I've not come accross a commission disablement for hedging, usually when there's commission the spread narrows and conversely when there's no commission charged the spread is wide. Quite often you'll get the margin contraed by some good brokers, I ...

Just learned about hedging, does anyone use it for scalping?

The only problem with hedging is the extra trading expenses, two lots of spread and/or commissions. Be aware this adds up over time and really eats into your profits, I used to use it a lot until I realised that!

Just learned about hedging, does anyone use it for scalping?

The debate of market randomness continues...... It's my belief that the market is random, but it's random with occasional Levy Flight! In other words the market moves in a random like fashon for a period of time, then moves in one direction for ...

What I learned after losing $300,000 trading forex

EAs can, and often are, be written to just work on Demo and not on a real account! Or as some who write them here for free, is to make them time-limited...........

MT4 Order Plugin: Trade by lines with risk based lot sizing

I agree pretty much with all that you say, I have been banging on about markets being random around 85% of the time for a good few years now! Many thanks for taking the trouble to post this......

What I learned after losing $300,000 trading forex

You're right that is of course true, but that transition from demo to real money is a huge leap,. Too much for many and they come unstuck

What's the purpose of trading?

Government have to interfere, by regulation. Markets have to be regulated, otherwise the big boys will manipulate everything and leave no space for us small retail guys. Freedome and capitalism sure, but regulation is necessary You trade Futures, ...

What's the purpose of trading?

If you're one of the fortunate traders, then yes

What's the purpose of trading?

Quite often the regulators make no sense, but they like to justify their postion from time to time and say they're protecting us from ourselves

What's the purpose of trading?

On the whole the reduction in leverage was inevitable, as it was out of control! So you could say it was good, in the long term.

What's the purpose of trading?

Trading, and this will be controversial, is a posh form of gambling! All we're doing is picking a direction and basically guess which way the market is going, we add all fancy indicators, technicals and fundamentals to help us, but we're really ...

What's the purpose of trading?

I have learned that trading is all about a series of probabilities. You try to put an edge on your side by all sorts of patterns, support & resistances, indicators, fundamentals etc, but at the end of the day it's all about the numbers. Plus, so ...

What have you learned?

Interesting thread FuturePips, subscribed. I'll try and contribute as time goes on, thank you for starting this!

Trend Trading: It's Not as Difficult as You Think

Global Prime lets you go down to 0.01 Lots on WTI and Brent CFDs

Roadmap - A Way To Read Markets

Yes it is, but you won't make money consistantly. You need to understand how foreign exchange works, the role of central banks, how brokers work, how money flows across the world, the list is pretty endless. In fact you really never stop ...

Is it possible to start Forex trading without knowledge?

Hey Laura, Thanks for reminding us about the lower highs, lower lows bit, easy how the basics get forgotten! Please do discuss basics when you're able, I certainly need reminding of them. Sometimes it's these subtle nuances that can make up the ...

Roadmap - A Way To Read Markets