Thanks for making this available! I've long been envious of your analysts who had these indicators in their charts.

FXCM Discussion

The founder of London Capital Group (broker) says the company did a study on it's 200,000 clients and not even a single loser (over 6 months) turned into a winner later. In another video he says 80% of the clients are losers. Watch the segment at ...

95% Lose in FX is a Myth: % Profitability in the US last year

FIX is for professionals that write their own software or which use custom software developed by others. It's also used by algorithms (EAs) that connect directly to the market and which don't need an MT4 to trade through. It's usually not offered to ...

Best Broker for Extreme Scalper - When Spreads Matter

Regarding FIX, the simple answer is: if you don't know what it is, you don't need it Oanda offers FIX for free (it used to charge $600 per month for it) for $2500 accounts (yes, $2.5k, no 0 missing). Another option is FXCM with a $25k account and ...

Best Broker for Extreme Scalper - When Spreads Matter

They do offer FIX and a custom API (FDK) at no cost (at least for ECN accounts). url However be prepared for an endless email exchange until you resolve anything, since you won't talk with a technical person, but with an intermediary (NZ) which ...

What do you think about FXOpen?

They are a bit shady, but I've withdrawn large profits (liquidated my account and withdrew all + profits) from them and there were no problems (NZ branch). The money was in my bank in 2 days. They tried to convince me to stay, but they didn't push ...

What do you think about FXOpen?

You need to remove frequencies above Nyquist to avoid aliasing before sampling. You cannot do this afterwards, since the aliasing is already embedded in the signal and can't be distinguished from the actual signal anymore: image So shouldn't you ...

Can statistical methods be used to create a trading strategy?

As it happens in high-school I've written a simple FM synthezier with subtractive filtering so I do have a basic understanding of what you are talking about - url You say that you filter at Nyquist, and that is correct in a DSP ADC/DAC scenario, ...

Can statistical methods be used to create a trading strategy?

Presumably when you use a filter to smooth the data, you need to choose the filters parameters (order, cutoff, gain, q factor, ...). Tuning those parameter until you can use the filter to make financial predictions can be considered curve fitting. ...

Can statistical methods be used to create a trading strategy?

Here are some starting points, you can branch from that: url url

Can statistical methods be used to create a trading strategy?

There is a constant stream of people talking about using DSP filters on this forum, and about the particular advantages/disadvantages of different kinds (IIR versus FIR, ...) But what I never saw was a discussion what to do with the data after ...

Can statistical methods be used to create a trading strategy?

If you throw away high frequency data you are losing valuable information. There are techniques for working with non-equally spaced high frequency tick data. For example, the volatility computed this way is much more accurate than when you compute ...

Can statistical methods be used to create a trading strategy?

The chances are 50/50 only if you enter randomly. If you enter according to a market statistical bias that you researched earlier, the chances are better than 50/50. But your average MT4 EA is not a professional statistical trading system. So the ...

Real Reasons why Retail Traders lose money

Hmm, what is this? url

FXCM Discussion

You still trade on optionbit? I looked into their contract, and found this lovely passage: Basically you are not allowed to use any tool to trade with them, or to make them lose money Anyway, what option broker do you use at the moment? What ...

Multi Time Frame Analysis for Spot and Binary Options

Ok, in that case instead of winning 1.9 pips on average, you would win 1.9 pips + spread (around 3.5 pips) without heding. You do realize that you pay an spread each time you hedge? And that spread is reducing your profits.

Hedge like a madman...

Proximus, you're average trade size is currently 1.9 pips. When you hedge you pay an additional spread, so if let's say the typical spread is 1.5, you give away 80% of your profit on your hedges. The smaller your average trade size is, the more your ...

Hedge like a madman...

To come back to the original subject, you do realize that LMAX doesn't allow "hedging" on their professional platforms. See here, "hedging" is allowed only for MT4: url Why? Because no professional platform allows hedging, since it doesn't make ...

Why is hedging not discussed as much?

That guy is talking about a long/short equity strategy. This has nothing to do to being long and short GBP/USD at the same time. url In other videos he laughs at retail trading platforms, and says that a trading platform has to have only 3 things: ...

Hedge like a madman...

In 5 years of trading I noticed this exactly once. Maybe it happened more frequently, since I wasn't specifically looking for it, but in my opinion retail arbitrage is a fools game. The broker has a contract with the LPs. And at retail level usually ...

Why is hedging not discussed as much?