Regarding the topic: I have live accounts with many different platforms and brokers. And I always come back to Oanda. They are simply the best. The spread widening isn't a concern for me as I trade long term. I understand that most of you trade ...

is Oanda really a good choice for trading?

Not yet. Hang on for a while...

is Oanda really a good choice for trading?

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No chance. Due to regulatory issues Oanda doesn't offer it. I trade at RBS MarketIndex. They have licensed the Oanda platform and have their own servers.

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That's not related to MT5. There are brokers where you can trade indices and commodities with MT4. Obviously not in the US.

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McFly, I'll give you some examples. Have to sort out some stuff... Update! image Open positions: image

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Yes, commodities are great. As low as 1 unit for coffee, corn, wheat, sugar, oil...

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@McFly: Basically BWILC. Will go more in detail later. Commodities tanked so I took some profits. I'll be on vacation for the next days so there won't be updates till monday. image Open positions: image

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@tommbstone: Yes. I LOVE it. @Kiwi06: Thanks, we will see. First day went good. As MyFxBook don't support MarketIndex (and not even Oanda in the future) I will post my transactions logs here again. image Open positions: image

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Good luck Piptaker! Ok, account has been set up: image

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Thanks guys, very kind of you! @Intensity: Yay, when I find some time I'll definitely do it. Have a nice evening guys, will start tomorrow. I will post all my trades almost in real time on twitter: url

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As I said, back to long again. Have buy limits below and above. image

I'm going long USD/JPY at 80.50, target 100

Warum nicht? It's just my overall long term position again. Might go down further but I have buy limit orders all the way down to 80.

I'm going long USD/JPY at 80.50, target 100

Closed all my shorts at 83 and went long again with 5k units.

I'm going long USD/JPY at 80.50, target 100

So everyone's long now? I'm a bit careful now. The japanese debts situation is nothing new guys. The USD/JPY will go up in the long term but for NOW I think it will go down a bit first. Why? Because it just looks like it will go up much further. ...

USD/JPY Discussion

Ok, I want to be more active. I decided to close all my longs here at 83.47 for a temporary pullback. Made a gain of 99%. I go short 20k units now at 83.47 with a stop at 84.10 and a target of 82.10 where I'll start to scale in longs again.

I'm going long USD/JPY at 80.50, target 100

Thanks! I mainly use very simple technicals like support/resistance and simple overbought/oversold theories and the fact that there almost always will be corrections, especially for these exaggerations in the metals (bubble) lately. Fundamentals ...

Directional Grid Trading Journal

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Directional Grid Trading Journal

Ok, here's an update: image Still a long way to go.

I'm going long USD/JPY at 80.50, target 100