What has been said in this thread might seem obvious, but I'm not convinced a war would have much effect on the yen at all. First of all, Japan wont fight North Korea. If N. Korea goes to war it will be against S. Korea and the USA, they wont want ...

How will North Korea's threats influence the Yen?

Typical of Forex Factory. A legitimate question in post #1, A legitimate answer in post #2, then post after post of unnecessary crap.

How to find big investors who invest more than $10 Million

Not many people trade options but when they do, it's often with massive volume. Since they must be settled at a particular time you can sometimes see big orders hitting the charts - if you do follow options but don't have the equity to trade them ...

Currency contract options feed from CME?

This. A friend/trading mentor of mine trades currencies for a large financial institution. I told him about Forex Factory and his reaction kind of told me that if he publicized any of the information being talked about here he would instantly be ...

To Good To Be True, FxStreet?

I would define discretion as a decision making process that occurs in the absence of fixed rules. If you have rules in place but ignore them, that isn't discretion

Define discretion

The most important question, is how much you want to risk on each trade. This depends on your reward/risk ratio - systems with a higher r/r win less often and need to risk less. When you know what percentage of your account you want to risk each ...

Best leverage and lot size for $1000 deposit

Then go for more pips, and reduce your position size so the money value is the same. The number of pips you target should be derived from price action on your charts, don't try to use a fixed number of pips across different pairs and in different ...

Are non-USD pairs reactive in nature from a technical aspect?

You are correct. Using a calculator, multiply the current price of eur/aud by the current price of aud/usd - the result will always be the current price of eur/usd. This correlation exists across all sets of three currencies. Instead of thinking ...

Are non-USD pairs reactive in nature from a technical aspect?

This is one of the main reasons almost nobody really gets rich in forex. If you would stop trading at a billion dollars, why wouldn't you stop at 900 million? 100 million? One million? Half a million? A hundred thousand? To achieve the dream of rags ...

What would you do with a Billion Dollar Forex Account?

Find another hobby. Less than 1% of traders have what it takes to make it, clearly you are not going to be in that group.

Crazy day and lost it all

Looking again your figure of $400/year per member is wrong too. 30% of a $99.97 monthly subscription is about $360, not $400. This makes it about $11,600.

New Affiliate Program beginning 2013! Unlimited INCOME

No you didn't, you made about $13,000 for the year. You didn't have all 60 members there for the full year - after the first month you only had 5 members.

New Affiliate Program beginning 2013! Unlimited INCOME

Not sure what you really mean by this. Are you saying we should chase every single loss and try to turn it into a winner? Never define or limit risk before we enter a trade? Trading is a game of probabilities, you win some you lose some. Nobody ever ...

Any help with AUDJPY?

You have dug yourself into a hole by getting deeper into a trade which has gone horribly against you, clearly you have lost control of it and need to get out. The more you try to fight it the worse you are going to get hit, so liquidate the whole ...

Any help with AUDJPY?

Japan's economy is very much export driven, and the USA is one of it's largest trading partners. When USD tanks it becomes more expensive for american firms to import from Japan, making japanese imports less appealing which in turn drives down the ...

US Dollar versus Japanese Yen

Retail forex speculation only contributes about 10% of the world's total currency exchange - the bulk of currency movement is via trade flows and capital flows which follow fundamental factors, in particular risk appetite. Price charts are merely ...

Looking at Exchange Rates in a Scientific way

Maybe, it depends on where you live. In most countries with Capital Gains Tax I think they would be happy enough if you declared it on withdrawal, since a lot of brokers are international your government won't see your account balance. I have never ...

Should drawdown include tax?