The dude's link above has HLC data. Just missing open, which you can approx using previous close. not bad considering it runs back to 1800. Any recommendations for free & regularly updated OHLC H1 H4 data for simple scrapping off the web? I'm ...

EUR/USD - Historical data

Hi redwed, one potential solution for monitoring all crosses is a matrix. see screenshot attached. I've adjusted my matrix to read-off vertically (orignal idea here: url , matrix reads-off horizontally) This thread is gold. I hope to generate more ...

Money flows: Trading the strongest / weakest major currency cross

chanced upon your thread as I was doing a search on how to programmatically run backtesting on mt4. I am learning myself, but am currently at the break out moment. 1) REDUCE your trade size to a minimum. gamble in cents or a few dollars until you r ...

How to Correctly BackTest, Collect Data, and Analyze A System

This leads to the question of identifying a proper basket of apple & apple & apple.. ... for comparison. from the above eg, AUD registered 'larger' moves against USD. Does this imply AUD should be observed when trading GBPJPY, OR maybe this implies ...

Money flows: Trading the strongest / weakest major currency cross

You are right. I don't understand what you mean. Conventionally, price is printed bar-by-bar by using time OR per number of trades (tick chart) as the base. Time is mostly used, since the fragmented business of spot fx makes tick data by single ...

Money flows: Trading the strongest / weakest major currency cross

Pipalicious, do you measure tick ratios as a gauge for where the 'action' is? how do you measure them? by time.. min-by-min- cross A moved 1 pip in the last min, while cross B moved 5 pips? I am thinking a simple matrix of crosses showing if prices ...

Money flows: Trading the strongest / weakest major currency cross

re: Pipalicious, I find your suggestion of sizing relative to trend interesting. your analogy of a race driver switching gears really puts your idea into perspective *two thumbs up* based on your quick n multiple entries, seems like your scalping ...

Money flows: Trading the strongest / weakest major currency cross

carbonado, you can start with finviz. forexticket discloses how it computes its indexes on the same page as its currency index. I explored building custom indexes based on historical trade weighted data as per unknown4x showed. while I do not know ...

Money flows: Trading the strongest / weakest major currency cross

nice to see some activity here again strip this concept down to it's most basic idea (ala inception- the movie). this concept identifies where the 'action' is. after I find out where the action is, I then use other tools (my own style) to either ...

Money flows: Trading the strongest / weakest major currency cross

unknown4x gave an intraday primer to how capital flows work for a "now" timeframe. He left before finishing up on his "juicy" bit on how fx relates to gold, commods, stocks, bonds. If you followed his teachings on trading "now" fx flows, you would ...

Money flows: Trading the strongest / weakest major currency cross

following the above post, after clarification, the "pattern day trader" restrictions DO NOT apply to futures.. it applies only to stocks & options

FX futures contracts vs Regular FX

Forexia, would it make sense to trade globex e-micro futures with a capital of 30k-40k USD.. For a retail guy to trade globex e-micro fx futures, what is the minimum capital needed? I know 30k USD is pushing it. Will 40k USD be comfortable if I ...

Interactive Brokers - experiences and opinions

for spot vs futures see this post: url

Why trade Futures?

It makes sense to do e-micro fx futures if u r trading $2-3k upwards in capital AND can meet the day trading USD$25k+++ margin requirements The only minor downside for us retail guys is that the e-micro instruments r limited to USD pairs (of which ...

FX futures contracts vs Regular FX

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How to create synthetic pair: GBP/SEK using Gbp/usd*usd/sek

Abit late here. I have some experience trading es-mini & nk futures, BUT have not dabbled in actual trading of fx futures, so limited knowledge here. Hopefully, an experienced fx futures trader can enlighten us (althou the odds of a fx futures ...

Broker with Depth of Market for Retail Traders

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How to create synthetic pair: GBP/SEK using Gbp/usd*usd/sek

I feel it is suicide to scalp flows with mt4 brokers. One would need a price ladder for quick trading & "real" tight spreads. You prob need "a real broker" .. Issue is.. those are non-programmer unfriendly, needing you to write custom softwares to ...

Money flows: Trading the strongest / weakest major currency cross

Hi All, Thus far, I have clued out small gold nuggets here & there from unknown4x's sharing. Anyone successfully trading with this style, able to share pointers? Thus far I have pieced custom indicies as per markit weightings. After identifying ...

Money flows: Trading the strongest / weakest major currency cross