Good luck on your endeavor. I'll be in Singapore tomorrow before my flight takes me back to Europe. During the past few weeks the Asian region left a big impression behind and moving there for a year or two sounds like it's worth the consideration. ...

Million Dollar Indices Trading (Options and Futures)

This is a really good topic to talk about as. Capital acquisition and finding enough time to trade while having a job are 2 entirely different questions. In the past I have been trading alongside my other activities which was possible to a certain ...

When your primary income is not (yet) from trading

Your list is heavily biased because of your own experience but it does not hold the "grand truth". There are many people who profitably apply the methods you would consider a mistake and if it works whats so bad about it? Yes I really dislike using ...

The Most Important and Volatile News Event To Trade?

Pick one and create the best results you want on a trade explorer: ... 1.) You go long on one account and short on another. The account which does well is the on you present to the public. 2.) You only close the profitable trades and hide the open ...

Multiplying 140x the balance of a live account in 30 hours

Thats due to the broker noticing that you are profitable and the broker switching your account from b booking to a booking which is a common practice. Once you make enough profit they actually hedge your position which will result in the real ...

I plan to quit forex!

Thank you for the reports. I will look through all of them and take a look at the old reports as well. Those are the real numbers every trader should be concerned about and they are much more valuable than some unemployment figures... While the same ...

demo account and live account differ in slippage? FXCM

I would be very happy with 20% a month. I doubled my account within the last 6 months with a few very good months (above 20%) and a negative month. If you factor in monthly compounding it requires a return of 12%/month. This was realized on an ...

20% per month. Is this possible?

Theoretically they can. If I remember correctly (as I wasn't affected by the issue) they forgave negative balance during the CHF event, but afterwards changed the user agreement so that they will be able to pursue negative balance in the future. As ...

OANDA Discussion

Do you also have numbers of the total amount amount (or a factor) of slippage generated not only the % of occurrences? As within trading results strike rate isn't everything if the average loss is much greater than the average win. I have talked to ...

demo account and live account differ in slippage? FXCM

Without having read more than 2 pages on this thread: Common sense is the key term here. Why should a broker pay out horrendous amounts of money if they neither make anything by spread nor commission. Look at all those 3 second trades it's ...

Multiplying 140x the balance of a live account in 30 hours

This week would have been glorious to trade. I marked 3 or 4 events in my calendar but I'll be on my way to asia and who knows if it's a good idea to take my laptop along. Good luck everyone else though

Around the corner

Do you trade wti or crude?

Central Banks & Big Players

May I ask what you (and everyone else) what you are doing when you are waiting for a new candle to open? You have to check your charts every half hour but this should be done in a couple of minutes at the later stage of the day. I am interested ...

trend catching with NonLagDot indicator

I haven't worked with mql for a long time so it could be that there is a simple solution. I have not tried to solve this problem before but there should be a good way to do it, surprisingly enough I did not find anything useful in the doc and ...

Return Upper/Lower for Obj_stddevchannel or Obj_regression?

Once you hear someone talk about how their broker manipulate their platform or price feed like "My broker is stop hunting me." you know they will be gone within a week or 2. Sadly I have to admit that I did exactly that this January. The first month ...

Last words of a trader

While I appreciate the effort and I read up on the progress once in a while you really should take a step back and look at the inputs. Do all those filters really make the ea profitable? Just by seeing the input parameters I can tell you that you ...

Quantum London Trading

You should be much more concerned if people are ready to invest large sums with someone who does not back up his claims and simply demands money to be thrown at him. I recently got an email from a prince in africa who promised me 1 million bucks if ...

turned 1K to 4.5K in a week with 4% drawdown

While it might be true that brokers can intentional freeze their platform if they want to why would they decide to freeze a demo platform for on a newly created account? It could be that they have problems with their platform but in this case it ...

Does anyone know a broker that doesn't freeze the MT4 platform

Is this really a valid trade? If I would follow my instincts I would also say that this is a late entry in an exhausted trend.

trend catching with NonLagDot indicator

Thank you. Could you please talk a little bit more about when you decide to move your stop to BE? And may I ask if you take news into consideration? The single exposure might not be high while trading a basket but I would still avoid the 2 or 3 big ...

trend catching with NonLagDot indicator