I've had it for 5+ years so yeah, I'm pretty happy. To be perfectly clear, stock/options is one account, forex another, and futures yet another. But, you trade them all from the same charting platform (which is programmable and supports automation). ...

Online Stock/Options Broker

With your account size you could take a look at tradestation. You could trade stocks/options/forex/futures all from the same platform.

Online Stock/Options Broker

OK, I thougth as much. Thats a terrible risk:reward. You are risking $3 to make $0.60. No trader, good or bad, can overcome those odds. You have to get that straightened out. Obviously, increasing size and doing it on NFP friday are big mistakes but ...

In Search of Lost Profit ...

That's your explanation? CO2 levels rose during the same time. Why don't we tie the rise in GBPJPY to that? Care to throw up some 1999-2004 graphs?

Trading The "Normal State"

Please explain why this happens. The NFP report was a US based report and at the end of the day the USD was lower than it was before the report.

Trading The "Normal State"

If your point is that the US stock market is higher than it was 100 years ago then congratulations on your discovery. The SP500 is only now reaching levels that were established back in 2000. Firstly, you can't tie the GBPJPY to US expansion and ...

Trading The "Normal State"

I am confused as to how you can compare two unseemingly related events. I thought the GBPJPY expanded because of a week Yen. Given your theory, why didn't the GBPJPY explode during the internet bubble. That was arguably one of the most rapid ...

Trading The "Normal State"

How mnay trades did you take to accumulate the $30 profit?

In Search of Lost Profit ...

I get the impression that you are looking for something more complicated but why wouldn't putting the ATR (average true range) indicator on your chart provide you the information you seek?

Forex Analysis Software question

ItalianSharp - great post but to be fair, this is a Forex forum and as such, many of us make comments with regards to the Forex market and not the e-mini market. You have to remember that spreads in forex for the average trader on this forum is ...

Soultrader's Clinic :)

In a matter of speaking yes. Entropy scientifically describes the increasing randomness of nature from an energy standpoint. The most simple example is melting ice. Ice has a crystalline structure and is very orderly. It melts into water and the ...

NFP Sweepstakes

That reminds me of the definiton of entropy. (I'll put away my geek glasses now before I get beat up during recess)

NFP Sweepstakes

I find it interesting that people strive to assign order to seemingly random events.

NFP Sweepstakes

Elliott Wave traders are never wrong - they just relabel. By the way, it's bad karma to make fun of someone's loss.

Dollar up or down today

69712 I just wanted to be the last to post before the reoport. Sort of like eBay.

NFP Sweepstakes

True. Every broker decides how much to credit you. I don't think they have any problem taking money when it's owed to them. And, at least one broker doesn't do swaps at all.

Question about swaps...

too high

NFP Sweepstakes

No poems for the reversal? Maybe a limmerick?

Ode to Trichet

A swap, or rollover, is the interest you pay or recieve as a result of the difference in interest rates to which you are exposed. While forex seems paperless and involves a simple, innocent click of the mouse, you are playing with real money and in ...

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