Wired

Has anyone ever done this?

Oanda

Dukascopy

Interesting Triphop, with a tp 5 times larger than your sl what kind of win rate can you achieve? Is this part of a high frequency scalping strategy or a more long term swing trading style?

risk reward / win loss

I tend to use 1:1 ratio of profit targets and stops, however my av. win is a bit larger than my av. loss because i sometimes close a losing trade before it hits the initial stop loss level for a small loss. Over the past few weeks my average win has ...

risk reward / win loss

Yes, If you aim for 1:1 ratio of average win to average loss, and don't close early, you will by default have a ~ 50% win rate, with 2:1 you will by default have a win rate of ~ 66% An interesting statistics to calculate is: Av. = average (Av. pips ...

risk reward / win loss

Yeah, That's ideal.

Holding Trades Over Weekends

yes i know that, but my broker, like most others, aren't open for trading on the weekends

Holding Trades Over Weekends

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100% profitable method - tight SL, and large TP

Yes i agree, but an intermittent connection is dangerous and these figures just give a rough idea of average connection quality.

Best place in the world to trade from?

For me, i would like to live some where in France. Download Speed 1 South Korea 33.91 Mb/s 2 Latvia 24.07 Mb/s 3 Republic of Moldova 21.32 Mb/s 4 Japan 20.43 Mb/s 5 Sweden 19.83 Mb/s 6 Romania 18.69 Mb/s 7 Bulgaria 17.57 Mb/s 8 Netherlands 17.34 ...

Best place in the world to trade from?

Disadvantage of hedge to achieve net zero — a hedged position of net zero is worse than no position because: even if a position is hedged at net zero it is not "safe". If the spread widens 100 pips you could potentially get a MC. As the P/L of ...

What's the point of hedging?

Thanks For your comments! I think you guys are right, it is best to just wire the funds. Just thought it was a elegant idea and was actually hoping that someone would answer my initial question and comment on their experience, but your comments are ...

Has anyone ever done this?

Dukascopy Live have a low of the BID at 1.2144 on the 0706 GMT 1 min candle, ASK low of 1.21475

liquidity test

1 use for a direct hedge — If you want to transfer funds form one account to another; Go long eu with one account, go short eu with your other account, (net exposure =0). Wait until the desired amount of money is transferred in the right ...

What's the point of hedging?

not really, the dukas account is considerably larger What about it?? (Dukascopy allow hedging so i won't be restricted to only shorts while the hedge is on) So what, it can always be re-funded later if i want

Has anyone ever done this?

I also have 4 pips on EURJPY

I think Oanda FXTrade is unreliable

Small Orders With Dukascopy — has anyone noticed that when placing small orders (<50K) with dukascopy there is greater slippage?

Dukascopy

I trade with Dukascopy and Oanda live, IMHO Dukascopy are a far superior broker all aspects except one: trading costs for small accounts. I personally would definitely recommend dukascopy over oanda unless you are trading ~< 5K, below 5K trading ...

I think Oanda FXTrade is unreliable