well i have a ea set up through metastock and when i get alerts i get in pretty simple. i usually make less pips in the asian session than on the US session but the pips are safer. a candle going against you in that session is only like 10 pips. ...

Technical Trading the Asian Session

it was interbankfx. moved to oanda and fxdd since.

Specific FXDD question

what i realized trading this is that there will be alot of false alerts since the metastock datafeed is much different to that of brokers. so i guess autotrade wont really be an option. i even modified it and got even more alerts so no way can i ...

Is backtesting any good? Ridiculous Results

Well I already use this strategy for trading and usually scalp 5-10 pips everytime. This usually works a couple of times a day and it basically works during more calm times, i have a separate strategy for news releases. I was just amazed at the ...

Is backtesting any good? Ridiculous Results

As far as avg winning pips the avg is 12(Assuming spread is 2) and avg loss is 18 pips(since im already down 2 when entering). I adjust for the spread according to pair but spreads are generally between 2-3 on oanda anyway. As for the coding i ...

Is backtesting any good? Ridiculous Results

one thing that i found positive about fxdd is that it leads some brokers. on the last announcement i saw the move on fxdd took a position in my broker and it moved 3 secs later. i use it as my demo for now.

Specific FXDD question

i currently have metastock and the language is as easy as it gets you literally write cross(close, mov(close, period, ema). i tried writing somthing similar to that in metatrader(if close > ima(20, mode_sma,0)) and got a bunch of errors. i dont need ...

Metatrader Formula language help

i found same strange differences last night between the 2 feeds. for one the ib charts are a minute fast. that can really screw you up when you depend on ma breaks. also for some reason when the usdjpy took off last night the buy point was the same ...

FXDD or Interbankfx