Maximum Daily Loss Limit — First of all, thank you for sharing your trading strategy and your actual trading! I find it very hard to cope with heavy losses (to me, this is like -5% and more). To avoid this, I stop trading for the day when I am ...

Rags To Riches

Backtest - no trades — Hello everyone! I threw the EA onto a chart of EUR/USD at H1, but the EA did not place any trades. It is a demo account at Alpari UK, data at 1-min precision, test started at 2010-01-01. Did somebody do a backtest of ...

Ibuks breakout reversal auto trading robot by Steve Hopwood

IB — I guess that most MetaTrader brokers are a scam. A new statistic shows that 50% of Oanda accounts are profitable, but only 10% - 20% of MT accounts. There must be a reason for this discrepancy. C++ and then their crappy API - that is the ...

95% winners live test

New system backtest — Looks interesting. If you need a precise backtest, let me know

95% winners live test

Reliable Broker — I find it quite astonishing that in forex trading very few think of Interactive Brokers. Perhaps because minimum deposit is 10K. True ECN, reliable, tight spreads, high liquidity - and ... well, a crappy software. Just buy a ...

95% winners live test

Another winner — Congratulations for another winner However, that was close

95% winners live test

Sounds good. I am looking forward to that You can check my profile if you want to know more about me. Cheers, TraderJF

95% winners live test

U.S. bankruptcy on August 3rd? — Hi Cubby, I like your thread. Putting 50K on the line instead of talking much. That is convincing I see that you would have gotten an account-blower on 2/16. That was Fukushima. This could mean that your ...

95% winners live test

Backtest — Hello Jubu, first of all I would like to thank you for writing an EA and making it public You wrote: I guess you already made some backtests. Would you mind sharing the results? Cheers, TraderJF

Ronnierott's 1 Hour Strategy

Already tried out? — Sounds interesting. A lot better than actually doing three trades and paying spread and commission three times. Did somebody already try that out? Cheers, TraderJF

Triangular Arbitrage

Yes, you can! — Hi Pipalicious! After some people here said that it may be very difficult and take years to do what you intend to, I would like to share my points of view concerning becoming a quant trader. First of all, you do not need the ...

The Birth of a Quant Trader

Really difficult — I must admit that I find it really difficult to do that. Instead, I tend to flip my position on the slightest sign of a market turn. Usually not a good Idea. I am currently trying to trade manually with my paper trading ...

Islander and Medici trade the European open

Thank you — Hello medici, thank you for your kind answer! I tried trading EUR/USD and GBP/USD but I found it difficult to wait for a setup which I liked. Sitting in front of the screen all day and waiting for a setup is a bit difficult for me ...

Islander and Medici trade the European open

Interactive Brokers — Hi alvseek! I am scalping FOREX with Interactive Brokers. You do not need a minimum deposit of $25k to scalp FOREX with them. You need the $25k only if you want to day trade (or scalp, for that matter) US stocks. Their ...

Dukascopy

News Trading & Scalping — Hi Max, in my experience, IB will not object to any kind of trading. Especially not when you are making money. In my first weeks as a day trader I was doing bad and they sent me a warning message that day trading ...

Dukascopy

Interactive Brokers — He is referring to Interactive Brokers (= IB). I am trading full time for two years with them and I am very happy. Usually I am scalping FOREX at their IDEALPRO exchange for a few pips with positions of 2M to 3M size. It ...

Dukascopy

Scalping the DAX — I am posting this here because this thread is a gathering of very experienced traders. I know it is a bit off-topic because it is not forex. But it is the european open. Anyway, I would like to hear some comments on this ...

Islander and Medici trade the European open

Nice Bibliography — Hello Forexcube, that looks really like a nice bibliography. I am looking forward to what those lots of articles might have to reveal Thank you very much! Do you have any readings to recommend? Especially to a scalper ...

Islander and Medici trade the European open

Outstanding Performance — No, I am not the taxman Congratulations, that is outstanding! I had hoped to hear something like this :-) Oh yeah I guess it is impossible to completely avoid losing trades. May I ask what has ...

Islander and Medici trade the European open

Performance figures — Hello Medici and Islander, first of all, thank you for this inspiring thread! Since you are trading the European open for quite some time now, I would like to know what performance figures you achieve by doing this. For ...

Islander and Medici trade the European open