I think there is no point for brokers to offer the leverage if any sizeable price move (like 10 pips up or down and there are no quotes inside that move) will leave trader with negative balance, i.e. it will owe broker. I think this situation can be ...

What is the maximum leverage that is allowed in forex trading?

I think the biggest problem is to find profitable market inefficiencies where competition from other market players is low. Every new idea is increasingly more difficult to find and implement especially when your potential rivals can use AI and ...

What is your biggest problem when it comes to trading?

Never experienced any platform freezes or disconnections with Hotforex. Maybe because I run MT4 platform from forex VPS and use robot for trading.

Looking for good broker with reliable demo account (not freezing)

Just make sure you have enough money to cover daily swaps. I think there is plenty of choice and it is worth to focus only on regulation as execution and spreads shouldn't matter to you.

Long swing/position brokers

What commodities exactly do you need and what should be the underlying asset? In case it is exactly commodity asset, have a look at Hotforex url they have instruments like live cattle, juice, cotton etc..

MT4 Broker with wide range of commodities

It's like using 1:100 or 1:200 leverage to open positions (though not possible for exchange-traded instruments) or selling naked call options (where upside potential is unlimited). Higher leverage increases pip value, hence smaller adverse move can ...

New to Trading and Forex

Money management is extremely important in trading. By far most of individuals slump in trading since they don't take after incredible money management rules. You can't risk more than 2% of your capital. You can take one trade or a couple but total ...

why forex is so risky?

For some markets when there are lots of amateur traders you can make good money using MA bounces&crossover signals. Despite low frequency of signals their win ratio remains high, simple because MA is easy to grasp and popular among traders making it ...

Why moving averages are important?

Looks like a grid strategy or Martingale, too smooth equity curve, likely to accumulate small risks in one big one (feature of such strategies)

Profitable GBPUSD m5 EA

They look good and properly regulated well you have to compare trading costs with other brokers to make a proper decision, otherwise they look legit

Best Broker?

Concentration of mining power is also centralization just very inefficient. But well yes I can't imagine completely decentralized systems adopted at government levels it just runs counter the idea of a state

Forex - A negative sum game for losers

In my view it's quite intuitive to expect that traders use higher timeframes to determine trends and lower timeframes to find entry points depending on what they expect (trend continuation, trend abortion). Zooming in a pullback or breakout you can ...

What has more influence bigger or smaller time frame?

Yeah, Euro recovered significantly but turning points usually happen at the start of new year (should be some seasonal pattern) and the odds in my view that Euro's decline will resume.

HotForex Discussion

Also the odds are greatly against you if you do manual scalping, I got significant improvement in returns after I automated entry and exit decisions. Many trading opportunities require reaction below human threshold, hence trading bot is the only ...

scalping strategy

I think there is no black-or-white answer here they just gradually cashing out hoping for new highs to get more profit on the rest of their holdings, just as regular BTC speculators just more sophisticated. We are talking about average Joe in ...

Are bitcoin owners making a crypto-exit?

Yes, I agree but what about proof of stake or other mechanism. I think that progress in adoption will inevitably lead to new solutions how to verify transactions, you know it is two-way feedback process otherwise it is catch 22 situation - no ...

Forex - A negative sum game for losers

There is no such thing as the best brokers, they use roughly the same liquidity providers and sometimes can have good fills and sometimes bad fills on your orders, I think it is often random and you can't predict it. Just use brokers which have FCA ...

Best Broker?

Tickmill is most probably an ECN broker as well as Hotforex they keep very low spreads during liquid sessions, impossible with STP approach imho

Real ECN Broker

Price action is basically analysis based on intuition which is weak approach. There are numerous interpretations of price behavior (some will see reversal, other will see a pullback inside a trend) and there is no way to say which one is better. In ...

Price is everything

At Tickmill or Hotforex spreads on EURUSD, USDJPY are close to zero during London session (1 pip average). It is either a bug or you should definitely change your broker.

Broker has high spreads