I have been with OANDA for almost 5 years. What is so bad about a market maker? And define real broker?

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As you can see a high win rate does not mean anything. Because you are trading profitability for the quick rush of winning. I have a win rate of ~40% but it is far less pressure to have one winner pay for a few losing trades than the other way ...

Anyone have a trading system w/90% win rate?

If you are trying to bait people into revealing their secrets it is not going to work. For one, stop treating it like a cosmic force that is preventing you from achieving things. If you can't make money, keep staring at the charts until you see what ...

I plan to quit forex!

image Yes it is possible to get out at the right time. These are my trades when the ECB statement hit the market. EUR/USD

I plan to quit forex!

No he is not. What you are discribing is the very dumb concept of random walk. Random walk was thought up by math professors with Ph D. in math and economics who thought they going to win at this game because of their degree. They failed, then ...

I plan to quit forex!

The forex haters are not realists, they are depressed cynics. And Mingary is fishing for winning systems by guilting people into responding to his posts. If he truly did not care about forex he would have stopped. He is consistently posting here for ...

I plan to quit forex!

I so would like to see that trade explorer's withdrawal and deposit numbers.

turned 1K to 4.5K in a week with 4% drawdown

Still got farther than you, because I am not declaring forex a scam because some of my trades tanked. There is nothing you can do about it, you lost in a game where some people do in fact win. And your self-esteem can not handle it. I messed up hard ...

I plan to quit forex!

Without grabbing a calculator isn't Martingale just methodical revenge trading? Also it is a method invented by 18th century casino gamblers. And the average affluent person in that era had probably the math education of a 5th grader.

Does the martingale system really work?

If you can not handle the emotional pressure that does not negate the forex market. The post you are quoting was directed at mingary, not you. And yes, everyone has their secrets how to "make it". And how does that article about price fixing affect ...

I plan to quit forex!

Now you are doing it again, trying to trick someone into revealing their secrets by declaring something as a fact in a way that they could only disprove you if they would reveal their secrets.

I plan to quit forex!

Your problem is that you did not see that you did start blind. You think it was that easy? You just read some books then you earned the right to get rich in forex? You lost a lot of money and did not learn from the mistakes. My guess, overleveraged ...

I plan to quit forex!

I see what you mean, but look at his account. url (I assume that is his account because someone linked it.) Go to custom analysis. Click on ALL, then look at the drawdown. 6 days of -80% in a row, yet he ended up gaining money. Either he had ...

turned 1K to 4.5K in a week with 4% drawdown

Am I reading this right? he had above 80% drawdown for 6 days, per day?

turned 1K to 4.5K in a week with 4% drawdown

So, he cut his account in half last week, then his trade explorer disappears and he calls for more investors? I think he is getting desperate. My guess he is quickly deducting the client 35% profit on good weeks. Looks like he is using his client ...

turned 1K to 4.5K in a week with 4% drawdown

I did not mean to be cynical. If I had left out the desperate part it would not be real. Because in many situations in life people are pressured into a possibly bad deal because there is no other choice or no better choice. Examples being high ...

Twelve widely believed forex myths

What is actually the advantage of scaling in? Isn't it just piling on risk on one decision?

EURUSD

Everything is worth as much as the buyer wants to pay for it, or is desperate enough to pay for it.

Twelve widely believed forex myths

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EURUSD

He is getting bombed on the GBP/USD because his leet counter-trend magic is getting run over by the GBP/USD being in free fall. Now its 41% in the red, kids this happens when you leverage on 400:1. It will come back to bite you.

turned 1K to 4.5K in a week with 4% drawdown