would be caught by the false spike 1 minute before the news. The news move GBPUSD 40 pips down.

Retail & Euro CPI

Have you visited CFTC website? Check the financial data. Their capitalization was over 1M last January and is not less than 2K in June?

broker slipage

Gold Bull is still not safe. Oil price is going down with it Gold price as well. Though I like to see a strong gold bull, the situations suggests bearish divergence. Beware of strong spikes either way. I had closed part of my Bull positions. BTW. ...

Gold Discussion

HI dellano, How much stop loss pips do you need anyways? more than 10? 20 perhaps? In straddle, the smaller the risk - the better. The principle of Straddling is the assumption that the price will soar in one direction hopefully, pass your entry ...

Straddle trading EA

CoesFX? I heard they are in a law suit? Someone is suing them.

broker slipage

Straddle EA by Branac and Amazing EA by TimeFreedom are two different EAs. Make sure to have your EA active for live trading - I missed the PPI yesterday because I forgot to enable that. Likewise, there is a bug with Branac's EA, for some wierd ...

Straddle trading EA

Peter, the UK BoE created a minor spike - no straddle strategy can make you win in that case unless of course you set your PL to just 2 pips. Loosing 15 pips is minimal compared to other people loosing 20s.. But you should know that you should set ...

Straddle trading EA

BUMP! You need to add "North Finance" into the list. Which of the above MT4 is the better platform for trading news? Criteria: 1. Fast execution - dont need to wait 5 minutes to gain control of orders 2. No to minimal Slippage 3. fast fill

other servers for MT4?

Gold has tried to dip below 625 several times this week. I personally am Gold Bull and had bought it at 626 last week/monday. Was scared that I did not put any stops when it dipped down to 622... Oh well.. Its bullish right now and am back in the ...

Gold Discussion

MM, Is this "premium" the only problem you have with FXSol? What about speed of transaction? Do you have to wait minutes for your orders to show up? It took 3 minutes yesterday (PPI) for FXCM to get my order filled and let me control it - something ...

Feelings about CPI

How fast was your order filled? I have an entry order for GBPUSD with NorthFinance. for many seconds (perhaps a minute), my order was kept in pending... later it dissappeared - I was confused - was it removed/deleted by the deal desk? I looked at ...

Feelings about CPI

Its 5 mins. Yesterday, they did not anticipate "volatility" and I was free to adjust my entries to within 10 pips. Today, GBPUSD kept rising, I naturally kept adjusting it (to prevent false spikes). It was getting too hot to handle and I adjusted it ...

Feelings about CPI

Seems that there is still some UK terror plots lingering over at UK as broadcasted from CNN.

UK Terror

FXCM LOCK OUT!!!! Good thing, I have an order at NorthFinance that was filled +30 pips win ($600)! If trading with FXCM, make sure you have your entry order 5 minutes before the news. Cut off is 5 minutes and I forgot that...!

Feelings about CPI

Previous Core CPI was 0.3. What will happen to USD if Core CPI result is: 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 Can anyone give some market predictions based on the above numbers?

Feelings about CPI

Hmm... Seems that forex.com (gains capital) has been receiving many "bad" publicity as of late. Are they really that bad ? as bad as FXCM perhaps? Yesterday, I waited for 3 mintues for my order to appear on FXCM - good thing, the surge did not ...

Central Banks Watch

I should have "reversed" straddle on this one instead. Yesterday, I reverse straddled - made 0 pips - could have won 20 if I straddled. Today, I straddled and lost 10 pips - could have won 20 pips if I reverse straddled. I dont know if this is a ...

Central Banks Watch

Crap! I was taken out by a weak reaction... 10 pip loss...

Central Banks Watch

GBPUSD had slipped down 20 pips pre BoE Meeting... Suggesting there is lots of interest around for a big bang! Lets hope for the best!

Central Banks Watch