I've been lurking a little bit. I have a suggestion on the issue about closing down the EA before news, etc. The EA would still manage stop losses, so, your positions should exit if it goes against you. It would also manage TP as well, if the news ...

Firebird EA - fixed version -

I don't know if anyone has actually seen this, or not, but, here's a graph of the ADP report compared to the BLS report. It shows percentage change over the last month for each report. What I find really interesting is that, with the exception of ...

ADP predicts NFP?

If both brokers are registered with NFA, you can do an account transfer where they wire the money from one to another. I did this going from FXDD to CoesFX. However, I'm not sure if you can just wire a portion of the account funds. I've anticipated ...

making (a little) money off interest

Are you trying to avoid brokers that support MetaTrader? MetaTrader has scripting capabilities similar to C. If you can program VB or c#, you can use MetaTrader. It also has an API for using C# modules as well.

Which Broker to go with? (Combined Threads)

No, I'd just do a search on google. I looked into it a couple months ago, but have decided to save my money for now until I actually have an EA I want to use regularly. One thing to remember - you need to get a Windows, not Linux, VPS server. ...

Forex platforms with ability to put Breakeven Stops

You can spend $30 a month and lease a windows VPS server where you can run MetaTrader and all of your EA's. Otherwise, I don't know of a server based solution, though, I'm sure one of the brokers has one.

Forex platforms with ability to put Breakeven Stops

Which one are you referring to? You'll see in the thread that there are server files for a number of brokers. I'm not sure which one's do not expire. I have an FXDD demo that hasn't expired yet after several months.

Forever Demo Account

I built my own expert advisor for MetaTrader4 for this. Actually, there's take profit code as well. I think I have an EA just for moving stops, too, if you're interested. I'd have to look at it and see if it's in shape. ...

Forex platforms with ability to put Breakeven Stops

That's true. But, if you only watch a single timeframe, you can get around it by only checking your code once per time period (every 15 minutes, for instance) then setting a flag when the alert goes off. I did this with one of my other alerts. I ...

Ema cross indicator?

Try to do some searches on this forum about CoesFX. You'll see all you need to know about them.

No-dealing desk broker with 100:1 leverage

ycomp, No, you're not crazy! You're calculations on margin are absolutely correct - except that FXCM must do it differently. In effect, it seems that you can get triple or more leverage with FXCM because of how they calculate margin. However, I'm ...

Getting Around your broker

Why don't you just use juice?

Any MT4 indicator simillar to Juice

Laughter and Tears: Here's a strategy I seriously contemplated using after about 3 months or so in the market. 1. Do a thorough analysis of the market. 2. Determine the most probable direction. 3. Pick an entry point. 4. Recognize that I have a 10% ...

Tears And Laughter In Forex Trading

It's important to remember the main purposes of a demo account. They are to 1) learn the movement of the market 2) evaluate a system and, very important 3) get to know how to use the platform. When I first started trading, lack of familiarity with a ...

Unlimited Demo Accounts

If you've already installed MetaTrader, you can grab server files from various brokers. Here's a thread that explains how: url . I think that only a few brokers have expiring demos. Try the metaquotes or moneytec server files.

Forever Demo Account

Ahhh. I see. They can be irritating. They don't seem to throw my indicators (MA, sto) off too much. When I see them, I just send them an email and they correct them at the server. CoesFX has had MT4 all of 3 weeks in house, so, I'm willing to give ...

My MT4 broker experiences

Aaron, There are 4 options for using CoesFX out there on the market right now. So, it gets a little confusing. 1. The original CoesFX platform. You get this by going directly to CoesFX. It's their legacy platform, no charts, kind of difficult to ...

My MT4 broker experiences

Hi BK and others, There are quite a few threads here at FF cautioning folks against looking at a broker's demo platform. I won't go through all the arguments that have already been postulated, but, will go through a couple. 1. Demo execution is ...

My MT4 broker experiences

OK. These guys are not a broker, but an introducing broker to MB Trading. MB Trading, from what I've heard does have a dealing desk. Otherwise, there is no other way that they can offer minis.

No-dealing desk broker with 100:1 leverage

Yeah, I've thought about the same thing. You really only need a small subset of the announcements going out. I spoke to CoesFX about their news recently. I'm using their MetaTrader implementation and can't get on to their old system, where they have ...

Actual indicators?