Trading Statistics — Hi Forexcube, you are heavily trading here, I appreciate that! Are all your trades real money? Are you willing to share some performance statistics? Regards, TraderJF

E.&O.E.

R:R, Money Management — While I agree that it is a good idea to look for setups with reward/risk 2:1 or better, I have also found that it is possible to trade setups which have a very bad r:r, like 1:5, 1:10 or worse. Of course, such setups ...

I finally quit my day job!

HFT strategies — Well, that is a bold statement. And it is wrong. What do you think those HFT firms are doing? They have exactly that: Automated strategies requiring almost zero intervention. Ok, at least you need to turn on the computer where ...

Moving Average trend-trading auto trading robot by Steve Hopwood

Trading Systems — From my experience, a self-designed automated system is one of the strongest options you have to become profitable. Did you automate your systems? Probably not, because otherwise it would have been unlikely to lose money with ...

Nihilist trading

Borsi & Co. — Borsi scalped Italian stocks with directa as broker. His equipment was a laptop with WLAN connection, nothing special. Super cheap commissions, good leverage. He did not even look at a chart, he only looked at the order book. ...

I finally quit my day job!

Troll — There we have it: the troll. You gave up on forex, why are you here?

I finally quit my day job!

Some more famous traders — How about Paul Rotter, placing hundreds of trades per day, making +50% (+500K) per day when he started? Here is the full story: url Or Giovanni Borsi? A deadly scalper making +50 EUR per minute in a trading contest ...

I finally quit my day job!

Nay-sayer — I didn't say I was making tons of money. Unlike others, I can make a living of my trading, though. Tons of money, that is the day trader I mentioned. Just like I said: you won't believe it. Most people even don't believe it when he ...

I finally quit my day job!

It is possible — Most answers to this thread are not from full-time traders, like this one: All you nay-sayers, I have to disappoint you: It is possible to do it. But... in my opinion, it is far from easy. I switched to trading full time by ...

I finally quit my day job!

Martingale is the sure way into ruin — I really do not know why you beginners investigate Martingale. As you already said, for Martingale to work you would need unlimited capital. You do not have that capital, nobody has. Therefore it is clear ...

Modified Never Loss Strategy

Source Code & Backtest results — Hi Passerby, thank you for sharing your work here! However, I would like to ask wether you could share the source code (as mq4 file) of your EA as it is not possible to understand (change, improve, fix ...

A 5minute Inside Bar System

Predictable — Looks like he has learnt something... When there is no movement, it is usually not a good idea to put on a trade. It could take months for EUR/CHF to awake. And yes, EUR/USD can be traded profitably - notice he didn't say it was ...

EUR/CHF

Carry trades — Avoid MT4 brokers, they are usually not trustworthy. Try a NFA regulated broker instead (who offers trading futures). Carry trades are a special thing. Maybe for this Oanda might be a good choice - not NFA regulated (as I ...

EUR/CHF

No Volume in Forex — There is no public volume data available in spot forex because there is no official marketplace for it. Interbank trade data usually is kept secret by the banks. So this volume chart above is worth nothing.

EUR/CHF

Credibility of SNB? — Then they have already lost all their credibility. The SNB pegs in the last three years were 1.60 and 1.40. So it will not bother them much to lose it again when 1.20 falls.

EUR/CHF

Market moves where the stops are — If this trade did not kill you right away, then you have now learnt something to make it better the next time. When I feel that I am wrong, I close my positions. I think this is always a good advice. No, it ...

EUR/CHF

Capability of SNB — While it may be reasonable not to go against the SNB, why should one go against the rest of the market instead? If I had to choose, I would certainly not go against the rest of the market - which means that I would go ...

EUR/CHF

Intervention Trader — Hi bguguen, you say that you are building a long position on the dips in direction of the intervention. I would like to know how you played the recent interventions in the last 3 years in EUR/CHF. As I remember EUR/CHF ...

EUR/CHF