terms and definitions — hello aparsai, I think the thread title should read either "mechanical trading vs. discretional trading" or "manual trading vs. automatic trading" to make sense, since mechanical trading can be done both manually or ...

Mechanical Trading vs Manual Trading

T3 and S3, Trailing Stop — Markj, thanks for the effort of creating the manual and sharing it with us. I started manual backtesting for a few days and it does look promising. I don't understand some details, though: On page 8 of your manual it ...

BatFink Trading Strategy

USD retail sales — Lost twice on my straddle, went long first and then short, only to get stopped out of both trades a few seconds after the entries. Good thing is that all stop losses worked properly and minimized damage.

UK and US Retail Sales later

Finally everything worked fine: Based on the spread 1 min before release, stop entry trigger was 4 pips above ask / below bid, stop entry limit +- 6, target limit +- 26

UK and US Retail Sales later

GBP unemployment at Interactive Brokers — Today I tried to trade GBP/USD on unemployment numbers. There were some wicked price jumps at the IDEALPRO ECN. If you look at the attachment, you'll see the spread developing through the news release ...

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Todays spread for CPI — ... at Interactive Brokers, 1430 CET. One minute before the release I had entered a straddle with stop trigger +- 5pips, stop limit +- 10 pips, each with a 10 pip trailing stop attached. Went long at 1.2798 at 14:29:58 ...

News Trading Broker

See my previous post with the attached screenshot! Interactive Brokers is an ECN ("electronic communication network", the term is not limited to forex, since ECNs were used for stocks before, think of Island ECN) broker. So it's not the broker ...

News Trading Broker

I have to correct my previous statement: Today during PPI at 1430 CET I saw the spread widen to as much as eight pips. I had a stop limit order with a limit 2 pips above activation price which was overrun by the market without being filled.

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Hello, I can recommend Interactive Brokers. They offer an ECN where your order will be represented. Unlike with Oanda (Oanda isn't a broker, but a market maker), you are not forced to use artificial bid/ask prices. Instead, you can improve bid or ...

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