HI, It's miserable to hear that some brokers reversed trade that are profitable. If you say some brokers do anything they could like requotes, delay execution or some other tricks to prevent you from scalping or to drive you away, it's dirty but ...

Getting flagged after a withdrawal

Hi to all, I am doing manual backtesting myself in MT4 demo using 4-hour timeframe. When I manually backtested, once I placed an entry order, if my trade is profitable EVERYTIME I exited at a candle close. In between my entry and exit time I checked ...

Why doesn't it work more recently?

I agreed. With usually 1 - 2 major announcement for any particular currencies everyday, if you are a frequent trader (or always hold positions), from time to time it's unavoidable (unless you are so good) that you will find your stop loss just ...

Oanda just lower their spreads!!

HI Laodeabdul, Thanks for your reply. I read your post again and it is clear to me. But it seems a little strange in my MT4 because I first applied ATR(156), then I applied MA(20) to it and set it to "first indicator's data". When I then changed the ...

Problem getting moving average of ATR

Hi, Thanks for all those who have replied. I fixed the problem. I found that when I selected "previous indicators's data" it seems to fix the problem. But not "first indicator's data". Not sure why it worked this way but I just know it works now ...

Problem getting moving average of ATR

Don't want to add heat in this argument but I have to say that I agree with what Merlin said. If you have a system that exploits an inefficiency in the market, you can make money. Please note that I am not arguing making a system widely known will ...

This so called "self-destruction" of trading systems...

With the big move that GBP/JPY made during the last 2 weeks I think many systems can make money and so please don't judge the validity of your system because "results was encouraging" during the last 2 exceptional weeks. Just my opinions here.

Need Help!!!!

HI Ken, You said testing them for a single week but I think it's not long enough to be a very representative sample (though to some extent it still say something about that broker). Perhaps may be 2 - 3 weeks.

Is Your Fx Broker Robbing You Blind? Test 'em!

As originally estimated, many of our forum users started late in the forex world. 2 days into the poll, 75% of the respondents stared in 2005 or later. Thanks to all who participated in the poll.

Poll - When did you start trading forex? Anyone had 10+ years here?

Hi Igrok, The markets evolved so much between now and 1997 (especially with less gaps over weekends) and much less volatility. You said you still trade your template/method now. So, the same method still works after so many years? Or you still have ...

Poll - When did you start trading forex? Anyone had 10+ years here?

What is your book called if you don't mind? (you can PM me if you don't want to make it public). You said you have a fund, is it your own fund or you managed a fund related to Forex for a big company? Was 2002 a bad year for most of the Forex ...

Poll - When did you start trading forex? Anyone had 10+ years here?

If you are still around in this Forex World at this moment and was not scared away (losing money, etc,) I think you must be mature enough in terms of your trading skills now so you are making consistent profits over the last 7 -8 years, right? Was ...

Poll - When did you start trading forex? Anyone had 10+ years here?

Ha! Ha! That was funny. That's why I was wondering how people even the big banks design their strategies during those days. A few hundred or a thousand pips gained or lost in just a day and it makes you rich or wipes your account in no time. And ...

Poll - When did you start trading forex? Anyone had 10+ years here?

What are synthetic EUR charts pre 1999? I notice that for many EUR charts today it went back before 1999 and EUR was not existed before that year.

Poll - When did you start trading forex? Anyone had 10+ years here?

Thanks Igrok for your response. So, as a general public actually we can trade in the Forex Market in the early and mid 90's? Probably trading Forex is not common among the public at that time and we don't know about it during those periods. Do you ...

Poll - When did you start trading forex? Anyone had 10+ years here?