And sometimes you just don't get the tick at all... that's it, I'm going to the Merc...

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This means your chance of succeeding in Forex trading is very small and the odds are stacked against you. Be there some other form of arbitrage that provides the hungry with cheaper meals???

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Jason: You are not offering a free vps. these traders are giving you $5000! In fact, you are not offering a vps at all. Barry, could you explain in a nutshell vps. I'm non-technical. I have been using fxcm active trader and very unhappy with delayed ...

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I am right. If you removed speculative trading from the world, the markets would still exist. They would just be more volatile. Well bud, I don't really have time to go into deep philosophical treatise on markets. I will say this. All trading is ...

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There is no right or wrong..........just can and can't and some day's are worse than others.... when a model fails it can really drive you insane...

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Seems like people don't realize that the FX markets move with purpose. And this is how I know you are the king of the bucket shops.... this is funny... If how cross-eyed drunk an options market maker is staring at his vega is purpose, you could be ...

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[quote=madmatz;3610744]I hear what you're saying. It seems to me like a lot retailers trade the equivalent of driving a car with binoculars on, staring 1 inch in front of the bumper. There are definitely traders who can make it work but it's more ...

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[quote=Platypus;3607085]Come on...if you worked for institutions you know what I'm talking about . Well, only was broking options, not trading the underlying market, and it wasn't that long. I focus on the E/U as well. I really don't care where it ...

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Thanks man, that makes sense. I worked as an interbank fx options broker for a few months, with ICAP,, met a lot of dealers.. it must be cool to make a call and have one of them fill your order. I've since spent 18 months in one place, once chair, ...

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If I quote somebody do they get the message? Anyways, Platypus, I've been trolling about for information and found quite a few of your comments here in the FXCM forum. What do you know of the so-called active trader ECN? Is it also as you describe ...

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Hi Zen Leow, I've read that you are a great programmer and very generous with helping non-programmers out. I am trying to rework this indicator so that displays the second buffer contents, Ac_Vis, in the first buffer place so that I can apply other ...

the impossible EA?

[QUOTE=hanover;1935637]I realize that the original post is over 2 months old. However, if anybody wants to export data to a CSV file, I have written the out_hist.mq4 indicator (attached to this post). Dave, Thanks for all of your help in the forum. ...

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"After all if you treat your broker well he will treat you well!! You will be the winner!" Until he brokes you, this is funny....

Noob question about brokerages and fees

Thanks for reply Hanover, You might be the right person to ask about the coming of Metatrader 5. I have a few favourite indicators written in the MQL4 language. Do you know if they will need to be translated to into MQL5 or will they be able run in ...

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Hanover, thank you for your reply. Junior members may not PM Senior members, unfortunately. If you could PM me your thoughts on Alpari vs MBT, my shortlist, that would be tres cool. Really appreciate your thoughts. FYI, I am a rookie after 270 or so ...

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Trader KGB, if you catch this message would you be so kind as to PM the name of the most reliable broker for clean data. Thank You

EBS Feed + MT4!

Hi Hanover, Firstly just let me say thank you so much for sharing your brilliance with us lesser mortals. I was wanting to ask your opinion on broker data. I have concerns about my current setup... You mention Alpari as one of your preferred feeds ...

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