It's hard to judge a broker on the Swiss debacle (unless they're a complete bucket shop). The cold hard reality is people who lost money only had themselves to blame as financial history proves it's just a matter of time before a peg brakes. It was ...

Interactive Brokers - experiences and opinions

And as far a TWS being a load of crap that's true. But there are some pretty good order entry add-ons, I use Button Trader and it's excellent, really quick and slick to enter all sorts of orders, many can be programmed up. If one is a scalper BT is ...

Interactive Brokers - experiences and opinions

Futures are are sometimes better than spot, other times not. Here are 4 problems with them - Their contract size can be too large for some traders and not flexible, ie in the Euro you can only trade in blocks of $125k so you can't trade for example, ...

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Show us your workstation!

Yep, that 15m close can often offer up some strange moves with IB. 20-30 tick up/down is not uncommon on the re-open. Often seems to pick off some level as well. Bet IB get more than a fair share of stick from semi-irate customers. Personally in ...

Interactive Brokers - experiences and opinions

Something else I've found useful when looking to take profits is the 'character change'. Often this will get you out near the highs or lows. Works on all timeframes. Sure, sometimes you cover too early and bam, off price goes without you on board ...

The most important technical skill to learn

Understatement of the year You're of course 100% right, you better have good control over yourself and your method when trading the Dax otherwise if can very quickly take you to the cleaners. If there is a secret to trading the Dax it's probably ...

The Swamp

Sterling is never more than a few years away from a currency crash. Some people seem to think, mainly politicians, that a weak currency is always good news, for them it's never weak enough. Sorry but this is all complete bollocks. With western ...

What happens if GBPUSD reaches 1.0000?

Good point, I know where you're coming from Jen.

What happens if GBPUSD reaches 1.0000?

Yep, I agree 100%. There was some book written a few years back (can't remember the name) and the author mentioned a trader who had pulled $100m+ out of the markets and apparently the trader's biggest weakness was never being able to properly master ...

The most important technical skill to learn

Jen, but if you're a trader you take the bet, it's easy money. You have more chance of getting killed today in your house by falling down the stairs or slipping in the shower than you do getting killed via a terrorist in Europe. Plus, with all the ...

What happens if GBPUSD reaches 1.0000?

The hardest skill to manage in my opinion is profit taking. Very hard to get that right.

The most important technical skill to learn

There will be a lot of Americans in London enjoying themselves.

What happens if GBPUSD reaches 1.0000?

Don't know if the free software Display Fusion would work but I'm using 6 screens perfectly although I use the excellent Ensign for Windows software.

Multiple monitor script for MT4

Yes, that video is great but it's a computer generated fake. I think it was a Nike advert or something like that.

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Only as much as the average person whose studied his work, not from the physical side, more the mental.

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Not like a lap dog I don't. He's just one of a few people whose comments and talk I like, nothing wrong with that and anyway, this is a free board so I'll go where I like, same with you.

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If you're talking about me Rosey I follow Rags's posts so wherever he posts I read, could be on this thread or some other thread I've never been to.

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Rags I think it would really help everyone reading if you could expand on this. How did you develop the mindset? What did you do? Do you follow any daily procedures, rituals? What happens when doubt comes into play (tries to sneak into your brain), ...

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