Great work, Alex! Only one DD of 2000 Euro in a 5000 Euro account by testing from Jan. 2016 to Nov. 2016 with 1500 Trades. The approximated probability of a DD is less than 0.1%! However, I would like to know how this system works in detail. First, ...

New Martingale EA (logic like Mathtrader EA)

@TradingLife: Something interesting happened to Axiory. R Capital Solutions sold their brand Axiory to Lloyds and Fisher. The brand name changed to purple trading. Having a look at the Cysec page, the only thing that seemed to change is the line ...

Reality of FOREX: my experience with brokers + share yours

Guys, just rethink what makes sense. 1) Normally on forex, your brokers should pass your order directly to the market. Even if they are initially your counterparty and might not be able to pass your order fast enough, there will be some orders they ...

Why does Automated trading never seem to work?

For now, I need a genereal overview. And therefore the second idea is simply enough. Although your idea works advice works as well. I thank the two of you. Considering my problem (I observe ticks, not bars), adressing the i-th tick in an array would ...

MQL4 Problems checking current bid vs past tick

Thanks! That's a lot simpler than arrays. I could have known. :-)

MQL4 Problems checking current bid vs past tick

Thanks so far. I am not completely new to programming, I just have little experience with MQL4 espescially arrays. What I did is just to implement: ArrayResize(Bidtick,100000,100000) If I understood right, this should suffice. Also, do you have ...

MQL4 Problems checking current bid vs past tick

Well, that is the world of trading. There are some trustworthy wifes out there. But they are rare. And you will have difficulties to seperate them from the bad ones. Your alternatives is not to trade at all. What do you expect from TradingLife? Sue ...

Reality of FOREX: my experience with brokers + share yours

Well, what's the difference of manipulating the broker's MT4 version versus manipulating the broker's proprietary trading platform? I don't see why a broker is more likely to manipulate some interface or module in the MT4 rather than manipulating ...

Reality of FOREX: my experience with brokers + share yours

Looks to me like you have open positions and sometimes get interest, sometimes you have to pay the interest which is titlet as "balance update". You should ask your account manager what this means.

Reality of FOREX: my experience with brokers + share yours

I observed this only one time. Did not further investigation. Since it happened in August, the tick data is no longer available.

FXCM Discussion

Dear FXCM, this happened on your trading station some weeks ago on a demo account. these are two chart of the exact same time of the GER30. One is in M5, the other in tick data. I edited the tick data in order to visualize the dashed line of the ...

FXCM Discussion

Read the last three pages, there you will get personal experience.

FXCM Discussion

See at "Real Brokers Review" url also read this: url What do you guys think of Real Brokers Review? Besides the fact, that the same strategy can at vary between commission and spread based compensation and by the size of your trading capital, I ...

Reality of FOREX: my experience with brokers + share yours

Hello and thanks for this very informative thread! I have several questions. Maybe some of you can answer them. I am interested in Swissquote, so... 1) What do you know about the average slippage of swissquote during non-news time? Maybe you can add ...

Reality of FOREX: my experience with brokers + share yours

Hey Jason! I have some questions. First the simple one: Is there any chance to get historical Data of more than 15000 Bars / Periods? I use FXCM trading station and this is the limit. I ask this because I need M5 informations on currencies, ...

FXCM Discussion

Thanks for the reply! I understand the calculation for the opening prices. And what you explained ist the calculation for the forex market, right? I am talking about the GER30 CFD. And here I found a discrepancy on the 22nd and 25th of July (the ...

FXCM Discussion

Hello Jason, I am using the FXCM trading station on a demo account and I have a question. I don't understand why the prices in GER30 differ from daily basis to 5 minutes chart on 25th of July. Same is true for 22nd. For example on a daily chart the ...

FXCM Discussion