This is not going to pretty for any longs.

EURUSD

The liquidity situation is set for a fall to 1.020 if this persists.

EURUSD

Stay short on bounces under 93.45

AUD/JPY

What was the reasoning for removing trade analytics from tools available? That was one of the more important of all that was listed. That seems counter intuitive to promoting trader success.

OANDA Discussion

Volume in your feed is tick volume and nothing more. I would explain if you seemed like a serious trader. If your excel sheets make you money that's good for you. Data entry is not my thing, I'm a trader. No thank you.

Why 1:30 PM CBOE time is not a good time to trade

I think you took the post out of context. As the last sentence stated, it goes with all sessions.

Why 1:30 PM CBOE time is not a good time to trade

Liquidity in terms of market making is not cut and dry, it's an entire industry. Also, the forex market is dissimilar than the equities in that respect. Retail traders' ideas of it are predominantly hearsay or layman's knowledge at best.

Why 1:30 PM CBOE time is not a good time to trade

I subscribe to prime level depth and am speaking from experience. You apt to your own opinions and they are wrong. There's many nuances to liquidity and how it effects price that people like you just don't know. Regardless I'm not here to convince ...

Why 1:30 PM CBOE time is not a good time to trade

Biggest factor is liquidity and not many people, even the gurus even talk or know about it. Simply, are committed traders behind the move?...and not to get overly cynical, is it a liquidity pull(larger traders spike the market to hit stops or any ...

Differences between a strong breakout vs a fakeout

You need trade enough to feel pressure. You need to get used to it...you never really completely do. So it needs to be a component to trading.

Why should I trade on a cent account?

Wow, they actually changed my title. It used to say Oanda outage countdown thread... Yes, but it still happens. They know it happens all the time coincidentally when it's easy money. It's been happening since the years I've been with them. I'm ...

Broker outage countdown thread

Wait...I didn't see that. He was down 50%?? last week

High Yield Grid Manual Strategy

Terribly

Alpari demo account, is it in real real time?

No straight broker uses more than 100% even then 50 is tops. Prime liquidity will not take on that risk and provide liquidity for that shop. Without a doubt that broker is a bucket. It is absolute certain that broker is running a B-book and is ...

People still trade forex?

Question Ton, Regarding Oanda's A-book, do you send client tags with an A book customer's orders to the liquidity provider handling that client's flow?

OANDA Discussion

How do you get Renko from this thread? Noise...the noise I see is all the usual detractors trying to start arguments.

Everyone I want you to look at this

This is true and this is good. You need to realize, accept it, move beyond it by using it as an advantage. People don't realize this or are afraid to believe it. The part about unpredictability is a bit off.

People still trade forex?

I did add more to the position and as you saw it was a good trade of about 50 pips and repeated the move last night. The key takeaway is: Over 90% of the market's moves are hollow/random moves. In a nutshell, the algorithm is just looking for ...

NZD/JPY