"Gain Capital: (forex.com) “no material adverse financial impact”. They note that they increased margin requirements on CHF to 5% back in September. Update: they actually say they made a gain on the Swiss move." Any other broker whose clients were ...

CHF move as a broker "Stress Test" - Which tried to honor SL's?

List of sellers refusing to give proof

Scammers - Hall of Shame

Who cares about other peoples ignore lists anyway? If a member wants to put people on ignore that's their business. They don't have to justify it and we shouldn't concern ourselves. I also want to thank 4xPIPAHOLIC for the great thread.

Scammers - Hall of Shame

The problem is with the download. It's not connecting to the URL. Ignore the file error, that's just because it hasn't saved any files yet. Look for firewall or proxy problems etc. If you use a proxy, then make sure you can reach forexfactory.com ...

MT4 News Calendar Indicator

Commercial Members should operate under their own names. FF should charge a fee to verify their identity.

Scammers - Hall of Shame

Not necessarily. Plenty of them operate by private messages until someone outs them as commercial.

Eitan Watch

I started seeing this a while ago from build 625. I thought it was just me. It's already fixed. I've uploaded the latest updates in post 1. I've also added the option to NewsBrk to turn off the background.

MT4 News Calendar Indicator

Actually, it's 745

MT4 Build 711 - problem with integrated One Click Trader

What is your sample size for 4th level trades.

Let's build together a system which makes 1000%/month

In real life all Martingales are limited, so if you are going to use this definition then Martingale doesn't actually exist outside mathematical theory.

Magix, Martingales, and Market Myths

Aside from the additional costs, averaging down is mathematically the same as taking a loss and then opening a larger position. So I don't see how averaging is not a form of martingale.

Magix, Martingales, and Market Myths

Try this one.

MT4 New build 600 is released

No it doesn't work on XP/server 2003. I'll have another look at it.

MT4 New build 600 is released

.. with multiple user names. Just ignore him.

Is random really random?

So we shouldn't listen to anything you have to say?

Win more pips by not listening to others

For an equity fund manager you need about 175 years track record, so for an FX trader I would think that 25 years would be sufficient.

Looking for Real Trading Method

It's not bad as a first stab at getting risk adjusted returns, but as PipMeUp has pointed out, you need a significant number of drawdown periods in your sample for any analysis of historical drawdowns to be meaningful, and even then it may not ...

Alternative Reward to Risk Ratio for Trading System Statistics

You're right. I misspoke. Measurement, detection, adaptation, it all adds delay however you do it. My model isn't necessarily better, just different. I bracket the price oscillations with a channel. Any price movement not bound by the channel I ...

Quantitative Technical Analysis

I never found the "smooth" trend definition to be useful. I don't think it is a particularly good match for real price moves. For me, smooth = delayed = useless. I now do it the other way. I remove the oscillations to find the trend.

Quantitative Technical Analysis

Well a majority of all accounts are unprofitable so that is not relevant. So they are banning it because it's popular?

NFA Approves Prohibition of Credit Cards to Fund Retail FX