$1000 * .05 = $50 $50/25 pips = $2 pips Set your units to whatever it needs to be to have $2 pips. You can see the pip value in the order window for whatever amount of units you enter.

5% calculation in Oanda

I guess you didn't see this then from their website: During non-standard trading hours such as weekends, spreads are widened to reflect illiquidity in the market. During periods of high volatility such as news events, spreads may be widened ...

Oanda users - Oanda widening spreads

Because the euro made a nice move and strengthened against the pound and e/u and g/u have to absorb that move cause of the interrelationship between the three.

EURUSD

They are not fixated on the 'fear' of poor money management and martingale it's that they understand what it can and WILL do to an account. And it doesn't matter if you think onions are good or bad for you because either way they are going to make ...

SuperTrend Hedge V1

More advanced traders who understand trading know not to do it.

SuperTrend Hedge V1

You must be one of those people that refer to any kind of soft drink as "Coke".

Oanda trade rejected

How are your EAs going crazy with Oanda when they are not a mt4 shop?

Oanda trade rejected

Yeah, but you won't know that until the rest of the waves are complete!

Anyone monitor this pattern?

Did you learn this crap from the spam website you're pushing?

Times to trade?

In my opinion, there is no "best" time to trade, per se. You need to figure out when you can devote uninterrupted time to trading and analysis and learn to trade at those times whether they be high or low volatility. Case in point, I would love to ...

Times to trade?

Probably one or the other. Ha! I am seeing some inside bars on the daily and wedge on 4h. I wouldn't take a trade on that right now. I would wait to see what happens the next couple days. It's also stalling at the 200 day SMA. If it breaks lower ...

Pair least affected by majors?

AUD/NZD doesn't look any better than a bunch of other pairs. It's been in a loose range for the past month or so on the daily but also just created a double bottom late last week with the low in mid May. My best advice, FWIW, is to just look at a ...

Pair least affected by majors?

Apples and oranges. You're referring to a pair's average daily range which has nothing to do with if it's appropriate to range trade or not. It could have an 80 pip daily range but be trending overall with very few retracements and move 500 pips in ...

Pair least affected by majors?

Not what you want to hear, but.... — None. At least none on a consistent and predictable basis. Reason is eur/jpy / usd/jpy = eur/usd eur/chf / usd/chf = eur/usd eur/jpy / eur/chf = chf/jpy and so on and so on.... You can trace any pair back ...

Pair least affected by majors?

Exactly. Here's a post from another person on the forum from another thread. "I have had a stint where I had 34 losing trades back to back! image What went wrong? Just the law of averages and probability. The market went in to a period of ...

What is your edge?

Try putting down the self-help book for a bit.

Once you can trade profitably are you rich?

Yup.

Whats your favourite Trading Book/Movie/Show?

"Boiler Room" is pretty good.

Whats your favourite Trading Book/Movie/Show?

I don't think anything the OP has mentioned gives anyone an edge. IMO, the edge lies in the ability of the trader to know how and when to capitalize on the current market conditions whether it be trading a pair like aud/jpy when there's severe risk ...

What is your edge?

It's the wise man that realizes he has much to learn.

I've hit a wall