err.... — in usd jpy eg: 118.84 price is almost equal with 10100 pip in gbp-usd or if in micro lot 10100 pip = $101 so if i trade 1 micro lot with $102 equity (multiplied as necessaary), theorically i can hold the position for eternity (lol) ...

The Evolution of a Trader

how about salmon?(salmon goes up stream to lay eggs) — caviar is expensive, no? (caviar is salmon's egg right?) so that the one who can go against the market will have the great one? that if translated as carry trade will be fit more ......

Follow the trend!

aaah , last year thread.... — why put stop loss in loosing side? it is better to be used to secure our profit and let the position open and running. and for the oposite side, forget taking profit.( still try to implement it, ) in some market ...

Movements of Forex, and using a stop loss

you can't have it all? — some broker good at execution, some have good spread, some have good swap, good news service, ect, if you know your trading style, then you can choose the broker you like... i choose ibfx too, for swap and micro lot ...

I am going live in less than a week, need help choosing a platform.

oh, easy — split your lot to 10(mini), then you can tank 16.000 pip, or split it to 100 (micro) so you can tank 160.000 pip. get ready to watch 100 more open position.

Arbitrage with no-interest broker

err.... — exsotic for carry? ussualy exsotic are traded for volatility.... maybe crossed pair ? do compare the daily high and low with the swap, it may sound good to have 2 pip swap per day, but the dailly movement is like a year swap. maybe ...

Best Broker to Carry Trade "Exotic" currencies + EA + any CT FAN?

err.... — to avoid all of our money evaporate, we tend to take the profit regulary . so should it happened, we can have another sum of money to put back in. more and more i think, the chance i blow my account is bigger than the broker chance ...

Finding a Broker: Discouraging me from trading

if it unwind — more and more people will follow the trend, and it can last for days or week, so, i presume it is not about how big the carry is, but how long it goes, ussualy until a good news break the trend?

How much YEN is in the Carry Trades?

err — here in indonesia, a PDA can be priced higher than a workstation of pentium III complete with scanner and printer, ... the small keyboard killing my nail..... and the small screen is killing my eyes.... i still don't like pda.......

Trading on PDA - Windows Mobile or Palm OS

the fall?(not purely self opinion, but.....) — if there is trend, then there is fall, people react faster when they smell loss, so the fall is affected by recent / in going trends. since people already put the position, usually less people put ...

markets fall faster than they rise

err... — while we use broker that lend and borrow, some people just change their saving to diffrent currency. so they don't pay bank interest nomater where the market goes. so it is now not a pair, but a true money, in single currency which ...

Are Carry Trades Wrong?

a forgoten way — if your position is intended to be 1%, but now 2%,..... double your equity, just keep adding the equity,,, or in demo account, start with the smallest one.(smallest lot, smallest equity)

Leverage Q

errr — ask a japanesse friend to loan in Japan, transfer it to you, you transfer monthly to pay that poor jap friend. i guess it is 0.8% a month? for safety sake, not to loan more than 2x your own equity, so the payment is easier. not free, ...

Leverage!!

instant winning? 3x eq in a day? — that way i feel lucky but not success. yess there is greed that devour our nerve and rationale. that's why we keep journal, to remind us again and again , and again, even if we bored.

When do you feel successful as a trader?

aaah just find that — adding the loss pool to cover it all, the Martin gale technique, should i add few technique? in gbp jpy open two part of buy and one part of sell, that way you hedge half of the position, when it moves down , wait till it ...

Swap Trading System

aaaah , another dead thread — it is interesting to answer something that maybe unecesarrily answered. not all broker do that,, some replace it with commision, some just widen the spread. and there is allways a search button , on the up-right ...

Swap

maybe differ with every broker — IBFX pay at +22:00 GMT no pay in saturday and sunday, and triple the wednesday swap. with DST (Daylight Saving Time) it is paid 1 h earlier.

Question about Swap payments

aaaah a long dead thread... — Ps: we can still study regardless we have degree or not. degree is only a proof that we already study and qualified. and we don't need to proof that we are a great trader, other than to ourself. the market didn't ...

Graduates vs non-grads in trading

by calculation, — min profit about 0,4% from equity per day (holiday not counted) till next 10 years.... and after that 10 years, 0,2% per day. i think i can start pull out some equity starting next year about 20% from my profit per month. and ...

When do you feel successful as a trader?

with ibfx broker you said? — that means in a perfect hedge you loss $0.6 per day, if hold for 365 days, it would be $ 219. if we let a positive only to run ,we got 2 x 365 = $730 per year, or 913 pip in Gbp-jpy. i count & use that 913 pip as a ...

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