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  • #2,101
  • Sep 16, 2011 12:04pm Sep 16, 2011 12:04pm
Quoting nhen
I have another newb question.. when I adjust the space between candles so I can effectively see more of the chart it squishes price up against the right hand size. In MT4 there was a 'chart shift' feature so you could shift the PA left and have space on the right. Is that possible here?
This is where Strategy Trader is less intuitive than MT4 and our Marketscope Charts from the Trading Station II.

To move your PA to the left, you scroll your mouse over the candles or PA, then left click. You will see white squares display. Then left click again and drag left to increase the space on the right.

I spoke to the platform developers about moving price action and they said they will make it more intuitive in the next build.


- Jason
  • #2,102
  • Sep 17, 2011 8:47am Sep 17, 2011 8:47am
I don't understand the '' GENIUS'' in FXCM that inserted a block in trade station II regarding maximum pairs in the list ..so' you can have only 20 pairs maximum putted on the list......i believe this is done to create problems to the trader if he has to go immediately to a cross to trade....first he fas to delete one and the insert another.......ridicolus.......
  • #2,103
  • Sep 17, 2011 9:08am Sep 17, 2011 9:08am
Quoting Jason Rogers
This is where Strategy Trader is less intuitive than MT4 and our Marketscope Charts from the Trading Station II.

To move your PA to the left, you scroll your mouse over the candles or PA, then left click. You will see white squares display. Then left click again and drag left to increase the space on the right.

I spoke to the platform developers about moving price action and they said they will make it more intuitive in the next build.


- Jason
Hey mate tried this but no love, boxes appear but clicking and dragging left doesn't do anything..

Question, do the Marketscope Charts have tick charts? Seeing as I don't use any of the automated trading features in Strategy Trader perhaps Marketscope would be a better choice for me.
I spoke to your programmer too regarding creating an indi for drawing the lines.
Apparently it was going to be costly, thought about it but it seemed a bit silly to pay a handsome fee for something that I should be able to achieve through the drawings on a chart being included in the template function..
Any chance Marketscope has a template feature that is usable in my case?

Cheers,
Nic
  • #2,104
  • Sep 17, 2011 9:22am Sep 17, 2011 9:22am
Quoting nhen
Hey mate tried this but no love, boxes appear but clicking and dragging left doesn't do anything..

Question, do the Marketscope Charts have tick charts? Seeing as I don't use any of the automated trading features in Strategy Trader perhaps Marketscope would be a better choice for me.
I spoke to your programmer too regarding creating an indi for drawing the lines.
Apparently it was going to be costly, thought about it but it seemed a bit silly to pay a handsome fee for something that I should be able to achieve through the drawings on a chart...
OK just checked Marketscope in TS 2. I can draw lines and they do save as part of the template. But it looks like no tick charts unfortunately.. unless I'm missing them somewhere.
Is there really no way to save drawings in ST as part of a template?.. seems very odd to leave that out of a template feature..
  • #2,105
  • Sep 17, 2011 9:32am Sep 17, 2011 9:32am
Quoting gioviforex
I don't understand the '' GENIUS'' in FXCM that inserted a block in trade station II regarding maximum pairs in the list ..so' you can have only 20 pairs maximum putted on the list......i believe this is done to create problems to the trader if he has to go immediately to a cross to trade....first he fas to delete one and the insert another.......ridicolus.......
No method of having multiple lists, eh?
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  • #2,106
  • Sep 17, 2011 2:31pm Sep 17, 2011 2:31pm
I recently downloaded a demo trial of FXCM's Trading Station and I noticed that FXCM's position management system is first in first out regarding multiple positions on the same pair. For example:

Sell 10000 EURUSD @ 1.45
Sell 10000 EURUSD @ 1.4

Price falls to 1.35 but then retraces to 1.4. I would like to dump my position at 1.4 instead of the position at 1.45. Does FXCM UK operate like this as well? I live in the U.S. and have been demoing different brokers and haven't found this one feature.

