cash if you want to be really defensive; fixed income etfs maybe. if you're feeling aggressive, very small doses of foreign index etfs, especially australia. But please dont take advice from strangers on the internet..

Good funds/etfs to be in right now?

mt4 uses ridiculously little bandwidth -- you can probably get a monthful of tickdata for a gazillion symbols for the same bandwidth it takes to browse youtube for 5 minutes. I suggest you dont browse youtube or other video sites

Consolidating Metatrader feeds?

Metatrader charts show the BID price. Your sell order would have been closed at the ASK price; are you sure that price passed your take profit line by at least 20 point (2 pips?)

Fx Pro Just Broke My Heart

hate to state the obvious, but iceland and the UK arent exactly euro area countries.. You could have mentioned Fortis and Dexia and Hypo... Anyway, I can assure you that big european exporters (automakers, airbus and so on) are very very relieved ...

Please EURO Stop it..You are Embarrasing yourself.

Kondratieff theory does indicate that this bear will last longer. There are also some demographics factors (baby boomers retiring, lots of them) that point to a prolonged depression for equities; only a major advance in productivity or a war could ...

100 years of Bear Markets...end of Tunnel is...

Thats weird, I've run my copies of MT4 off USB drives repeatedly and they always worked flawlessly..

Running MT4 from a flash drive

right after the red line, 00:58 server time (22:58 london time) 50 pips or so these usually happen between 2200 and 2300 london time, im guessing its something going offline for the "night"

What caused a spike on EUR/USD at 5.58EST?

I saw it too, on two brokers. you can see it clearly on 1M charts

What caused a spike on EUR/USD at 5.58EST?

you got it backwards, at expiration you sell your long contract at 100 and buy the next one at 100.11. And you gotta do it yourself, your broker wont do it for you. The difference (0.11) is supposed to be the cost of carry (and it usually is for ...

Contango and Backwardation Calculations (Rolling contacts)

Hello Famagusta, do you just apply your system to the underlyings and then trade options or do you have option specific strategies such as High OI / High IV etc etc?

Trading Options... What I've learned (the hard way)

I am sure your brokers love you all

Hedge trading spieler system derived from futures spread trading

Basically every sound you play will stop any other sound that is playing, and the same goes for alerts. One workaround is to insert a pause using sleep() after each sound if you're in an EA. In indicators sleep() doesnt work and you need to use some ...

Need programming help with alert() + sound()

ActivTrades has Spanish,Swiss,French,German,US,British and Italian indices as well as the bund and T-notes. Possibly ODL (not sure they have the DAX though)

MT4 broker offering DAX, DOW, Oil & Major Indices

you should definitely diversify across asset classes; forex is really 90% about where the dollar is going. Or try some very exotic pairs... how about CZK/MXN ?

Diversification problem

It does. Assuming all objects are placed on different bars, you can try adding Time[0] or Time[i] to their names.. (0 if youre adding them in real time, i if its inside an indicator thats also placing them in the past) kind of like ...

Why is my code not creating multiple objects?

are you changing the object's name?

Why is my code not creating multiple objects?

Do Post the statement, or maybe just a description of what you bought, for how much and how much you sold it back for. Never used ig, would you be so kind as to send a screenshot of the relevant option trading screens?

Forex Binaries

Im not using this EA; however it is based on H1 charts and thus it backtests more accurately than EAs based on lower timeframes.

Show your best EA

sure it can!

Can A script place more then 1 pending order

1) oil is inversely correlated to the dollar + 2) the euro makes up more than hald of the US Dollar index = 3) the euro and oil move in tandem

Why is EU correlated with Oil?