succesful traders to study — I will address the question in a different light... "what makes someone a successful trader that I would want to study?" I would say that someone who has consistently proven to me that he can trade... that he can ...

What is a "sucessful trader"?

FXO, sounds like good flow chart material

What actually works.

death by a thousand cuts — I really don't get the "peel the bananna" type exit strategy... where somone enters a position with, say, 3 lots and exits at 3 different targets. e.g. lets say they got out at 30, 60 and 90 pips... so they claim ...

The Best Way To Choose Exits

what we need is a database — what we need is a database of brokers that specify their order execution characteristics: e.g. slip at news [yes/no] [how much... on what news event] requotes? or always holds order and slips you terminal freezes ...

what's with this complaints about brokers

hi, which is your country? Remember that many countries that do not tax FX because the country considers them tax-exempt capital gains, will still tax you if it is your primary source of income because in their eyes it is now income, not capital ...

Anyone have an offshore entity?

yeah, I found some powerful string array library (sorting and the works) on the metaquotes site... you think they would have the basics like this too

Case Insensitive String Compare OR Uppercase function?

since I couldn't find anything, decided to write it myself... if anyone knows if there are built in functions to use then please let me know... thanks. or if there is a more efficient way to write it. There is a lot of string copying going on in the ...

Case Insensitive String Compare OR Uppercase function?

yeah, but don't get in too early either.

Getting into the trade late?

all I have to say is if Spartan's version of Korean history is correct, why were the Japanese so nice to the Koreans? Did they get their fill simply from the raping and massacring of (conservative estimates) tens of thousands of Chinese? oh, and ...

north korean panic ensues..

What would have happened if... — North Korea surprised us with a test? I mean if they didn't announce it last week (or whenever it was that they announced it)?

north korean panic ensues..

oops — arrrays of colors do work... I need to learn to take a break when programming static color ABC [] = { Aqua, Yellow, };

list of colors?

thanks Phil, now I understand better... I was unaware of the long recommendation but they probably have it buried in there somewhere. So now it makes sense.

What is "Stop & Reverse Below"?

Igor answered the rouble question, as for the yuan... it used to be pegged at 8.something to the USD. For ages. American politicians didn't like this, so finally the Chinese allowed the yuan to float... but within a narrow band? still mostly pegged ...

Chinese yuan (USD/CNY)

don't know but they only made the rouble fully convertible in July. and the yuan is still far from being fully convertible. it is funny because I think I was reading in the summer that Russians are demanding to be paid in roubles instead of USD ...

Chinese yuan (USD/CNY)

what date is this? I'm used to mm/dd/yy format, but really I can't figure this one out... closest I can think of is oct 18th but that is a couple of weeks in the future... is it a typo?

Spreads and Slippage

right click the market watch window choose show all That will be all the pairs available. If you want other pairs, download another broker's MT4 demo and see what they have. as for NZD, I myself do not know what IBFX offers because it is no longer ...

IBFX - More charts?

AFAIK nothing has leverage like Spot Forex but the greatest thing about Forex doesn't seem to be mentioned often... you can't really lose any more money than you put in! This is one of the things that makes FX trading so great.... the ability to use ...

Is there anything else than FOREX ??? That you can make good money.