Governments have created a financial crisis by allowing and encouraging abuse of free markets while irresponsibly expanding the money supply. Governments will attach blame to the markets themselves. Do not be surprised to see further measures to ...

Buying foreign currency=illegal???

That's encouraging. I haven't made a lot of money, but it's right at the top of my to do list for next week!

Individual Currencies & Relative Strength

I don't want to sidetrack this thread too much with my particular charts, which are not available in the public domain. I'll probably start a journal and discuss it in that. In this thread I'm merely musing why, in a thread titled "Individual ...

Individual Currencies & Relative Strength

Why not just chart each currency as an index? image

Individual Currencies & Relative Strength

I would give up. These guys are speaking another language. Everybody knows that: good luck = favourable outcome of a random event bad luck = unfavourable outcome of a random event You win in forex by increasing your exposure to the former while ...

Admit it - your profits are based on luck

Just tried this, works fine. //+------------------------------------------------------------------+ //| expert initialization function | //+------------------------------------------------------------------+ int init() { //---- //---- return(0); } ...

Problems with Simple MarketInfo() function

The method is simply to use an EA on a live chart to generate an offline chart and periodically update that chart. You can chart any data you want, change timezone, chart into the future etc. I use it to chart proprietary currency indices. image

Showing Bars Without A Price Change !!! Is This Possible ???

I haven't tried the EA in the article, but I use a similar method to generate my own custom charts. You could try the forum on that site if you're having trouble with their EA.

Showing Bars Without A Price Change !!! Is This Possible ???

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Showing Bars Without A Price Change !!! Is This Possible ???

Your profit/loss is in JPY. It is not converted to USD until you close the trade. So when you track your P/L of open positions you use the current conversion rate not the one prevailing when you opened your position.

Pip value of the positions that depend on other currencies rates

Of those two, the M1 is clearly the more orderly and predictable time series.

Trading Day vs Trading Trends

Completely agree. All that stuff is just gambling for a newbie. Those are not the right tools to use to analyse forex data IMO. Any analysis that does not take into account the independent movement of the two currency components of a pair is flawed. ...

Trading forex profitable is impossible!

Good advice; although not very helpful if you can't tell who to trust. I wouldn't recommend listening to anybody on here. If you want information about brokers or programming, then fine but if you want to find and edge, Do Your Own Research. By the ...

Trading forex profitable is impossible!

The most commonly quoted figure is that speculation makes up 95% of daily volume, but I don't think anybody knows the exact figure. Apparently, 75% of the daily volume is accounted for by just ten big investment banks (source: url ). Yet your FF ...

what % of money is speculative in forex?

Almost all of it is speculation.

what % of money is speculative in forex?

You've got more of these "(" than you have of these ")". You should have the same number of each.

Help with MetaEditor error

Your file seems to show about ten positions each consisting of dozens of parallel trades. Doesn't seem like a very conclusive test.

New Expert Advisor PROFIT FACTOR 19.39

If psarnow is not rounded to the nearest whole Point, then your test will always fail. A test like 'stoploss-psarnow > n*point' would be more reliable.

EA problem

You should only need each currency/USD. i.e. 7 pairs. You can calculate the other 21 cross rates from these 7.

US Dollar Index + AUD, CAD, CHF, EUR, GBP, NZD, JPY Dollar Index Indicators

Although the thread title does invite controversy there is no need for rudeness from posters who clearly haven't read one word of the OPs posts. Onlinefx, I wish you well with your journal. While I agree that stop orders are usually a bad method to ...

Trading without a stoploss