A VPS located near the server will improve your execution, one thing to consider for your set-up is you are using different brokers, that's already a problem for your time-response, not to mention that every broker will have different prices, ...

VPS for manual trading

I haven't found in 20 years an EA that can run fully automated and be profitable in the long run, I would say 70% of the EAs on the market are not fully or correctly optimized. I would only use the EA as an extra tool to run auto-pilot at certain ...

Should I Automate My Strategy?

I don't want to discourage anyone LOL but what are the odds here?

$10 to a million in 20 days

There are many brokers that offer Crypto-CFDs on MT4, you will not own the underlying asset, however, if the broker is regulated at least you are trading a regulated derivative that is more than most crypto-exchanges can offer at the moment. ...

I wanna trade crypto with MT4

(Equity/Used Margin) X 100= % Margin Level If the broker is giving you more leverage your margin requirement will be less with 1:500 than 1:200 For example to open one lot of EURUSD 100,000 (1lot) * 1.01937 (Exchange rate)/ 500( leverage)=$203.87 ...

Margin level increase with leverage - Why?

Certainly, you can be a professional scalper, depending on your expectations vs Bankroll. Not an easy life though.

Scalping! Can it really be profitable in the long term?

Some brokers offer Islamic accounts which are "swap-free", depending on the broker you will require to provide proof of faith to approve the account. Also, make sure you read the terms and conditions as those accounts sometimes have a flat rate ...

Broker without overnight/swap fees?

If you are trading with Margin, the broker will apply a margin call level and stop-out level, you can find some brokers with a stop-out level below 50% but is critical to understand the broker business model.

Good broker without silly restrictions

Outstanding results! Unnecessary leverage if you want to be alive in the long run, too much risk on that strategy if the Initial deposit was 500 EUR However if you can keep maintaining those results go for it, All the best with your transition to ...

Are these good results?

I really try to understand the thought process of your Testing, however, if your goal is to show the slippage I'm afraid it's incorrect. There's no way even with a professional set-up your demo account will send the EA's request at the same ...

Broker Slippage

The first thing will be to determine how much your pip value is for each instrument, some brokers will vary the contract size,GBPUSD, GBPNZD will be expressed in units, however, Indices are traded per contract basis, oil per barrels and Gold per ...

Risk management & trade Size

I personally love Metals. It all depends on you and if your strategy can be implemented on your new symbol. Every instrument has its own personality. I don't know what's your approach to the Market, but the liquidity and time execution you can find ...

I'm good with forex pairs, branch out to XAU, others?

US Independence Day Holiday on Monday, 4th it's been re-scheduled to the 8th

US NFP scheduling

Sorry, I'm confused. I believe demo servers can not reproduce Market Executions, Your SL, TP and pending orders on a demo account will always be filled at your price. How did you calculate the slippage? I can only see some random pending orders ...

Broker Slippage

ASIC will be reduced to 1:30 for majors 1:20 for minors 1:10 for commodities 2:1 for cryptos and 5:1 for shares. It's been published by ASIC today. At least you can change regulator, lucky you, I will need to make a plan to reduce my exposure before ...

IC Markets New Info - What does this mean for German dealers?

The leverage will affect your buying power, for example, if you have deposited on your broker $200 and you have a leverage of 1:500 you will be able to open a position of 100.000 units (Amount deposited * Leverage). However, leverage can be a ...

How does leverage work?

It really depends on many factors, if you're running a big account, it needs to be a point in which you will need to assume the loss and get out of the trade.

Trading without stop loss

I think there is a misconception of what a regulator can or cannot do. European regulators are realizing, late, how badly they regulated CFDs with the cuts in leverage. The broker only has to obtain a license outside of their jurisdiction and they ...

IC Markets banned in Italy?