Well, with the business model of IC Markets (and other STP brokers) they actually benefit if you as a trader are successful, since if you grow your account, you are likely to increase your trading volume and that is how they make money i.e. from ...

IC Markets

I have had an account with IC Markets for close to a year and my experience appears very different from yours. Compared to other brokers I have tried, I get the fastest execution time with IC Markets and have typically had good experience with their ...

IC Markets

FXOpen has an overview of how their liquidity aggregation works and if what they say is true, then that can be classified as an ECN. url FYI, I have never used FXOpen in any way, real or demo, so I do not endorse them in any way. I am just ...

IC Markets

There is unfortunately a misconception regarding most ECN brokers using Metatrader and the slippage parameter. Using Metatrader with an ECN broker that uses a bridge to the LPs, once an order hits the bridge, regardless of whether it is a market, ...

IC Markets

Arav007, First of all, if you get requotes at all, change broker ASAP. It is very unlikely that such a broker offers the best, i.e. most fair, trading environment. IMO, if for whatever reason you don't have access to STP/ECN brokers where you ...

How to explain this characteristic of a Broker?

Thanks.

Any ECN brokers with MT4?

These days, given the availability of STP brokers (if not true ECNs) there is absolutely no reason to trade with a broker where requotes would occur. Obviously you can and will get slippage with an STP or ECN broker but an order will never be ...

How to explain this characteristic of a Broker?

I want to give credit to SKovalyov for pointing out the difference between an STP broker and and ECN broker. Depending on how you trade, it could make a big difference. IC Markets, which is a broker I like and use, is both an STP broker and an ECN, ...

Any ECN brokers with MT4?

When comparing cTrader and Metatrader when it comes to Stop and Take Profit orders, keep in mind that a Take Profit order is actually a limit order. My understanding is that on CTrader, your limit orders are actually real limit orders so that you ...

cTrader: features and advantages

In my opinion, if you have developed something proprietary like this, i.e. where you have essentially "created" data that is not publicly available in an easily digestible format, the fewer you share it with, the more likely it is that you will ...

Real Volume Indicator

I suggest using SCITE-MQL, much superior editor to the old Metaeditor.

Stand alone MetaEditor and compiler

MapleLeaf, Now you are just playing stupid. The point that you must have realized I was making is that no one can be profitable every month but it is also totally irrelevant when determining if you can make a living off of forex trading. I can make ...

95% traders go broke, only 5% survive

MapleLeaf, As you very well know you could set the monthly number to $100 and still get no takers for your bet since it is (deliberately?) set up in such a way that the unavoidable volatility of any trading system will virtually guarantee that a ...

95% traders go broke, only 5% survive

You can google "R programming language"

MT4 New build 600 is released

MapleLeaf, You never responded to my post regarding your bet in another thread. url

95% traders go broke, only 5% survive

broketrader, I will second that. Great thread so far. I am not new to programming but I am new to C++/MQL5 (or whatever the build 600+ MQL language is) so this has been very helpful. I sincerely hope you will keep it going.

Learn New MQL Coding

Amen.

How much did you earn last year (2012) in Forex?

rockit, I am not a professional programmer by any measure so hence my question. What you say makes logical sense i.e. that "else" should reflect the exception i.e. non-typical result. However, are you saying that it makes a difference in terms of ...

Learn New MQL Coding

I like the initiative since I have zero experience in coding in c++ and now seems as good a time as any to start learning that and Mql4.5

Learn New MQL Coding