Thanks,
zusch
Twitter: @zusch_ -- Preselecting trending pairs, stocks on a weekly basis.
  • #2,107
  • Sep 17, 2011 2:56pm Sep 17, 2011 2:56pm
Quoting gioviforex
I don't understand the '' GENIUS'' in FXCM that inserted a block in trade station II regarding maximum pairs in the list ..so' you can have only 20 pairs maximum putted on the list......i believe this is done to create problems to the trader if he has to go immediately to a cross to trade....first he fas to delete one and the insert another.......ridicolus.......
contact FXCM and they can change the the max amount of pairs.
  • #2,108
  • Sep 17, 2011 3:12pm Sep 17, 2011 3:12pm
Quoting zusch
I recently downloaded a demo trial of FXCM's Trading Station and I noticed that FXCM's position management system is first in first out regarding multiple positions on the same pair. For example:

Sell 10000 EURUSD @ 1.45
Sell 10000 EURUSD @ 1.4

Price falls to 1.35 but then retraces to 1.4. I would like to dump my position at 1.4 instead of the position at 1.45. Does FXCM UK operate like this as well? I live in the U.S. and have been demoing different brokers and haven't found this one feature.

Thanks,
zusch
With FXCM UK, if you was to open a sell position at 1.4500 then another at 1.4000, price drops to 1.3500 then retraces back up to 1.4000 and you decide to dump both positions at 1.4000, you will close both positions for a net profit of 500 pips (1.4500 = 500 pip profit ~ 1.4000 = break even).
  • #2,109
  • Sep 18, 2011 2:05am Sep 18, 2011 2:05am
Quoting fosking
contact FXCM and they can change the the max amount of pairs.
thanks , but in any case is strange that a trader must do this thing...........all brokers in the world don't have this limitation.....
  • #2,110
  • Sep 18, 2011 2:31am Sep 18, 2011 2:31am
Quoting fosking
With FXCM UK, if you was to open a sell position at 1.4500 then another at 1.4000, price drops to 1.3500 then retraces back up to 1.4000 and you decide to dump both positions at 1.4000, you will close both positions for a net profit of 500 pips (1.4500 = 500 pip profit ~ 1.4000 = break even).
That wasn't much help, he said he wanted to close the 2nd trade, not both as you choose to comment on.

At any rate, if he is really concerned to get an answer, why not to direct to FXCM and read the help files? See below.

You will find if you use a demo of MT5, it will bunch all your trades together, so no matter how many times & prices you enter at, you will only ever have 1 line showing your position size & profit / loss; then you can scale out from there, or close all. This is on the same pair now, don't get me wrong, if you have different pairs, of course, you have different positions.

Close a Position (FXCM LLC Accounts)

The NFA compliance rule 2-43(b) requires that all orders must be executed First In First Out (FIFO). That is to say that when you have multiple positions in the same currency pair, the position which was first opened will be the first to be closed. Because you are no longer able to choose which position to close first, FXCM LLC has disabled the “Close” feature in the open positions window. Traders will need to use market orders to close existing positions.

NFA compliance rule 2-43(b) also prohibits hedging. Therefore, clients can no longer hold buy and sell positions on the same currency pair at one time. Because hedging is disabled traders can now offset existing positions by placing market orders. For example, to close a 10K EURUSD buy position, you would simply place a 10K EURUSD sell order.
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  • #2,111
  • Sep 18, 2011 3:13am Sep 18, 2011 3:13am
Quoting Callisto
That wasn't much help, he said he wanted to close the 2nd trade, not both as you choose to comment on.

At any rate, if he is really concerned to get an answer, why not to direct to FXCM and read the help files? See below.

You will find if you use a demo of MT5, it will bunch all your trades together, so no matter how many times & prices you enter at, you will only ever have 1 line showing your position size & profit / loss; then you can scale out from there, or close all. This is on the same pair now, don't get me wrong, if you have...
If he wants to close one of the positions or both, it doesn't matter. FXCM UK is not first in first out. Note he was asking about FXCM UK.
FXCM UK allows hedging also.
  • #2,112
  • Sep 18, 2011 5:11am Sep 18, 2011 5:11am
Quoting fosking
If he wants to close one of the positions or both, it doesn't matter. FXCM UK is not first in first out. Note he was asking about FXCM UK.
FXCM UK allows hedging also.
Thanks, my other advice still stands, read the HELP file

