You don't let your losses get that far. You stop out at a smaller profit, break even or a smaller loss. Every system has its mechanical limits.

Does the martingale system really work?

I went back and read your original complaint. I'm not sure how many times your EA is allowed to reattempt an order (I can set mine to as many as I want and can space out how many milliseconds between retries), but typically 3-5 retries with 500-3000 ...

XM

If this is true, what about people who would short the market? Will trading be allowed that day?

Vantage FX Broker Discussion

1) You don't know when the breakout will occur. 2) By the time you realize the market is moving sideways (because it has to move sideways first before you can confirm it is moving sideways), a new breakout is much more likely to occur. Much more ...

Does the martingale system really work?

Here is the official email:

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

I can verify the old tick bug on live acct....i see it in the journal occasionally. i'm at the nyc datacenter. I dont get this error too much with other brokers. The windows OS time should have nothing to do with it..... i have several different ...

XM

Thanks. I think I know the real reason why the comment period was closed so early. Perhaps they did not want a repeat of what happened earlier with 1:10 leverage proposal where they received 1000s of comments. It may not have been so many, but ...

CFTC Comment Period on Additional Customer Protections

Mt4 actually missed the boat when they chose to allow separate order ticket tracking in the terminal. The ONLY reason why average position was not done per same symbol for mt4 is because of the original intent of mt4: for brokers to make their own ...

LMAX = revolution?!?

That's bizarre, as I thought the comments were open until October. Oh, btw, where can someone view existing comments? It looks like the docket is removed altogether. There is supposed to be a place where you can view comments even if the commenting ...

CFTC Comment Period on Additional Customer Protections

All gov't regulation when proposing new rules seek feedback from public. From the local city hall all the way up to federal gov't. Some of the larger industries have entire organizations that will lobby on your behalf. Forex doesn't seem to have any ...

CFTC Comment Period on Additional Customer Protections

I must agree with FXCM here. Too bad more US-based brokers are not encouraging their clients to comment on these issues. When the previous major public commenting took place (the 10:1 leverage, et al), many brokers issued press release encouraging ...

CFTC Comment Period on Additional Customer Protections

In regards to cutting losses and moving on: Perhaps that ecosystem is much more valuable that we think. It's kind of like a marriage. Your partner may do what you want them to do 70%-80% of the time, and it may have taken years to get the ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

I usually make arguments like this when mt5 is compared to mt4. I always say that mt5 is what mt4 should have been first time around in terms of functionality. I agree with you that mt4 was designed for market makers initially and had to do a lot of ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

The question is why would the mt4 have so many problems? It would be nice if Justin chimed in here. A port to the desktop platform would require re-programming indicators.

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

As I stated on another thread, it actually does not have to be gov't backed insurance. It can be private insurance. Where can someone enter comments on the various roundtables/hearings?

US broker PFGBest freezes funds after founder's suicide attempt

You know to be honest, I agree with you when you put it in this light. Outside of segregation and insurance (which could be a private or industry-funded, not gov't funded), I really didn't want much else. I wanted these things in place way back when ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

Thanks for the update. But the insurance could be limited to covering the actual account balances of the trader accounts, not the underlying assets. The insurance premium could be partially funded by a separate exchange fee, partially funded by ...

US broker PFGBest freezes funds after founder's suicide attempt

good starting list. I am particularly interested in the insurances of client funds. That seems to be something that the NFA/CFTC is intentionally avoiding. Fraud or no fraud, can the client funds be rapidly recovered? It would have been ...

US broker PFGBest freezes funds after founder's suicide attempt

Interesting....does the trader get this for free also, or is the trader still charged withdraw fee?

GFT Forex Discussion

i just read the email. In practical terms, what actual additional protections do traders have now? I didn't see any Everyone from regulators to brokers are dancing around the only true method to protect client funds: combination of ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction