of course you can still make money. it is just that bandits gets to share with you some of that profit. think about is as rebates from profitable traders to LPs. you are under the radar with micro lots

Trading Myths and Some Forex Math

pretty much. it is Tigers eat Dogs situation this is why "last look" festure exists for LPs. they can delay or reject some retail traders' orders based on profitability. if you are profitable trader notice that slippage gets larger after banking ...

Trading Myths and Some Forex Math

really? how do you know that your argument is right and mine is wrong? by knowledge or mere sake of arguing? obviously you don't know shit about how the forex market works behind the scenes. let me explain it in another view point: - Forex retail ...

Trading Myths and Some Forex Math

no wonder why you were ridiculed by CP

Trading Myths and Some Forex Math

dukas; i know what am talking about. Forex is not the same as stocks in order matching. i suggest you read how exchanges matches orders and how FX differ from stocks

Trading Myths and Some Forex Math

you havent understood my post. read it carefully especially last sentence

Trading Myths and Some Forex Math

in most FX brokers (except Lmax); limit order is no different than market order. Actually it is worse in terms of slippage. this is because you are trading with liquidity providers. your limit order will not execute until the market moves against ...

Trading Myths and Some Forex Math

September 2018 stats: MTD: 12.25% YTD: 65% Max DD: 11% A new High water mark is achieved; so here is one of my favourite songs for this event: video

Verbal diarrhea matches trading skills?

will check it out with statistical analysis. I previously used a concept called "Bar Factor" to determine that market within the current day is trending or not. for up trend: Bar factor = (Close - Open) / (High - Low). for down trend: Bar factor = ...

Simple Mean Reversion

Hi AO, what do you think is the best quantitative way to measure the smoothness/corrective moves of a trend? In hindsight we can detect that by just observing the chart; but programmatically it's harder.

Simple Mean Reversion

dancingphil has beat you to it, he made 88millions; and owns tons of gold bars. His biggest problem is where to store the cash$$ so he bought a vault to store the gold. he has already made a movie; as star actor; deuce bigalow, man gigolo

The Documentary: "Breaking Forex"

AO, that's plenty of filters to implement; and all make sense.

Simple Mean Reversion

AO; good work mate. I like the currency index filter. if you can elaborate further it will be great. I tried in the past similar filter but with no statistical significance. i.e. trade only if currency is moving alone; not because of USD index is ...

Simple Mean Reversion

perhaps they can bend the space/time (or the chart to be specific); and trade it from the left side.. lol

Simple Mean Reversion

through experience; found out that the best make for screens is Dell; they are more healthier than other brands.

Trading Myths and Some Forex Math

there are some pairs who behave like that; such as USDTRY or USDMXN. You can enjoy the ride; until you are ripped off

Simple Mean Reversion

let me spill some beans about the markets; trading the markets is like having sex with a woman. there are times when sex will be great; and times when it will be horrible. eventhough the man (you in this case) can be ready for sex anytime; the woman ...

Simple Mean Reversion

V, have a read on this book; it's a classic and it is very useful for mean reversion trading. Pairs Trading: Quantitative Methods and Analysis by Ganapathy Vidyamurthy Trading Forex is actually "Pairs Trading" because you are trading the spread ...

Simple Mean Reversion

automation requires *good* coding skills otherwise you will be burried in coding errors that hinder your trading development

Simple Mean Reversion

Very interesting video by Hedge Fund manager David Harding, on Trend Following Model on a diversified setting; pretty much similar to what Copernicus is trying to achieve. Notice that David mentioned the secret of his success; is that individual ...

Systematic Portfolio Diversification - Data Mining Concept