sorry to hear of your losses too. rgaulli is very right in that becoming a good trader takes time. a great place to start to learn about different trade ideas is Van Tharp's book TYWTFF. read, study, research, you will get your money back.

How do you decide your trades?

joe, there are a number of tradestation consultants that are in the business of doing exactly what you are looking for. they charge $50-$100 an hour. TS has an entire listing of these EL consultants on their website.

Trading System help needed

most brokers should be open. but your right in that the volume will be light as most US firms will be out.

Forex Brokers Open on Presidents' Day?

for analysis i use TradeStation. it is a very powerful backtesting platform, but beware the learning curve is steep. nontheless, this is the professional's tool of choice. for order execution, i trade with a number of firms. but i only trade with ...

What trading platforms is everyone using?

fiji how long ago was it that you worked with Rob?

forex mentoring programs

yeah Green is the best out there for trader tax info. when you need an accountant and lawyer, they are great for that too.

Beginner Questions

looks VERY shady to me!

Forex Broker ??

check out the FF Preferred Brokers... ive trade with them all and they are all excellent firms.

Brokers and their Location

i concur, the more i learn about this Rob Booker the more i like him.

forex mentoring programs

i like your thinking here. personally i think the dollar is looking at 1.4000 vs. euro. too many fundamentals against it. i cant see any reason the dollar should be strengthening again, nothing has really changed in the last few weeks. its just the ...

Euro/Dollar discussion

this is a worthy cause, and youve shown some real creativity in finding ways to get some random data. but why not just buy some data? you can get tick data for the last 10 years for under $100. i get mine from Disk Trading and it imports into ...

A smart trading system?

welcome to the forum! interesting to hear there are trading parallels in and bioinformatics. man, if you understand that stuff, trading should be a breeze can you explain what you mean by "HMMs." what parameters are you thinking of measuring? it ...

A smart trading system?

this would surely be a new spin on "trading the news."

A smart trading system?

fxsolutions is a really good broker IMHO. a good friend of mine is an IB for them, email me if you want me to get you in touch with him.

brokers

both GFT and Forex.com are excellent brokers. check out the new Preferred Broker section to see their profile...

brokers

that is really a great book, maybe the best i have ever read financial or otherwise. the bucket shops of yesterday are the same as today. to bucket a trade means to take the other side instead of passing it through to the market. you asked why the ...

How do broker's make money??

dave you have it right on. if you go long the GBPUSD, you will get paid one pip per day to hold the position, and 3 pips on wednesdays (thats triple rollover day for most brokers). there is money to be extracted from this extra edge. ive never got ...

Profiting from interest rate differentials.

are you looking for a mini account? if so, try Forex.com. i think they have an excellent all around package. never know, you may even win the mini

CBFX Bank not NFA member?

those charts are not coming from the Forex.com rates. i noticed this too. i have never seen any quotes that flutter quite as much as the forex.com charts.

Forex.com

hmmm... i wouldnt call this fraud. maybe more like a quark in their platform. you would have no reason to enter orders like you are suggesting. it would have to be an error on your part. errors can cost a lot, you have to be very careful to always ...

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