Market response was quite dubious actually, bond yields rose which is not something that should happen during risk-off news. Better to focus on remarks of Fed representatives as incoming data is really confusing.

What is US strength?

Should work if good part of others will think as you think. Their assumption is also that others will think that the pattern will work out as they think. Basically this is self-fulfilling prophecy and there is no other way to verify the idea other ...

Bullish/Bearish Reversals

Scalping can be profitable in the long term if it's done correctly and with discipline. Scalping is a short-term trading strategy that involves taking small profits from small price movements throughout the day. The key to success in scalping is to ...

Scalping! Can it really be profitable in the long term?

Well it works like that: Fed provides guidance, economic and policy forecasts at their meeting, then data arrives and if too strong or too weak it causes repricing of Fed policy actions. It is like cat-and-mouse game, sometimes Fed is "ahead of the ...

What is US strength?

What do you think about index arbitrage? Constructing some custom index and trying to see if there is any relationship with some particular asset, maybe their linear combination is persistent? Struggling to find good approach to build such index for ...

Mathematical Relationship between Forex pairs

Yeah, this can be said about 90% of traders. It's not a surprise that many brokers state that 70% of traders lose money with them, I think if we consider one year performance the number will increase further.

I lost 7k dollars and I am in a massive pain

Can you suggest any reliable offshore brokers, i.e. that operate exclusively offshore? I don't know any

Best Broker?

You solve an equation e^R = 1+r, where R - continuously compounding rate, r - interest rate compounded annually. Taking natural logarithm on both sides: R =ln(1+r). So if annually compounded rate is 10%, then R = 9.53% Key thing to not to not ...

Basic mathematic problems for finance

Looking forward to see how it performs on live trading. I still think you need a niche market for such trading strategies, won't be competitive for forex. Anyway good luck bro!

AI talking

If it becomes a game, where you like to experience emotions from up and down then it should remain entertaining and motivate you to trade further.

How do you newbies not lose your motivation?

With scalping you will understand faster whether your system has an edge or not as sample of returns will grow faster.

Scalping! Can it really be profitable in the long term?

yes they look legit and professional. Transaction costs are ultra-low you can hardly find something better for scalping. I would also add Hotforex to that list.

Best Broker?

As per my experience you can find better brokers in terms of spreads. Execution is great but for scalping you may need to find something more cheaper, probably with some fixed part in transaction costs (i.e. commission + markup scheme)

Capital.com - Any feedback?

While neural networks can be a powerful tool for predicting market prices, they are not always the best choice for forex trading. One reason is that neural networks can be prone to overfitting, which means they may fit too closely to historical data ...

AI talking

This is a kind of pyramid trading (check his trades and equity growth), if price goes against you open position, and if goes further you continue to open position. Hence you get such a nice equity curve when you get profit realized. But this is just ...

This guy is a Mean reversion monster trader

Forex trading is risky because the market is volatile and prices can change quickly. Trading with leverage can also lead to bigger losses. On top of that, some brokers may engage in unethical practices that can harm traders. To stay safe, it's ...

why forex is so risky?

Should also add here probably that if you use e (Exponent), you should also use continuously compounded rates (convert if necessary)

Basic mathematic problems for finance

Most probably it is a manipulaton. Also most "trading contest" business and prop firms that hire is just a type of a soft scam - they either generate leads for a broker or earn from various fees delaying the process of transition of their winning ...

A winner with 94% of return in less than a month, how come?!

Generally I avoid times when the liquidity is low. Quality of execution is less predictable also sometimes spread widening happens and if your SL is triggered it can be very frustrating.

How do you trade the Asian session?

Have you checked tradingfxvps.com? I use it with Hotforex and get 1-2 ms connection latency

Best VPS for IC Markets?