Why do you think that such a question is foolish? Do you think that this or any similar scenario is impossible? The question is quite simple... if you were in that situation, would you steal or not? The person in that hypothetical scenario is you so ...

The Ethics of Trading - Is Trading Parasitic?

Hypothetically... your children are starving to death and there is a man with plenty of food, a lot more than he needs, but he refuses to give you some of that food to feed your kids. Now a question for you (and i would also like to hear what ...

The Ethics of Trading - Is Trading Parasitic?

Hmm i have to disagree. In my humble opinion "God" (for a lack of better word) has nothing to do with this.

The Ethics of Trading - Is Trading Parasitic?

let us follow this argument and see where it leads us. you claim that relative morality equals to no morality at all (if i can substitute the term "belief in nothing" with the term "no morality"). that would mean, that if there is any morality at ...

The Ethics of Trading - Is Trading Parasitic?

there seems to be a lot of confusion what the term "random" actually means. i suggest that, before you argue about randomness of the markets, you first agree on a definition of what "random" means. some of you seem to define "random" as something ...

Long term Profits within Negative Expectancy

Welcome! This place has a huge amount of information, that is for sure. But quantity doesn't equal quality. Unfortunately most of the information you will find is at best mediocre, lot of it is just BS and some of it is downright dangerous. So you ...

Forex Mentors - The Best Investment You Can Make?

it sure as hell isn't mine

Long term Profits within Negative Expectancy

one man's ranging price action is another man's price action full of many up and down trends.

Trending and Ranging

unless you fiddled with the system in some way that was not part of the plan of how the system should be maintained the ego was not involved. (the maintainance could for example include a regular review and adjustment of parameters). now to the ...

Long term Profits within Negative Expectancy

essentially i agree with what you are saying. the question is how often you "re-balance" your position so your actual net position equals your desired net position. the more frequent you re-balance the more trading costs in form of commissions, ...

Important – Why systems are profitable (or not)

EA stands for Expert Advisor. It is a term used in connection with the Metatrader trading platforn. url

The Perfect EA? your thoughts.

indeed. unfortunately a trader can't exploit this pattern to make a profit. the profit is made by the sellers of those EAs.

The Perfect EA? your thoughts.

wrong, you assume that the EA has some inverted predictive ability, but it is much more likely that it has no predictive ability at all... zero predictive ability reversed still equals zero predictive ability. Past results be it positive or negative ...

The Perfect EA? your thoughts.

well.. it does not. just compare the list of trades that this EA supposedly made with where the prices were (including the spread) on some interbank feed and you will see that the prices reported in the statistic of this EA are a fantasy. Those ...

what do you think about this EA??

Hi Alex, you can use the API that comes with Navigator to download history of level one tick data if level one data is sufficient for you. I need level two data so that is not an option for me, therefore i have to harvest the data myself. I have ...

MBT/EFX Quote Data

I will have to check out the API. It seems that the records contain only level one data, no level two... but i would have to get a data sample to check it out. Shrike, can you comment on the quality of the data? How far back does it go? Any gaps or ...

MBT/EFX Quote Data

MBT/EFX Quote Data — Bump! After one year, the request/offer is still actual.

MBT/EFX Quote Data

why should they build an extra wrapper with some custom API around an industry standard protocol? anyway, if you need a fix client implementation then search the net... there are plenty out there. For example url

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

They already did. See url

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

spikes — My guess is that these orders were generated by some malfunctioning automated system because the time spans between the trades are two and one hour exactly to the second. As there is no central exchange for forex spot trading, there ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction