Allow me to correct. Your entire mt4 datafeed was down for 20 minutes one time, and about 40 minutes another time. There is a difference between a datacenter and the trading server where orders are actually handled. Your trading server went down. If ...

Vantage FX Broker Discussion

See what I mean? No acknowledgement of the downtime and (optionally) what steps were taken to prevent it in the future. I advise you not to wait for a public relations nightmare before you own up to your mistakes promptly. VantageFX, how long does ...

Vantage FX Broker Discussion

There were two separate occassions last week where VantageFX live servers went down for about 15-30 minutes at a time for no apparent reason. I was trading the PRO account at the time. I can't say that this never happens to any broker. But it was ...

Vantage FX Broker Discussion

Which country is doing this?

Does the martingale system really work?

Is there any plans for XeMarkets to integrate with Tradeo social network?

XM

It is very common to have these daily statements from mt4 brokers and they all have the same format, including that 24 hour notice at the bottom. You always get the monthly statement, but the daily statement is only if there is any transaction ...

GoMarkets Discussion

That would be a needed The experts tab often contains much more unneeded logging whereas the alerts window can be customized with only the alerts that you want.

MT4, Reopen Alert Window

Especially with MT4 (processes one ticket at a time), you really want STP. Then all that matters is the slippage, which will be minimal. For the retail clients, what matters is that they get you filled and liquidated with no funny business. If I can ...

XM

They recently made their market watch time zone shift so that it is in line with NYC open/close times. This means 5 daily candlestick bars for the 5 days per week. The VantageFX pro account has been excellent in my experience. not uncommon to see ...

Vantage FX Broker Discussion

It's cash settled (no physical delivery), but it doesn't matter what type of product we are speculating here. Futures has traditionally had huge amounts of gearing regularly exceeding 1:50 at the exchange level depending on the product traded, plus ...

Any brokers offering high leverage accounts to US citizens?

You can adjust the TP so that you take off more than 1 unit. Say you want to net 15-20 units in the basket, but only if the range exceeds a certain amount (and you have added x number of positions). It makes a lot more sense this way, especially ...

Does the martingale system really work?

You are correct. Hanover covered this and there is also a good article on the Wizard of Odds that covers this. The flip side to what you say is that if your entry method has an edge (positive expectancy), then martingale or piling on the aggression ...

Does the martingale system really work?

Thanks. I must have missed that. But it is now approaching November. Is the previous risk assessment still valid? I thought the SNB already made their decision in Sept.

GoMarkets Discussion

Instead of managing each trade with its own separate TP and SL, trade the entire group of trades as one basket, and then close out the basket when a net TP has been reached. You need a closeAll tool like Profitkeeper that allows you to do this based ...

Does the martingale system really work?

Close out all of your windows that startup with a new installation of ibfx mt4. Then, go to options > chart > max bars in chart should be set to 5000 or less whenever possible. Another hack is to ''hide all' symbols in the market watch that you are ...

IBFX - Aussie

i understand that VantageFX has completely removed the EURCHF pair from streaming quotes on the pro account. Why is this done, and what can we do to bring it back?

Vantage FX Broker Discussion

Can someone comment on why gomarkets has removed EURCHF from live trading? I am 100% positive that I selected 'show all' in the market watch. Every other CHF cross is available except EURCHF. I noticed another broker has done this as well, but with ...

GoMarkets Discussion

I actually have a spreadsheet that focuses on grid style entries. You have to input the values manually, but you get the idea that you can measure the total amount of trade positions that you average, how much margin level and total range of prices ...

Does the martingale system really work?

You cannot fix your risk at 1%. Why? Because a tsunami-like event will blow through your stop loss if you are on the 'wrong' side of the trade anyway. The idea behind having fixed stop losses (or any trading strategy) is that you will overall ...

Does the martingale system really work?

So what about older accounts or existing live traders who open a new account? BTW, decent execution on the micro account. Is there a maximum account balance on the live micro account?

XM