There's a difference between skill-based returns and high-returns acquired through taking higher risks. Just saying.

Attempt: $100 - $1,000,000 in one year

Trading is not quantum mechanics. The trading equivalent would be random walk theory or the efficient market hypothesis. The presence of highly competent traders such as Ed Thorp, who managed to achieve an average annualized compounded return of 19% ...

Uncertainty Principle & Forex

Nope, you're wrong. If the quotes on EUR/USD are 1.3512/1.3514 and I want to go long, i get the ask price of 1.3514. If I want to get out, I have to close my trade at the bid price of 1.3512. You only pay the spread ONCE.

Bid and Ask, do I pay 2x spreads for each trade?

Pretty generic advice: "indicators and chart patterns are useless, journal your thought process, put in screen time". A lot of words but in actuality there's not much substance. Googled Zias Masri. He runs a website and offers a "professional ...

My progress as a full-time investor & trader

Since you're showing off your MT4 trade report, you might as well link a trade explorer/myfxbook. It gives you more credibility. You can lock the balance/equity and trade history if you want to maintain privacy.

Attempt: $100 - $1,000,000 in one year

Did someone get burned? Do people really believe that you can make a fortune by looking at horizontal/squiggly lines and memorizing silly patterns. You can probably train a chimpanzee to do all of that. It doesn't really take much intelligence to ...

We were fools to believe candlesticks can predict

I cringe every time someone talks about the market like it's a person or something. Guys, for the love of god please stop doing it, it's creepy.

When the hunter become the hunted

Thanks for the reply, but I'm talking about visual mode backtesting in the strategy tester. I don't think it will let me skip to a date that it hasn't generated yet. edit: nvm i found a software.

Display more historical data on charts in MT4 Strategy Tester?

I thought that was a given? The question here is whether it's probable or not. If you have already been on Forex Factory for this long it's impossible for you to be oblivious to the answer. "Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer ...

Can you honestly earn a good living or even get rich through forex?

My sentiments exactly. If you're not in need of money right now and have confidence in your trading skills, why even bother withdrawing money? You'll just impede the process of compounding.

Withdraw or reinvest my capital?

Hello GreyWhale. Open your terminal in MT4, select account history tab then right click on it and save as either report or detailed report. Have fun with it .

Can anyone tell me how to pull a graph of my trading performance

i'd say it's the latter.

Charts on Drugs or works of Art?

( Equity =< Used Margin ) or if Useable Margin is =< 0 = Margin Call Useable margin = equity - used margin Example: If your balance is $10,000, current open position is 1 standard lot on EUR/USD and leverage is 50:1 this is how you calculate the ...

How to calculate risk?

Hello Supertrader, Sorry for prying but I'm curious about what happened to your live account during Oct.1-4. It seemed that you were doing pretty good up to Oct.3 but you suddenly busted your account in a day. I have no idea about what actually ...

Proof That Ultra Profitable Trading Is Indeed Possible

okay — Guess i should have seen that coming. There is no centralized exchange for the spot market after all. Thanks for replying to this thread anyways guys.

Forex Market Liquidity