And it does matter if he closes both orders, I think he is trying to protect the open profit from the first trade...
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  • #2,113
  • Sep 18, 2011 12:42pm Sep 18, 2011 12:42pm
Callisto,
Yeah sorry I didn't read the help file I just thought I'd post and the FXCM guy would answer because they want my business. You also did not answer my question or link me to a place I could find my answer. I appreciate your concern but I'm still looking for an answer. Thanks.
Twitter: @zusch_ -- Preselecting trending pairs, stocks on a weekly basis.
  • #2,114
  • Sep 18, 2011 12:45pm Sep 18, 2011 12:45pm
Quoting gioviforex
I don't understand the '' GENIUS'' in FXCM that inserted a block in trade station II regarding maximum pairs in the list ..so' you can have only 20 pairs maximum putted on the list......i believe this is done to create problems to the trader if he has to go immediately to a cross to trade....first he fas to delete one and the insert another.......ridicolus.......
I agree, that can be a hazzle,
I think it has to do with the amount of ram normal computers use,
if you had them all, maybe it could make a computer very slow,
I think the idea is to make it usable for most people,
I read somewhere if you want more pairs you can contact support and they will fix it for you.
Bulls are stupid Animals!especially when Im short!
  • #2,115
  • Sep 18, 2011 10:49pm Sep 18, 2011 10:49pm
I had a demo account with fxcm micro more than 6 months ago. Of course is expired now. However, I try to open another demo with them but I cannot figure out how. Is it demo account still available wiht this broker? Since this broker not offering live chat and email for non live account user. Therefore, I have to ask my question here. Any one please help.
  • #2,116
  • Sep 19, 2011 12:11am Sep 19, 2011 12:11am
Quoting sam2vt
I had a demo account with fxcm micro more than 6 months ago. Of course is expired now. However, I try to open another demo with them but I cannot figure out how. Is it demo account still available wiht this broker? Since this broker not offering live chat and email for non live account user. Therefore, I have to ask my question here. Any one please help.
have a link here, not sure if it will work for you, try and see

http://www.fxcm.com/metatrader.jsp
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  • #2,117
  • Sep 19, 2011 12:36am Sep 19, 2011 12:36am
Quoting sam2vt
I had a demo account with fxcm micro more than 6 months ago. Of course is expired now. However, I try to open another demo with them but I cannot figure out how. Is it demo account still available wiht this broker? Since this broker not offering live chat and email for non live account user. Therefore, I have to ask my question here. Any one please help.
You can find it here.
If you are looking for the Trading Station II layout (like the micro account) it's the forex, oil, gold and stock indices option.
  • #2,118
  • Sep 19, 2011 2:20am Sep 19, 2011 2:20am
Quoting sam2vt
I had a demo account with fxcm micro more than 6 months ago. Of course is expired now. However, I try to open another demo with them but I cannot figure out how. Is it demo account still available wiht this broker? Since this broker not offering live chat and email for non live account user. Therefore, I have to ask my question here. Any one please help.
ofcource they have demo acounts,
they are the largest broker in the world,
and they certanly have a live chat,
look here ---> http://www.fxcm.com/contact-fxcm.jsp
Bulls are stupid Animals!especially when Im short!
  • #2,119
  • Sep 19, 2011 12:22pm Sep 19, 2011 12:22pm
Quoting roughtrader
I read somewhere if you want more pairs you can contact support and they will fix it for you.
You're right. You can have unlimited symbols by request. If this is for a live account, please send an email to [email protected] requesting that your account have unlimited symbol subscription for the dealing rates window and you will be able to add every symbol at the same time.

If this is for a demo account, send an email to me directly at [email protected] with the demo username and I will have it taken care of for you.

- Jason
  • #2,120
  • Sep 19, 2011 12:49pm Sep 19, 2011 12:49pm
Quoting nhen
Hey mate tried this but no love, boxes appear but clicking and dragging left doesn't do anything..

Question, do the Marketscope Charts have tick charts? Seeing as I don't use any of the automated trading features in Strategy Trader perhaps Marketscope would be a better choice for me.
I spoke to your programmer too regarding creating an indi for drawing the lines.
Apparently it was going to be costly, thought about it but it seemed a bit silly to pay a handsome fee for something that I should be able to achieve through the drawings on a chart...
Hi Nic,

Yes, Marketscope has templates, snapshots (save symbol + timeframe) and layouts.

The best option is to create one chart per symbol with the key levels you follow. Then save that chart as a template.

Then open all the charts you use (note MS has a 50 tick chart) and apply the template as you open them! Then save the charts as a layout so they all will have your key horizontal lines.

Should take all but 5 minutes once you get good at it.

I attached the layout you wanted for EUR/USD (charts + lines at key levels). To use it, just download the file, replace the ending ".txt" with ".chd" and then import to marketscope. To import, click file> layout > manage layouts> import and you are there!

I'll fish around to see if i can find a free indicator for you.

Let me know if you have more questions.


- Jason
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