It didn't ignore your stop; price gapped. Your stop says to close if the market goes below your stop price, and it did. It just didn't do it slowly, it gapped down.

learned a very valuable lesson today

Backtest isn't going to give the whole pictures, since it's supposed to run on several pairs, along with a separate EA to close all trades the other EA opens. i don't think there's a way to run more than one EA on backtest... You surely make a good ...

Giving Back! My Best Expert Advisor EA Free for Everyone

You're right, NFP hardly did anything. In fact, the dollar went down first on the good news, then reversed later. Around noon eastern time is when the dollar really dropped, I figured it had to be the Fed talks. If I wanted to know "Why?" I would ...

Noob Question - NFP was great today, so why did EURUSD rise?

Any post that claims to have something that makes money will go on and on. If it actually has some promise or genuine merit, or requires no work to make money, then it will go on forever. I can see the point of the naysayers. With no verifiable ...

Giving Back! My Best Expert Advisor EA Free for Everyone

Wow, thanks for that info. What's the best way to record trading session / screen activity? Well, maybe not the best, how about the lowest cost? Here's the tab. Looks like it took about 40 seconds to open my pending (buy limit) order. In the ...

Tradersway playing tricks

Mine is MT4 ECN. Sometimes it's instant, sometimes it's very slow. I emailed them, here's the response: Dear Client, Please note that we're an ECN brokerage house and therefore on your Live trading accounts that you have with us orders are sent ...

Tradersway playing tricks

So he started this thread over a year ago, and finally just now gives the plug for his signal service?

Lost $4.2k in 1 week

Absolutely it's $150 for each wire transfer out of the account. I'm going to complain some more. I just hit a close order on the X, and it took a solid minute to execute. I'd say. Maybe it seemed longer than it was, but it was a very long time... ...

Tradersway playing tricks

Wow, that's a concern. Plus, they charge $150 to wire to your bank. I asked about this and they said they can't lower it because that's what they pay. Fair enough. I plan to look at bitcoin to do withdrawals, but I don't know how to do that yet.

Tradersway playing tricks

Started trading live with Tradersway a week ago, and thought I would complain for awhile. Servers went down night before last when the yen got volatile, I wasn't happy about being cut off from my trades. Now they're still wonky. Press the button to ...

Tradersway playing tricks

I finally got it, folks. Axiom 11: It has to be fun, or you will not succeed. If it's not fun, you certainly won't succeed. That's why you have to find YOUR system. We're all different, so what's fun will be different to each person. Trading can be ...

Axioms of trading

Axiom 10: Every trader uses a different set of tools, even if the difference is slight. Therefore, considering Axioms 8, 9, and 10, I postulate that every trader has to discover or develop his or her own system.

Axioms of trading

Axiom 9: A successful trader cannot tell you exactly what they do. They have an "instinct" honed by many hours of education and experience. Basics can be taught, but that cannot be.

Axioms of trading

Axiom 8: a profitable trader can use any system and make money. That's because they know when to stay out of a trade, and when to bail out, regardless of what the system says.

Axioms of trading

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Probaly has to do with Oanda - they don't allow hedging, so when the pending sell was hit, the buy was closed out...

How to trade NFP/FOMC and make pips