on most news day, oanda is fine. I experienced slippage for the first time on friday during the nonfarm employment release.

Good Broker for news trade

My reasonable goal is to make the amount of money I was making at work each day. My goal used to be making as little as 5pips per day when I first started. Very reasonable.

What are reasonable goals?

If I remember correctly, Vegas said he has a secretary to update his spreadsheet on multiple pairs...not just the cable

Questions on the Vegas documents

The data they gathered is from their own server I believe. FXCM's trading tip also skew the data because I think many people are following it. It seems to work the way they suggest most of the time unless their is a strong force going against their ...

sentiment of traders at Oanda and FXCM

there is very little chance a 100pip gain will come back down on the same day is what Vegas was refering to.

Questions on the Vegas documents

How do you determine your entry? Did it look promising from manual backtesting?

Testing of new method

Rob's EMA and Phil's indicator are related?

McGrew MACD & Other discussions

I disagree, gambling is when you put money down on a position with no backing of any fundamental data from news release.

Immediate market reaction on news are still the same ?

It might be harder to spot a trade in real time since the lines are so close together. 13 SL away from the cross sounds great only if you can enter trades exactly where they cross. I'm afraid this won't work cuz the price will go so far away from ...

Open/Close Crossover Method

Assuming you are using bunnygirl... Your SL was too low! Your SL was 17 points away from your entry. I don't know what your filter level is, but if you used 20 pips filter then your SL should be 25 to 30 pips away. The signal was a good one if only ...

How did I mess up this trade?

a pip is the number of point they gained ... it doesn't matter how many lots they put into the trade. Like Mudd was saying ... he trade small number of lots but compensate for that by capturing more pips to make enough to trade full time. Trading ...

What is your monthly target?

i hate when someone's speaking also ... it causes a lot of quick choppy condition that makes no sense to me. It's best to wait or not jump in at all on those days. I agree with you on the calm asian market. I make a few pip myself every night when I ...

Trading the news

you should definitely take it to court or at least small claims court if you can prove that you were targeted an another member was not.

Stop Hunting

This is why stop using VWB daily when I got stopped out twice in the same week. I tried switching down to 4H method to see a better entry point but I didn't see any. That's when you have to switch to something else because the market is in a long ...

FF_Tunnel (4 Hour)

yes it's great and I use it for my game plan for the upcoming week. But as for the newly released data, the calendar doesn't get updated right away. I use FXCM's news. Sometimes it's up to the minute/second of the news release. Sometime it's slower ...

Trading the news

It'll probably be quiet ... if nothing happen at opening hours ... just take the day off

Quick dumb question - markets open Monday?

sounds very similar to me...

platform that accept "market if touch" order type

what the heck is a "market if touch" order? My guess is limit orders? On Oanda's limit order ... when the market price touches your entry price, then it will place an order for you. The TP and SL can also be set too if you check the box on the left ...

platform that accept "market if touch" order type

don't be lazy .. read and look at the example yourself .. you might take away from it something diffrent than what we would summarize it for you.

EJ_4H method

you're too detailed ... following a series of indicator in a system doesn't require you to know every nuts a bolts ... just follow it if it works in real time. Don't need to be super smart and come up with your own winning formula.

Scalping techniques on 1 Min chart