Even if the BOJ stops and the rest of the world’s central banks continue to raise rates, you can still get killed on the carry trade. Carry trades only work when risk premiums are low, which they have been for some time now. But keep in mind that it ...

Are Carry Trades Wrong?

Where did you sign up for that?

Stop Losses and Money Management

You don't. Unless or until you can account for every factor that influences price, you have no way of knowing exactly where price is headed. Your only opportunity for long term profit is to find something that occurs frequently enough to have a ...

Stop Losses and Money Management

Have you tried the standalone app? You can get it from fxlab.

OANDA Discussion

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Currenex

You need a break. Go take a walk in the park and relax for the rest of the day. Your confidence has been challenged and the only way to get it back is to gain perspective. Your doing a great job so don't go getting all discouraged. Your system has ...

Simplicity is the Key

Stick it out brother, you should see 120.25 before the options cut. If it gets to 80 its probably dead though...

Simplicity is the Key

More like 50 or 100 years or more and there are many things that stay the same. One example is interexchange arbitrage. Gold is traded in like 20 different markets and someone needs to keep all those prices equivelent. Changes have had to be made in ...

Does a strategy that works for the rest of your life really exist?

Why does the system work? If you have a solid answer to that question, you can determine if your system will last forever or not. Some things about the market change and other don't. Build a system that captures an unchangable market behavior then ...

Does a strategy that works for the rest of your life really exist?

EG, you seem like a smart guy and I think it's great that you’re working on your discipline. I'm concerned that in the process you’re going to ingrain some new bad habits trading this way so let me take a few minutes to point out some things you ...

Trade Plans by EG

Predicting direction is so much trouble... You make a good arguement but I would caution that predicting a 400 pip drop based on a tech pattern is probably a bit of a stretch. One positive USD event and your chart will get blown to hell. If you feel ...

USD/CHF

Ummm... I think your a day early.

BoJ Rate Decision and Fukui speaks at 1:30 EST

Welcome to Stopfest 2007. Yeah you should avoid this market.

Simplicity is the Key

Dude I have that grill.

The HOLY GRAIL

Why is it that everyone seems to want to use trading to cure the world’s problems? This isn't charity work. Let the third grade public school teacher’s work on saving the effin manatees. If you’re not focused on becoming filthy rich, the market is ...

Automated Trading

It depends what you want out of it. If all you want is the orderflow and the headlines, FXCM is probably good enough. The commentary and event calendar (with the range of estimates) are nice if your into that sort of thing, but I wouldn't consider ...

Order flow

You can count on it.

Simplicity is the Key

Well yeah, I know who it is. I'm a big fan myself. It looks like there is some text on it (by his ear and lower on the other side) that sparked my curiosity. It might just be lines though. I'm not sure... And I have been keeping tabs on yor ...

Simplicity is the Key

I don't mean to ass up your great thread, I just wanted to mention that the new avatar is cool. What are the words on it that are too small to read?

Simplicity is the Key

It depends on what kind of order flow you’re talking about. As was pointed out by notouch a bank or similar type market maker (including retail shops) can see all its clients order information including stops/limits. You'll never get complete access ...

Order flow