I tend to agree to markets being close to a random walk. And the times the markets are non-efficient we only see in hindsight.. Is it possible to trade random walk - I don't know but sure would like to know. What about Maxwell's demon? Can our ...

Forex - A negative sum game for losers

Sounds logical. Is there any reason to trade anything beside majors then?

Trading a single currency basket

That idea bothers me. How can brokers get any of the commissions from a winning trader while paying traders profits? If broker doesn't hedge winning traders exposure, and traders account grows, then broker getting the commissions from traders ...

Multiplied $100 into $10,000 in two months

A semi-rhetorical question: you have a position with 30 pip stoploss. Something awful happens and price makes a 2000 pip spike against you. How many pips would your real risk be in that situation? Do you expect to get out with loss of only 30 pips?

Pro traders who do not use SL, What about Black Swans?

But what does the Martingale actually mean: is it doubling your next position until win or blown account? Or perhaps any adding to any (winning or losing) position? Or something in-between? In that case, what is being said, if somebody says that ...

8 Years Later - Still Not Winning

Constant pushing of the IC Markets everywhere in this forum gets kind of boring already. Good brokers do not need to be sold this way but all I'm reading here is IC Markets this, and IC Markets that.. Cut it out, please.

Breaking: ESMA finalizes new rules to govern leveraged trading

Some good posts in this thread. What I would really like to know is what would be the most advantageous TP size: small (20 pip) or large (300 - 800 pip). Any knowledgeable opinions?

3 steps to turn around your trading in no time

A few questions: Why so small Take Profit? Trading with many separate orders with small TP, you'll need constantly enter new orders - lots of manual work. Wouldn't it be more comfy to have somewhat bigger targets? Why have hard SL at all? I mean, ...

3 steps to turn around your trading in no time

Lots of confusion in this matter.. For all intents and purposes, our leverage in the future will be 1:20. No need to talk about 1:30 because it will apply only to a few instruments.

Breaking: ESMA finalizes new rules to govern leveraged trading

I had a similar incident with IC-Markets demo account at the beginning of February. Swap figures went ten-fold. I stared at my screen, unbelieving what I saw. For example, there was a position previously 1000 € in green, now 200 € in red, because ...

I was charged 10x normal swap yesterday

The margin requirements for spot forex is now exactly as Interactive Brokers already has. A coincident? If you gonna have margin as low as IB offers and ESMA demands, then why prefer the lesser brokerages? Everybody should open an account with IB... ...

Breaking: ESMA finalizes new rules to govern leveraged trading