Putting it all together — I think some of your electric light has finally filtered into my dark room of ignorance and I've picked up what you guys get up to here. Man is this a popular thread! I think Jim's gonna have to watch his viewing ...

Cash & Carry

Time to be have a punt — Well I think the economy is fairly steady even after the pretty sharp Oct sell off in stocks. I think Merlin said inflation is on the rise a little. I have no experience of the US Housing market so I'm guessing it will ...

Central Banks Watch

FAO Beachie, linuxtroll and, er, everybody else I suppose — I'm thinking of downloading one of the linux distributions. Has been a while since I built a linux box and that was with redhat. Right now gentoo and ubunta look good and I've read ...

Best operating system for 4X trading?

Generally the noise comes from the fans - CPU and A/C. For the CPU you can try and attach a heatsink instead. If the fans are old then they might be wearing out: they are after bits of plastic spinning on top of a motor after all - so you may need ...

How to keep a trading system running while computer is turned-off?

trade up man - you know it makes sense!

Show your workstation!

LOL!!!!!

Show your workstation!

If you stack 'em up maybe you can double up to 28"

Show your workstation!

comparative analysis — just seeing what my system would of done...i will try and keep these postings to a minimum...jim, do you mind me doing this?

james16 Chart Thread

There are some interesting articles on this forum on the wisdom of just using candles or bars for trading...do a quick search and read 'em all. I would hesistate just to base my decisions solely on either, particularly on small timeframes (less than ...

I'm loving Candle Sticks, newbie's check'em out

How big is your monitor? — Does size matter? Is bigger necessarily better? Who has they mutha of all setups? And how many screens do you watch at once? Let us all coo and gasp in awe at your setup... OK mine is a 19" TFT widescreen, ...

Show your workstation!

Wow beachie you sure know your candlesticks! I would add to the list patterns like evening/morning stars which are kinda like Jim's pinbars, harami, thrusting/piercing. Also continuation patterns like 3 advancing soldiers or 3 black crows. I ...

I'm loving Candle Sticks, newbie's check'em out

great article, you should of sent me a copy before i started my own project! i like the way you break the data up into 4 units - will keep that in mind for further testing!

Lessons Learned during System Development

Yes I'm thinking along similar lines...live account with Oanda and charts from IBFX. On IBFX my demo is still going after 30 days and I think you can recreate another quickly if it does from the MT platform as well.

OandA or Interbank FX for 1st live acct

LOL! This post is over 17 months old!!! I wonder if he's made his fortune yet!

Forex trading

I'm finding that I'm liking Oanda more and more nowadays. The charts are a bit primitive but I can use another feed anyhow. The findings you quoted, is that based on a report we can check out..?

Oanda platform driving me nuts!

trading with blinkers — where have you read that? i'm not saying you're wrong but i find them more reliable if they are built on price! my main gripe with a lot of these indicators is that since they are just functions of price they just lag ...

EURUSD

Congestion is just another term for price consolidation or ranging... Your chart and Narafa's show similar setups.

EURUSD

just my take...could be basing at your suggested level for congestion

EURUSD

on the weekly looks like its in congestion heading down...

EURUSD

Watch your back — Also if you trade less liquid pairs (non USD majors for instance) then you can have a similar problem. Even within the majors the EURUSD and USDJPY are the top two, with the GBPUSD close behind the Yen and the USDCHF a poor ...

Rules of the jungle for Newbies