I'm no expert but just a suggestion because i think i know where you are at. You probably already know more than you realise. Spend some time away from the forum and reading this stuff. Try to come up with 1 idea of a situation with an inefficiency ...

Order Flow - Achieving the mindset

I've only been able to find rumours or estimates of the option sizes not actual data, but you are looking in the right direction You will find a large part of what you are looking for here from post 568 and the few pages afterwards url

How to use option expiration data for trading spot fx?

Just to give some perspective on the size of the cyclone about to hit Australia, it's almost as big as the USA: url Copper prices hitting record highs holding it up for the moment though...

AUD/USD

As Scotty B said, the news is less important than what people's expectation of the news is. If 95% of people think interest rates will increase by .25% and they do then there will be no change to price. If 95% of people think interest rates will ...

trying to understand news in respect to trading

I think IFR and other news services rumours/orderboards provide what is common knowledge within the interbank market. This creates market expectation or sentiment but also allows players to adjust their strategies in the expection of what others ...

Order Flow - Finding cluster of stops on chart

Maybe i'm wrong (someone please correct me if i am), but this is how i read it

Order Flow - Finding cluster of stops on chart

Implication: So if price moves one way quickly (say up), then reverses quickly (down), MarketMaker is offering liquidity he is unable to pass on. So if price keeps going down he has to liquidate at some stage at a price worse than he is offering or ...

Order Flow - Finding cluster of stops on chart

I've only really looked at EUR/USD, USD/JPY, GBP/USD & AUS/USD In my opinion USD/JPY gives the most respect to round numbers, but will spend alot if time not doing a whole lot. I would say the cleanest pair is EUR/USD, the high liquidity means less ...

Cleanest technical pairs?

I agree, go with go, but still keep your other broker. Go's spread increase alot during news times, if you compare the range of the candle on the hour of the Fed you will notice it's probably a larger range than your current broker, so more likely ...

AUD/USD

I have an Oanda demo for the news, Gomarkets spreads are better

AUD/USD

I've got accounts with CMC and Go, i trade pretty much soley with go now. MT4, spreads are always better except for AUDUSD on very rare occasions. Awesome customer service too. Only problem i had is you can't deposit more than $5k at a time on the ...

AUD/USD

I agree with Craig. A good place to start is with opening session breakouts. There are some good threads here. Maybe also inside bar trading because it can be used in conjunction with breakouts, check the dibs thread. These type of methods are good ...

Mechanical System - Emotions Discussion

Thanks for this Dopey. I don't post much, but really enjoying your threads, priceless stuff.

A trading session

This is actually something i've been thinking about alot. I'm only part time at the moment but i worry if i'm ever good enough to go full time that the lack of personal interaction you get in other work environments might adversely effect me. I'm ...

Dilemma - what to do with your free time?

I'm far from an expert, but my take on it is that it's because they are one of the few countries to avoid going into recession, mainly due to the demand from China for the Aussie resource commodities. Don't know how accurate this is but i vaguely ...

AUD

Hi Ian When i say i'm interested in a daily system, i don't mean trading the FSP everyday. I was refering to adjusting the entry criteria based on the average daily range rather than the previous weekly range and would be looking to hold the ...

First-Strike & One-Night-Stand users, show yourself and your mods, if you dare!!!

Hi Guys Been lurking FF for a few months now, love the thread, i'm going to start trading FSP and ONS from next week along with DIBS. I'm going to trade all the systems purely from the instructions except when i have a NR4 bar i'm going to double ...

First-Strike & One-Night-Stand users, show yourself and your mods, if you dare!!!