Trade breakdown comparison — Trade 1: EURUSD Short 15,000 GBPUSD Long 15,000 Exposure 1: EUR Short 15,000 USD Short 3,327 GBP Long 15,000 Trade 2: EURGBP Short 15,000 Exposure 2: EUR Short 15,000 GBP Long 12,972 The two are very similar, but ...

Hedge and Correlation Strategy

Statistics — newera, I think that it would be cheaper and easier to have an indicator programmed in MT4 that would visually show retracements and also output the data in CSV format so that it can be analysed in excel. Example: Inputs ...

Nanningbob 60x90 EA

We will loose out again — I feel that it's just another way for the brokers to make money. If it has not already started, then it will only be a matter of time. I bet they can't wait to start slipping trades by 0.00002 or 0.00005. Those small ...

five digit price quotes

Sell Basket — Below is a daily equity chart for the 14 pair sell basket. You can draw your own conclusions. Keep your profit locked. Coder image

Simple Trading Method with trader101

Please Explain — The correlation is not that high to prevent a profit/loss from being realised. If you have a look at a chart of the EUR/CHF, you will see the amount of uncorrelated movement between the EUR/USD and USD/CHF. (Assuming exact ...

Hedge trading spieler system derived from futures spread trading

Fill or Kill — I used a 'fill or kill' order with HotspotFX. It worked fantastic. It was via their API. Not sure if you can do it via their platform. Coder

250 pips slippage on Currenex - ODL Securities

Brokers — Interactive Brokers - Ideal platform FXE - Currency Shares Euro Trust. Any US stock broker. Coder

Broker with 0% leverage and no minimum contract?

Moving — Hello, I'm moving over to thinkorswim. I can trade currency options on the ISE and PHLX exchanges. The retail options with IKON and Saxo are priced so that strategies such as Iron condors, which should produce a net credit, actually ...

IKON GM

IKON GM — I've got 20k with them. I use them as my currency options broker. I prefer IKON to saxo and using IKON is more convenient for me than using exchange traded options. Phone support is good. No problems to report. Coder

IKON GM

Disturbing — What I find disturbing is how the whole US system operates. Surely, if a customer deposits funds with a broker, those funds should remain the property of the customer. It amounts to legal theft that customer funds are split to ...

FXLQ Shut down temporarily by NFA

Statistical Trading — Hello Scott, I really enjoyed your "Statistical Trading - Getting the Edge" article. This is something that I've got on my list of things to do this year. I've been looking for software that can do this type on analysis, ...

Will do statistical research for pips (or food)

Currency Futures — I'll share a secret with you........ "Currency Futures" Regulated market, single exchange, no manipulation, great liquidity, 23 hours/5 days a week. It took me a long while to see the light. I haven't looked back. Coder

I'm done with FXDD

DLL — A DLL is by far the easiest way to accomplish this task. What have you got against DLLs? There is even one already written that allows you to write files to a directory outside the MT4 files directory: url Coder

Data Sharing between multiple MT4 terminals

Dynamic — Yes, it is dynamic, but not enough to be significant. If the price moved > 1000pips, then you would want to think about adjusting the hedge. But if you want to be technical, the amount to hedge would change every time the prices ...

Triangular Arbitrage

Ratios — Hello scalpmaster, You can use the basket tester or the Oanda platform has an exposure tab, or just create a spreadsheet to do the calculations. There is no table that I'm aware of. Remember that the amounts change every time the ...

Triangular Arbitrage

Currency Values — Hello scalpmaster, The currency amounts to create a hedge are determined by the currency values at the time that the hedge is created. In the example pictures, it shows the following: 1 EUR = 1.4708 USD 1 USD = 109.53 JPY 1 ...

Triangular Arbitrage

Exposure — Hello scalpmaster, The reason is that your exposure is not zero. With those equal lot sizes, you are still very exposed to USD/JPY. You are effectively still short USD/JPY 2 lots. You would need to buy 735,000 USDJPY to be flat ...

Triangular Arbitrage

Russian Brokers — CFDs on just about everything are available through Russian MT4 brokers. WHC, Golden Contract, Masterforex etc.... Coder

MT4 Brokers offering indices

Broker Luck — The broker you choose will have a huge impact on your 'lucky system'. Slippages - bad luck Wide spreads - bad luck Slow execution - bad luck Re-quotes - bad luck Stop hunting - bad luck Late/missing deposits/withdrawals - bad ...

Stacking the odds ..yes we do need luck

Lemonade incident! — Hello, I'd love to show my workstation here, but there was an unfortunate "LEMONADE INCIDENT" about a week ago. It all started when my wife was feeling sick. She asked me to get her some lemonade to settle her stomach. ...

Show your workstation!