I'm not sure I understand it. I don't think that the only thing that happens here is money changing hand at different times. Sometimes we withdraw it and spend it on food, drink and women. Also the hedgers want to hedge in order to keep their money ...

Where does the money come from?

I'd be glad to. However, I understand the zero sum game. The question how it settles with the forex trading as we know it?

Where does the money come from?

125 pips is a very good week. The consistent of the profits though is most important. The more they are consistent, the higher sum you may risk. The higher the leverage, and hence the higher the gains in $$$ which is the end result of the game. ...

GBPUSD

Could somone change the thread title to make some sense? I accidently cut it short

Where does the money come from?

Yes, I too would really be interested in more info about ECNs. If anybody has had experience trading with them. How it is? How is the liquidity and the spreads (apart from the comission)

Need Info about a broker

Great trade. Where's your stop? How will you exit the trade?

USD/CHF

In order to gain enough confidence you should write down and backtrade the strategy you want to use and see if it was successful in a long run. Every strategy has false signals - if it didn't then it would be like Tradevector's joke That's a ...

EURUSD

See if it bounces off the lower bound. And you have no confirmation from the MACD or from the stochastic to any side.

GBPUSD

Post here you thoughts and projections along with the graphs, just as you have above and maybe you'llll get some help from us here. The forum is quite active right now, so maybe it will be worth your while. This could also lead to some interesting ...

GBPUSD

Why don't you use moving stops? Or in such a setup you could've increased position when you saw that the trade is going your way and then sell the first position while holding to the other with a moving stop.

EURUSD

I think we could've weeen the breakthrough was ongoing at about 2 AM. You had a selling signal (both the breakthrough of the channel and the MACD selling signal) at the level of ~1.8220 at 2:30AM. with a stop at ~1.8250 and target of ~1.8160 (the ...

GBPUSD

Thanks.

Money Management Links

Does it also have random exits? If so I don't really get how it works. Also if we continue along these lines. Why do people say that what is most important are the exits from the trade rather than entries. Wouldn't it hold true if my entries were ...

codification of the market / Genetic Algorithms

You see the problem is that with a totally random market you wouldn't have a win/loss ratio of 50/50 if you decided to break losing after 3% and winning after 6%. You would have about 33.3% winning trades and 66.7% losing trades. So in the end you ...

codification of the market / Genetic Algorithms

"The more people trade the less efective a systme becomes". Is this saying true. Here are some thoughts on the matter. If many people use the same method then the MMs and large players will play eventually against you. This means that using some ...

Ok I don't get it please help

My own thoughts about GA for trading. — OK here are in short some ideas I had thought of in this area for the last half a year. First of all I think that the goals here should be finding not one strategy but several which would be ...

codification of the market / Genetic Algorithms

Their site states that they do have mini-lots.

Trading with Dukascopy

Yes, I think Volatily is just some property of the price. The fact that this is a very imortant indicator is beside the point right now. But it's not based upon any additional data.

questions from a future quant