November Results... It is that high because you are riding high from good November results. The bulk of your deposits were in November also. Luckily you survived a +20% drawdown around Dec. 6th-ish. You are holding some losing trades (and your Open ...

What is Profit Factor calculation?

The best two parts of this thread- (chuckle)

How exactly does Foreign Exchange work at Banks?

Thanks SupraSense... no offense taken. Crassius, I'm with you... too. While there are some advantages for smaller accounts, we are definitely disadvantaged compared to exchange traded futures in many ways, I do like the discussion, hopefully there ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

Discussing this... and with the chance that I will be told that- " I do not know what I am talking about or belittled because I trade with too little frequency..." I will state again .... people underestimate the high-frequency component of ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

(sigh)

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

MB Trading offers an a true ECN (even if legally they must call it EXN), where they bring market participants together, I have seen no evidence of "backing away" from quoted markets. I have done over 1000 trades, very short-term, on Pay for Limits ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

I'm sorry. I have had many fewer problems over the past years. The Pay for Limits payout (or lack of) of less than $.01 is probably an unintended consequence of them lowering the payouts by 75%. Before at $1.95 per 100,000, even a 1000 lot would get ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

Liquidity and "last look" MBT pays traders to add liquidity. For 99% of the market participants, a 1000 micro lot is not liquidity. Having multiple orders at different prices for 1000s is not liquidity. Many MT4 brokers don't even accept orders ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

further support for my prev question... — Here is the exact same price interval as my first picture. 1.306900 thru 1.307190 EUR/USD this was screen captured at approx 2:10pm EST, the previous was approx 10:45am EST. Where did the volume "go"? ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

A question about MBT DOM interface — I have a question about MBT Nav's DOM Interface (or Ladder). I used to think Volume indicated volume traded at that price within MB Trading's "universe". It does increase sometimes as price trades around, ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

Likewise...no problems — multiple accounts 2006-present, no problems with withdrawals ever.

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

Free eXn vs Pay for Limits — Let me begin by saying, I am clearly a "fan" of MB Trading and I think they are among the most innovative and fair brokers around. I've used them for 6+ years, first for stocks and futures, and finally forex. I ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

trying to help.... — Honestly trying to help...even if I sound negative. You spoke of trading slightly after 11:00am EST... that is London "fix" time, and nasty things can happen in a very short period of time. I used to think I was safe to ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

This is the question... — This is what Lollipip was asking... There was a mention of it here previously....I don't know the current situation. url

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

That is something to celebrate.... — That is good news... please keep us updated!

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

Your initial idea... — Keep your initial idea... SL 10 (or more depending on pair), TP 2 pips (or slightly more depending on pair). Find an indicator to determine trend, experiment with a short "period", because your TP should be hit ...

Eat the elephant in small bites

he hints at it... — He hints at a very high win-rate system... and so far (maybe) has only had one really bad drawdown 25%. The worst case scenarios will come eventually. If he had to take that 25% loss for some reason (or chose to)... his ...

I have a profitable trading strategy. Should I quit my job?

Correlation... — Really depends on the correlation of your positions... be honest with yourself....how many are EUR based, or GBP based, or USD based? I wouldn't risk 10% on a bunch of averaged down EUR/USD positions, nor EUR/USD and EUR/JPY ...

Account risk on multiple open positions

See above... — One last question, you said you have never allowed more than a 10% loss in the past 5 months? Have you actually taken a 10% loss on a trade in the past five months? (or has a 10% loss on a trade NOT APPEARED in the last five ...

I have a profitable trading strategy. Should I quit my job?