EU is benefiting from the weakened euro. The cheaper is the euro the lower is the competition for the goods produced by Germany, France, Italy and other EU exporters.

S&P lowers Greece's, Portugal and Spain's rating

Tools->Options->Charts->Max. bars in chart

How to change number of bars displayed in Metatrader?

1. Understanding how the market works. 2. Getting disciplined. Really disciplined. 3. Sticking to a safe money management strategy. 4. Sticking to a profitable strategy (and developing one).

the Major problems for forex traders?

You can find the historical interest rates on the central banks' sites. You can also find all changes in the interest rates for the major central banks in this table: url It's interactive. You have to use arrows to go "back in time" and see the ...

Need Data, Please Help

CIA World Factbook will probably help you here, if you don't need the monthly data, of course.

Need Data, Please Help

I mostly do the chart analysis with the chart patterns, support and resistance levels and Fibonacci retracements. No technical indicators are usually used.

Which time frame and why?

The timeframe choice depends on the trading style. M15/M30 is useless if you are a long-term trader and leave your positions open for weeks. And if you are a scalper even M1 can be too high timeframe. As for me, I trade on D1/W1.

Which time frame and why?

Maybe that was just luck and maybe your broker has some non-standard order execution model. Or it's just a bucket shop and they don't need to fill the orders at the market prices .

what happens when we have GAP?

It will be filled at a market price when the markets are open. So, you can lose more than your SL or win more than your TP.

what happens when we have GAP?

And what are these distinct characteristics? Actually, I find gold to be one of the most difficult instruments to trade, it's so speculative in nature and is influenced by so many factors that it's almost impossible to predict it using the ...

Gold Discussion

If you want to share them for fun then it's probably a bad idea. If you need to share them for some reason, then the risks are negligible. That depends on your broker and its security policy. And, if you can choose your password, on you too.

Safety and Disclosure

Anything - from U.S./Germany/China/Australia or a major global bank bankrupting to some massive terrorist attack.

rollover buy for AUD/USD

MT4 Volume displays how many ticks (new prices) there were in a bar. So, that can display the market's "jumpiness" of some kind.

Looking for this indicator

Yes, but the unexpected problems are always... unexpected, you know?

rollover buy for AUD/USD

It's a common carry trade position. You'll probably get a lot of profit from it in the medium-term period. But be careful, if something wrong will happen with the global economy, there might be huge downward movement in this pair.

rollover buy for AUD/USD

Those are very strange equations. Your profit/loss in pips is really Sold Price (- minus) Current Price = Total A (it's 27 pips in your case by the way). If by Total И you mean the amount in USD which you get, you just have to multiply it by the ...

Need help in calculating profit/loss

MT4 strategy tester.

what do you use to backtest EA's?

Of course there is. For USD/JPY you have to divide it by the current USD/JPY Ask price (because you have to buy USD with the JPY which you get for positions in USD/JPY), but normalized by 100 because of the difference in the amount of digits in ...

pip values

Yes, it's 88 if you like rounded values and in pips. It's OK for EUR/USD to vary by 0.0137 during a period and for USD/JPY to vary by 0.8885 during a period. But MetaQuotes should have added "digits" input parameter to make things more clear.

How to use ATR Indicator?

The ATR indicator shows the average range of change for the currency pair during the certain period, so, the whole value should be used. I don't know how can ATR(14) show something like 1.2345 for EUR/USD. On a daily chart it currently shows 0.0135 ...

How to use ATR Indicator?