What are order volumes determined by? I would submit that order volume is determined by something else and that something else is determined by Fear & Greed. Moreover, both Fear and Greed are determined by someone else. There are Market Makers and ...

What are the big Ideas in successful trading?

Stop directional trading. Stop naked trading. Stop taking a side in the market. Learn how to create your own Hybrid Straddles and Strangles while trading Spot Forex without regard for market direction. It is like learning how to walk across rice ...

What are the big Ideas in successful trading?

The issue is not how they "act" in-house but rather how they are "registered" with the SEC. If they are a BD, then by the SEC stated deadline they will be out of the "Retail Forex" business. Emphasis on the word "Retail." This is where it all began ...

SEC bans Broker-Dealers from retail forex transactions

Jason, You have done a fabulous job of replying to everyone's question except mine. Mine is the only recent post in this thread showing an actual Feed Choke Taking place right before your eyes and the follow-up "clean-up job" having been performed ...

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Trading should not be like a Box of Chocolates. You should know what you are going to get: image Note 1: Though I could post these all day long and in just about any market, I don't have the time to do so. This random Short Entry is somewhat late, ...

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Last post. You cannot dictate to the market what it should do. But, you can rely upon the market to maintain its Structural Integrity. Any market that fails to demonstrate a long history of maintaining its Structural Integrity, if I were a ...

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The size of that big Geo-Structure leaves clues bout Timing. Either you are going to get off your butts and figure out WHY the market does what it does, or you will forever be saying to yourselves: "This is bullshit. The entire market is bullshit ...

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The OP asked for help. Where's the help? Getting outside the box of convention might help. At the very least, it will cause the OP to start looking at price dynamics different than he used to and that just might be the thing he needs to get beyond ...

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I wonder what the heck I should be doing with the EURUSD? image The OP asked for help. Help the OP. Give him a reason to be inspired, motivated and hopeful based on empirically tested and proven methodologies that can get him to turn the corner. ...

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Refocus on what the OP needs help with. The OP was looking for help. Nobody comes to a trading forum stating that they plan to quit, unless they are looking for help. Clearly, he screaming for help and all I see in this thread is a bunch of ...

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Even with results and evidence posted directly under the nose of some, there will still be people who cannot read, cannot comprehend what they've read and cannot fathom ever thinking outside the box of convention: image It is tantamount to jumping ...

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Both US Real and US Demo for EURUSD show two completely different charts at the M1 level on my end. FXCM had no explanation for it on the phone a moment ago. They claimed that they had problems with their US Real server. I asked why the US Demo and ...

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This gets more interesting by the day. Now, the 3/10/2016 EURUSD M1 charts looks completely different today (3/14/2016) than it did just one second before the Feed Choke on last Thursday. This charts not only shows no gap in data, but it shows a ...

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Insufficient volume and a lack of depth in trade-able instruments has traditionally been the problem for my trading style. Though the depth of instruments has improved over time, I would also have platform problems that have yet to be resolved in a ...

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I would say very close. Risk Mitigation is probably the first order of business. Very close again. I would say that the a really good system redefines the definition of risk and the very best system actually turns risk into potential reward, thus ...

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I've been trading Spot FX for quite a while. I have recovered the roughly $28k that I lost, finally got off Retail Bucket Shop trading platforms, have been trading through a Prime Broker on two (2) different "commercial/institutional" trading ...

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Jason Rogers, Still waiting on an answer for what caused this to happen yesterday (3/10/2016). This kind of platform behavior is persistent and goes well beyond the previous excuses given over the years. Something is causing this to happen precisely ...

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I don't know. Maybe he's the kind of guy who scream Feed Choked when FXCM stops streaming live data to his platform, essentially locking him out of participating in the market that is supposed to be open "24hrs a day, 7 days a week." But, what the ...

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