Many brokers act as execution venues. Arbitrage profit considered as risk-free, i.e. in their opinion you gain an unfair advantage. But still for some markets it is possible to hold positions longer than 2-3 seconds so they let you withdraw your ...

Brokers/accounts suitable for arbitrage trading

What else is available for analysis except for bid/ask and tick arrival time? Pls help, I'm stuck.

How to identify the most Ranging Zones

How to find that you broker is good or bad for backtesting? Quality of candle historical data or.. what should be the key criteria?

Best broker for backtesting?

What about ECB slashing interest rates? Do you think it won't be enough to knock down Euro?

HotForex Discussion

Crypto volumes are clearly falling, volatility also struggles which diverts good part of speculative capital from it. This self-reinforcing loop is detrimental in the long-run because two years after pandemic showed that most projects that promised ...

Are bitcoin owners making a crypto-exit?

Nice analysis bro, however a bit unrealistic. There is nowhere to run away from dollar. Gold is a safe heaven yes but it's not good to serve as medium of exchange, also any currency backed by Gold.. it is unsustainable in the long-run and hard to ...

How Would Inverse Correlated Pairs React If/When USD Crashes

Looks like they are dealing desk, otherwise they wouldn't survive with this cheap access, zero spreads most of the time etc. There is likely a conflict of interest but shouldn't be an issue if you lose with them or doesn't earn too much

Best Broker?

Focus exclusively on slippage (average slippage pre trade) the rest plays the secondary role. Also learn if the broker makes the market for you.

Best Broker?

From this correlation matrix I think you can't conclude if the pair is overbought or oversold because arbitrageurs quickly restore equilibrium

Can you tell when the currency is overbought or oversold?

Those that follow trading plan and honor stop loss are usually end at breakeven or slight loss due to transaction costs. If you don't understand where you edge comes from the gains that you have currently are most likely transitory and just result ...

90% fail, but maybe more succeed than we think?

Let p - the odds that price reaches Take Profit, 1-p - the odds that price reaches Stop loss What you want to achieve is positive expectancy of a trade or: p * Reward + (1-p) * Risk > 0 p / (1-p) > -Risk / Reward Take for example Risk/Reward of 2:3. ...

Are Risk/Reward ratios simply nonsense?

Did you read their ToS? If they have respective provision then it's your fault than your didn't read it carefully, otherwise yes they are bucketshops that can act on their own discretion in certain situations which is red flag.

Broker is Closing Down

Did you take a look at tradingfxvps? They are cheaper compared to beeksfx, I use it with Hotforex and basically experience no issues. Moreover they offer Hyper-V virtualization which is certainly faster

Best VPS for IC Markets?

The biggest difference is of course the presence of financial risk and as practice shows many newbie traders fail to adequately estimate or react to it as we tend to avoid or reduce uncertainty. Hence it is not uncommon to see how traders cut their ...

Demo Forex VS Real Forex

I think there is no point for brokers to offer the leverage if any sizeable price move (like 10 pips up or down and there are no quotes inside that move) will leave trader with negative balance, i.e. it will owe broker. I think this situation can be ...

What is the maximum leverage that is allowed in forex trading?

I think the biggest problem is to find profitable market inefficiencies where competition from other market players is low. Every new idea is increasingly more difficult to find and implement especially when your potential rivals can use AI and ...

What is your biggest problem when it comes to trading?

Never experienced any platform freezes or disconnections with Hotforex. Maybe because I run MT4 platform from forex VPS and use robot for trading.

Looking for good broker with reliable demo account (not freezing)

Just make sure you have enough money to cover daily swaps. I think there is plenty of choice and it is worth to focus only on regulation as execution and spreads shouldn't matter to you.

Long swing/position brokers

What commodities exactly do you need and what should be the underlying asset? In case it is exactly commodity asset, have a look at Hotforex url they have instruments like live cattle, juice, cotton etc..

MT4 Broker with wide range of commodities

It's like using 1:100 or 1:200 leverage to open positions (though not possible for exchange-traded instruments) or selling naked call options (where upside potential is unlimited). Higher leverage increases pip value, hence smaller adverse move can ...

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