Great, now my trading history is showing transactions I never did at times I wasn't even awake

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

I have contacted support - my account balance has been reversed to a time shortly before the trade and it no longer shows up in my trading history. Customer service never spoke to me though.

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

Also, this is not an "EXN" or ECN or whatever they claim it is. Here is my trading log for today. This is not an ECN. Please note the "Off-Quote" and "Broker Busy" errors. Not only have you taken my entire account balance, you have lied to me about ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

Also, check the link in my signature to verify through Currensee - it is is account D under the drop-down member. I am waiting for a reply about this. Here is a screen shot for preservation's sake: image MB Trading - I have traded a notional ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

I just received a fill at .1 - I just lost 12,000 pips on the trade and now my account is massively negative. Here's some links to prove it: url image This is on a real account with my real money - I would like reimbursement for this. I have ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

I find that adding a single indicator to the screen such as a 50 period simple moving average adds clarity and helps me stay focus on the current direction of the trend.

The best way to trade?

Here's a distribution of the S&P 500 weekly returns for the past 18 years. This shows you that huge events, like what your strategy is trying to capture, happen at the "tail end" of the distribution. The height of the distribution shows frequency ...

100 x 80 EA oh boy

I believe a significant percentage of traders lose money so if you can consistently outperform the markets, then you are doing very well

what should my goal be with a $100 account

I'm talking about trading as though you are managing $100m +. You don't get (and keep) that kind of money without showing that you can control your risk and grind out consistent profits with a low volatility of returns. The idea of trading isn't to ...

what should my goal be with a $100 account

1. Choose your time period 2. Download the candle data into an Excel spreadsheet 3. Find percent change between open and high or open and low (for up candles/down candle respectively) 4. Graph a distribution of these returns using Excel's analysis ...

100 x 80 EA oh boy

HA isn't a lagging indicator - it is a type of redrawn candle. I've used it before and it is helpful. I found it better to just look at what most of the other traders are looking at - normal candles and price actions.

Does anyone use the heiken ashi indicator?

Interesting topic...I've thought of this kind of stuff before but I'd love to do some number crunching in Excel to get an idea as to the distribution of directional moves before trading it.

100 x 80 EA oh boy

I've tried reversing signals before...the issue is that your stop-loss then becomes a takeprofit and your takeprofit then becomes a stop-loss...thus reversing everying ...I've even tried technical analysis on equity curves - it doesn't work very ...

if 99% fail why not reverse what we trade

I think you need to be much more realistic about these returns. The market on average returns about 1% per month. If you could consistently grind out 2% per month, you will be in the top ranks of investors and traders.

what should my goal be with a $100 account

There are many different methods of calculating lot sizing. I'd look into this a little more: -Fixed fractional lot sizing -Optimal f, Kelly R

looking for lot size calculator

And as a followup...most people who brag about returns are doing so with the intention of making money off of you in some way...

What is your weekly return?

If you can make .5-1% per week consistently, you are in the rankings of great traders.

What is your weekly return?

With a $100 account you should focus on preserving it and look at percentage returns. If you can be a steward of little, I believe that eventually it can grow and become much.

what should my goal be with a $100 account

I manually close my positions most of the time, but almost always I have a fail-safe stop loss in the system should my internet go down.

Real Fx traders do not use stoploss