Forex has definitely got less popular. I've attached a chart of the google searches for "forex" since 2004. The term "forex trading" has a similar pattern. You can see a significant increase from 2006 to 2008, and then a sharp sudden fall, and a ...

Is forex becoming less popular?

Not sure if it's more "complicated". Just different. You can buy any stock, but not every stock is shortable. Typically all large cap stocks are always shortable (e.g. Apple, Google, Bank of America, VISA etc), but small cap stocks are often not ...

How would I go about trading equities?

I don't think you understand how it works. Brokers can take out stops, not by moving the price, but by temporally increasing the spread. So if you have a long position with a hard stop, they don't need to take the ask below the stop level, they just ...

Trading Without a StopLoss

It's essential to have some sort of stop-price or condition defined, but it's best to avoid placing stop-loss orders if possible, and use mental stops instead, because stop-orders are very vulnerable to market maker manipulation i.e. temporary ...

Trading Without a StopLoss

If you're serious about trading US stocks, open an account with one of the US brokers such as ThinkOrSwim (TD Ameritrade) or InteractiveBrokers. Think you need about 5-10k to open an account, and 25kUSD to avoid the pattern day trader rule. I have ...

UK-based broker to trade S&P stocks

Hi Terranin, I know what you're doing now. I was hoping you were using another means of communicating between the MT4 terminals. Although the file system is obviously one way of doing this. Off the topic a bit, but what would be great would be an ...

Copying trades from one account to another

Hi Gamm, You can actually get full file handling functions by using the standard windows Kernel32.dll. I suspect Terranin's using another means to communicate between different MT4 terminals.

Copying trades from one account to another

Hi Terranin, Thanks very much for your valuable contribution. I noticed you've created a DLL (SignalProcessor.dll) to facilitate communication between the source and destination terminals. Is it possible to get a description of the mq4 function ...

Copying trades from one account to another