Hey turbo, any luck getting time and sales data out of odl? That would be more telling...

big orders - what happens

Setup a dynip account and use remote desktop to connect to your home computer.

Simplicity is the Key

I would be willing to bet that this 10% is either lying or simply do not understand the question. Even after achieveing a measure of success and consistent results, the negative emotions will still present themselves from time to time. There is a ...

What's your negative emotion that you're most prone to when trading?

LOL. Yeah every thread with "stop" in the title attracts my attention.

Stop placements?

(Nod) Best advice I heard all day.

Good Friday NFP

Or you could arb the crap out of them.

Compare platforms

For fear of the 5% who would eat their lunch for them. It's like setting your takeprofit at 10 pips and your stop at 200. Yeah your going to win a lot, but that rare loss is going to bankrupt you.

The pumpers and dumpers of forex

The answer is... it depends. If your working with someone like forex.com and you need system automation or backtesting solutions, your not going to be able to get it from the broker platform. You'll either need tradestation or metatrader to do those ...

what are the advantages of using currenex or metatrader rather than the brokers platf

FXCM Currenex is not real Currenex as it's commonly discussed by members of the forum. Currenex is an application just like metatrader. Most brokers who offer it (ODL, PFG, Etc.) have several banks providing direct liquidity to the platform that a ...

FXCM Discussion

I hear that. I wind up sleeping away most of the weekend just so I can catch up...

What's your negative emotion that you're most prone to when trading?

In real time? Get a job at a bank or other market maker. Thats about your only option as far as that goes. You can get excellent info from www.ifrmarkets.com They also provide the info directly to the FXCM platform. Setup a demo account at FXCM and ...

Market Depth

For the longest time I referred to a loser as a "failed trade". While it was true that it failed to generate any profit, that wasn't very helpful in establishing self confidence in my trading ability. Now I make a hard distinction between a losing ...

most common reasons for wins or losses

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Faster System Learning...

As a professional stop hunter I can assure you that your decision to enter a stop loss order doesn't make the slightest difference in determining whether you will be smoked out of your trade or not. If you are a technical trader people like myself ...

How do you recover your losses?

(Snicker)

How do you recover your losses?

Green dots for this guy!!!! Nice post brother.

most common reasons for wins or losses

Your approaching the subject from the wrong context. While it's true that at some point a profitable system will "recover" all your previous losses, that is not it's intended purpose. The intended purpose of a profitable system is to generate a ...

How do you recover your losses?

When your dealing with that kind of money you don't have to trade on margin. You can negotiate credit lines and only keep settlement funds with your broker.

Why aren't Big Banks jumping in on forex?

It was written as it was for a reason...

Simplify your system

Operating from the premise that you actually have found a 100% accurate trading opportunity, yes it would still be worthwhile. IF and ONLY IF it were 100% accurate, you could trade it at 100:1 or 200:1 leverage and earn 10-20% ROI per event. Based ...

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