if i "hedge" .. i have no balance-drawdown like if accept stoploss and re-enter positions. also this way does not kill my equity as a non-hedged position would and if i do get married to a position ... instead of blow the account, i can make the ...

Hedge Large Upswings - Is it advisable?

well thats exactly why i open this thread there are some aspects the screenshoot i attached does not show .. 1. iam not after the gap as such. my aim is the swing arround it .. and the goal is to catch as much as possible of the way back to the ...

Hedge Large Upswings - Is it advisable?

here is another good example (from today) the gap was almost overlapping a gap from a few days before so i skipped that one. but the pending order from the gap before was executed and luckily it was filled by just 1 pip 4 hours later the current gap ...

Gap Traders out there (need some advice about losing trades)

well statistically 81% of the gaps close in the next 36 hours (well thats what statistics say) lets just say for the sake of a example: 8 out of 10 work out in a timely fashion without the need of a million $ equity to hold them that long. makes 2 ...

Gap Traders out there (need some advice about losing trades)

thats VERY true! i do that only on IT40 and DAX ... the "problem"is there .. if i get into a gap and go while have bought somewhat 10 contracts against the direction i would end up VERY fast on a margin call .. as most of the time the price does ...

Gap Traders out there (need some advice about losing trades)

is that true ? its just price moving .. nobody does cheat anything .. would be quite interesting to know. i start a small strategy on gaps as well have doubled my demo account balance in 6 days however i have not loosed yet .. still try to figure ...

Gap Trading

here is a example of a "questionable" situation the close of the gap took MUCH longer. i made 4% plus on my account that day and the gap was closed as expected .. however this could have been just a Gap-and-go scenario .. (i was simply lucky i ...

Gap Traders out there (need some advice about losing trades)

just to clarify what i meant if i make the decition to get into a trade i messure the required Stoploss (in this example its 22 pips) so Hit F9 and type -22 in the Stoploss field then increase/decrease the lot size until the percentage is close to ...

day to day goals and risk in general

one of the problems is also that the software (especially MT4) is by design helping this brokers.. as example, if you place a Buy Stop .. after its been executed, there is zero proof that the order was there in the first place. exept of a log file ...

Show me a scam broker

exactly! it should be either spread OR commission. well on pepperstone the prices are still good with commission+spread

cTrader Broker: Pepperstone vs. FxPro vs. RoboForex (not really)

thats true .. well that was for a test only anyway .. i not complaining about this .. never hat this kind of slips on Pepperstone ... (i have no MT4 account with them .. so i used Roboforex to make the comparision in addition to the 2 other posts ...

MT4 vs cTrader: Which platform would you recommend?

lets talk speed (or "Why you can't scalp on MT4") i placed a BUY STOP on both platforms buy 0.1 Lot at 1.10514 TP at 1.10520 (6 points / 0.6 pip) (i copy and paste the values so there is no room for error) - the price ran straight trough the order ...

MT4 vs cTrader: Which platform would you recommend?

well lets give it a test drive then, shall we ? MT4 ECN Pro account vs. cTrader ECN Pro both on Roboforex placed the worst possible scenario: loss on short (see picture) image lets decrypt it: 0.01 Lot with Stoploss at 2.3 pip MT4: -23 points, ...

MT4 vs cTrader: Which platform would you recommend?

MT5 is clearly the biggest looser of them all ... a hopeless try to get US-conform that failed. updates for MT4 where less while MT5 was rolled out, but soon after even Metaquotes realised that nobody outside the US wanna use MT5 i did test it .. ...

MT4 vs cTrader: Which platform would you recommend?

Pepperstone vs. FxPro Spreads (made screenshoot at the same time)

cTrader Broker: Pepperstone vs. FxPro vs. RoboForex (not really)

another thing to mention is that fxpro does offer Commodities as well .. where Pepperstone has that only on demo accounts ... and execution speeds are MUCH faster on FXPro (but thats maybe somethings connection based) ... i made 2 trades to compare ...

cTrader Broker: Pepperstone vs. FxPro vs. RoboForex (not really)

i went trough serval places .. listing ctrader broker .. as i not wantet to just go from the spotware recomentations .. i basically signed up with all of them .. used some demo accounts and so on .. compared prices (which is on its own already a ...

cTrader Broker: Pepperstone vs. FxPro vs. RoboForex (not really)