And 3-0-0 is 343. It's just using the primes as the base of your counting system, like an abacus. I used brute force and let my mac work out the primes for me. It took about an hour to work them all out. There is no formula to creating them, so they ...

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Another person in the market and it could be the broker. This is obvious as it's a zero sum game.

Who is the counterparty on Currenex, ECN, DMA broker platforms?

I'm not a sales person, so I'm not going to make claims I can't back up just to win some internet friends, but thanks for the concern. I guess this journal is just going to be not as exciting as all the others.

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Is a 10% return per month good? Is Megan Fox hot? As others have mentioned already on this thread, it's more about at what risk you will have to accept to achieve this consistently. When the sums of money become more meaningful, the sums of money ...

In FOREX, is 10% return per month good enough?

I think the OP is missing the point about what MM is meant to be. It's just drawing the line on what is personally acceptable to risk on each trade. hanover has it right when he said it was about taking responsibility. When the sums of money at risk ...

1% Money Management is a myth, fib is a myth and so on..

Happy New Year! I want to ponder on some thoughts I have experienced with my trading. I'm still mesmerized when I enter a trade and feel the emotions of hope, greed and fear. I am completely sucked in by the price action, hoping that the fear of my ...

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You can't hedge on Oanda as it just nets off your deal with any existing positions. You can trade gold on margin though.

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I just want to point out that I have been with Oanda longer than my account shows. Before late August my account was linked to their U.S. branch and then they transferred me to their European branch by closing my U.S. account and creating a new ...

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I backtested my new strategy yesterday and although it was profitable, it's not as profitable as my current strategy and the consecutive losses are more than double. It's back to the dream factory for now as I look for other profitable strategies.

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Working on the sell side of FX at an IB I can first tell you that you can move the market with a large enough flow, it can be as little as $50 mio. Next thing, the people get paid on the absolute amount of money they make, so if they make $100mio ...

the way the big players trade?

The VaR per trade for the current system is at 1% of equity and it's this system that I had considered changing the VaR to 2% of equity, more because I was thinking I wasn't taking enough risk as my 34% return could have been 68% with only a ...

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The wide spreads today have resulted in the backtests showing a negative return both with my actual strategy and the one that I'm testing, so I will have to test again when the spreads are more normal, which hopefully will be by next Monday. I've ...

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I'm going to provide another update on my current thoughts on trading. Over the weekend I decided that I needed to implement another strategy to reduce the number of consecutive losses in a row and hopefully reduce future maximum drawdowns. I've ...

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I'm not sure why you are bringing up fraud and losses on the sell side. I can only guess that you have your own agenda against the brokers in the market. My suggestion to people who have the same opinion as you is to find the most reasonable broker ...

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I guess you've been looking in the wrong place if you think EA's don't work. Goldman's, Renaissance Techonologies and a few other hedge funds use algorithms to trade on the buy side. The head count is slowly being reduced on the sell side as more ...

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I've not seen anyone work on this EA but there are similar variations on the same theme which are profitable too. Here is the webpage if you are interested: url

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I'm a believer that a computer can trade better than a human, hence my strategy is implemented by an EA that I've created. I got my inspiration from another EA which I just stumbled across. I knew there were automated trading strategies that were ...

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My favourite thoughts? Probably to have none! But what I do think about most are how things can go wrong and how to improve them. It's how scientists think, where they try to disprove a theory rather than trying to prove it. Trying to reduce losing ...

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Ha! No I'm not a patient in real life and I'm not sure if I should be, but I find it therapeutic to be sitting in a chair and answering people's questions about my thoughts.

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Nope, I am the patient in the chair and the readers are the psychologists.

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