Haha good choice! Thanks jamjamjam, for mentioning the movie Pi. Watching it now and greatly enjoying it!

The best movie about trading

Which actors/actresses would you cast?

The best movie about trading

I wonder which volume you're referring to. I hope not the worst proxy of volume called tick volume. I usually have MACD histogram and RSI on my charts, with standard parameter settings. I don't use them for signals though.

Your top 3 indicators

I'm not sure what katongogo said is totally correct. I'm no expert, but the way I always understood it is that (in the US), you can manage up to a certain number of accounts without any license. However, if you manage more, you need to get certain ...

Legality of forex fund management in Australia

I think markets move way faster. Depending on the things you've mentioined (mainly the absense of more major EMU skeletons coming out of the closet), I believe we could see 1.5 before the summer holidays.

The "End Of QE2" Trade

Hehe, you´re profile says you have over 5 years of trading experience. I wonder what the account statements looked like the other 1819 or more weeks Anyway, congratulations on your recent performance.

Reality check - do small FX accounts inevitably stay small?

Consider this: a bubble is developing as prices diverge from fundamental values. The bubble is growing through sustained excessive optimism and feedback channels, but you know that one day this optimism will end, and prices will drop to, or even ...

Averaging Down

Commercial forum - Under Evaluation apparently...

John Dace Course

What if you can do both? Rob a bank, and then trade FX - either in jail or in your mansion.

What is easier, robbing a bank or trading profitably?

Concerning a carry trade, I would like to point out the following. People often talk about spreads when they talk about trade costs. Now lets consider Alpari UK, which is quite a respectable retail broker. Its rollover policy can be found at url ...

Silent Service Method

I checked the file, and the edge comes from the doubling-halfing rule of the coin flip game. This edge isn't present in trading, as profits and losses are one-for-one.

who has series of random generated price data?

It takes $1,000,000,000 to change prices 0.44%. 80% of this effect persists indefinitely.

Amount of money to move the market

Good post. I was thinking the same thing: just hold assets in the currency you spend. However, this "safe haven" may also be a guard against inflation (e.g. gold). Thus it may be a useful discussion anyway. If you think about the market mechanisms ...

Seeking an "untouchable" Haven for Cash

Increase in M2 leads to inflation, inflation leads to expected currency depreciation. Expected currency depreciation leads to lower expected rate of return on US investments, resulting in less capital inflows. US has a massive trade deficit, which ...

Seeking an "untouchable" Haven for Cash

I think you're right, that is probably what he ment. As for the line charts, they generally use close values for their data points, and consequently certain timeframes also appear differently depending on the timezone (e.g. 4h, daily). Same goes for ...

Systematic trading

You're right. Also, this "sample" in no way is a good representation of the population.

Order Flow - Finding cluster of stops on chart

I posit that in this "efficient market era", it is still possible to make money watching the ticker alone.

"You cannot make money (in the long run) from a price chart alone"

Hey Chris, what about the USDCHF short you entered earlier? Did you close it out already, or are you now net EURCHF short? (Depending on the respective position sizes). Regards

Silent Service Method

nano-lot

Building a database - what are units called?

In true markets it is the case that if you place limit orders - and essentially make the market - the bid/ask spread is not paid. This is not the case for retail forex brokers in general though. So to answer your questions: respectively yes and no.

Limit orders and bid/ask spread