BIS has all their triennial surveys going back to 1996, as pdf files. Plus the 1996 survey has data from 1989 and 1992 as well as 1995. They don't exactly track intraday session liquidity as such, but we can look at the next best thing, ...

Liquidity change over years?

Here's the fatal flaw in your argument: the opposite of "all 4 systems fail in a given period" is not quite "we win." Rather, it's "at least 1 system wins." You've correctly calculated the probability of that outcome as 93.75%, as long as all the ...

Basement for Stategy

Still 1.5... of course, today is an official holiday in most of Europe and Canada, so liquidity is reduced. Let's wait and see what the spread looks like at the London Open tomorrow.

Central Banks & Big Players

Naturalized American citizens -- and even mere green card holders -- are subject to the same income tax rules as natural-born American citizens. That is, they all are automatically considered "tax residents" by the US government (again, that is ...

Forex Taxes

The short answer is Yes. The US is the only country in the world that taxes all its citizens, including expatriates, on their worldwide income, merely by virtue of their citizenship. If you are a US citizen and required to file a tax return, based ...

Forex Taxes

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Trading Blind

Rob Mondave is spot on: in the US, any withdrawals or deposits have absolutely no impact on your forex taxes at year end. Only the net gain/loss (realized, for most traders) for the year matters. In practical terms, your year-end net gain/loss, ...

Taxes & Forex

"Plastics" was a little old joke, of course (presumably much funnier in its time). "You" is dead serious, man. Hard to believe 80 great, funny and serious replies, yet no one said "you"... although cloggie perhaps came close with "mirror."

Bird is the word - 1 word trading advice

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Bird is the word - 1 word trading advice

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Bird is the word - 1 word trading advice

#2 is not, in general, a trading myth. If a given negative expectancy strategy happens to have a long-term observed trade distribution with a negative serial autocorrelation, then MM, all by itself, expressly designed to take advantage of that ...

Twelve widely believed forex myths

That particular belief is incorrect and will, I believe, hold you back, at least on sub-hourly time frames. (I assume you meant "nearly" rather than "newly.") Try to replace your absolute, deterministic references such as "price will move" and "once ...

Money Management - the art of the exit

Yes, it's definitely possible to turn this system into a profitable one. The key concept to visualize / question to ask may be stated as: What is the conditional probability of achieving a TP further away, before retracing all the way back and ...

Brain teaser 1: Is it possible to turn a losing system into profitable one?

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NeoRio, what year was the forex loss we are talking about?

Taxes & Forex

Well, there is no tax rule that says you have 1 calendar year to report losses from forex trading. It's just difficult to have it any other way for most people, unless they were both incredibly visionary and incredibly humble to expressly plan for ...

Taxes & Forex

The round numbers are independent of the number of decimals in the price quote. For 6 non-Yen major pairs (EUR/USD, GBP/USD, USD/CHF, USD/CAD, AUD/USD, NZD/USD) and 15 crosses of those 6 non-USD single currencies, the round numbers 00, 20, 50, 80 ...

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Xaphod, big thanks for the bug fix.

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M15-Swinger (worth bookmarking) Indicators tab Xi-Dashboard Manual (pdf)

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rahd01, I don't have anything new yet. However, I wouldn't let that delay issue stop you from joining the M15 Swinger Skype room, if that's a part of your plan. First, most people are apparently not affected, as far as they can tell. You may well be ...

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