unfortunately the forex market can not help you make easy transfers. if you deposit USD at a broker, you can not pull out CAD. your account remains USD denominated. forex trading can, however, help you elliminate the exchange rate risk between your ...

Forex For Converting Funds?

there are only a few guys in market wizards that trade forex. but that doesnt matter. trading is trading is trading. for a good start i would read one market wizard books, reminiscences of a stock operator, and Van Tharp's TYWTFF... ...

Which FX Trading Course/System is Good for newbies?

your right fiji, the post is deleted. you know the old saying "give them an inch and they take a mile"? LOL jet, i know you are a good guy and so do the other. but lets draw the line with your illegal "linked" signature . thanks buddy.

Which FX Trading Course/System is Good for newbies?

who was the market wizard who made the sunglasses metaphor? i cant find it now. i will have to reread that interview to comment on the true meaning of his comments. i was under the impression that he meant people think too highly of indicators, like ...

questions from a future quant

i once thought this too. but then it dawned on me one day that small traders, especially those learning to trade, are a VERY small % of the volume out there. id guess that the percentage of volume is less than 0.01%. so, where is the reward for ...

questions from a future quant

it makes perfect sense. the computer should figure out if you are doing a limit or stop order. but as you mentioned, the stop or limit designation does put an extra check on the order so that you are less likely to make a mistake. but there are less ...

Basic Questions about Limit Orders

ya know, i was thinking about this and you are absolutely right. volatility is just another way of looking at price. and with that line of thinking, volatility is my favorite indicator.

questions from a future quant

id bet that they are just operating under a different name because there is so much bad stuff about 4x Made Easy on the web as for which broker is best, i can honestly tell you that every one of our preferred brokers is reputable. flip through ...

Late Night Channel Flipping ... and then some.

they dont offer mini trading, and thats as much as i need to know. i need mini trading for better position sizing resolution.

Trading with Dukascopy

well i guess you could make that argument. but range is special because it tells you about the volatility, or the "level of action". so i guess the argument is, is volatility just another way of looking at price? or can it be considered indpendent ...

questions from a future quant

this describes exactly the approach i am singing about. as for the data we have in trading, i know of three (that i am willing to list here) catagories that are continuous... price volume range

questions from a future quant

gotcha. the "subset" of patterns i am looking are patterns caused by events. i find that when a pattern is caused by a event it is rooted in crowd psychology and will persist over time (ie it is predictable). i do trade 123 formations, and those are ...

questions from a future quant

good question matt. unfortunately there is not a clear path to becoming a successful trader as there is a professor. the best resource to learn of the different paths is by reading Market Wizards. its basically a book about the different paths ...

How did you begin trading?

yeah man this has happened to me more than once, im ashamed to say. as a matter of fact, it happened to me on the 4th!

FXSol Holiday Trading Hours

yeah i guess you are right here, its related to pattern recognition. inicators are not about pattern recognition, thats really the difference. when you say pattern recognition i think of "head and shoulders" or "flag" formations. thats not at all ...

questions from a future quant

is that really how they predict the weather??? how do you know that? man, i might be studing weather patterns for the next couple weeks!

questions from a future quant

thats the most simple way i have ever heard this explained. nice narafa!

Basic Questions about Limit Orders

TradeStation measures tick volume automatically. you could also use the volume from EC (euro futures contract). the futures contract mimics the EURUSD almost exactly. there is a futures contract for every major pair.

Calculating Acc/Dist

LOL well, CARMAX doesnt sound so bad!

the most important system statistic > ROMAD

haha, well if you had posted the layman's explanation, i would have posted the quant version that you posted

Average True Range