it is suffice for the computer. — even with 56 kBps connection is enough to sustain 40 open trades.. i try about 80 open trades in demo account and it is start to lag..... not to mention about hundred pending order.

MT4 computer requirements

maybe — if the back test win, it is not because it always win. but because it win in the end of the back test. or setup few account with a bit diffrent E.A. if one can win $1M, that will cover the rest .

My Journey to a $1,000,000

imagine all player use money management — and thus only use a tiny piece of their equities. if they see other oportunity, they can put few other position, and thus multiply the volume a few times bigger(that mean, the market actualy can move ...

more knowledge more problems

amen — yes yes, and if the swap is positive ,some call it carry trades. just keep adding that postive generating pips. with this way, is it better if you add the equity and replace stop loss with hedge??

Follow the trend!

not a recommendation — i use interbankfx., because of micro lot in mini account ( about $ 0.01 per gbp-usd pip) that's the best thing i found in a few month searching + a quite good amount of swap. sometimes the server is freeze, or down, they ...

MT Broker recommendations

something like that — with p / l % & equity , drawdown, dailly + a lil bit footnote when something big happening. with mt4 just ask a report from the system to a .htm file which is rarely being seen

Keeping track of trading activity

ok — i profit 0.1% a day i keep buying gbp-jpy, till some of it actually make 0.1%profit . i don't really care about the price. of course it has about -20% floating loss. i survived 3 month with this technique. will you do this?

What do you think of members who only share their trades way after they happened?

record on close — i only track the profit/loss, not how many trade, i split 1 trade into 4 or more to spread the risk, so it is difficult to track each trade, if i loss big, then i give a note why, and so if i win big. i consider event to be ...

Do you count trades when you open or close them?

i prefer yen — carry carry carry

Gbp/usd Too Easy

me confused too — so the problem would be, : how to profit more than inflation? even if that sandwich is now more expensive, you can buy burger which is may be cheaper since the ingridient is a bit differ. in gtf, you can change your base ...

How does one actually make money at forex?

gotcha — yes, i agree indeed . the question is a trap . remember that most broker need us to state that the money we put to play are not afecting our lifestyle.

how does this trader make money?

i never use E.A — i don't use complicated trading system either, it usually good when the trend is noticed. if you make your own E.A. you need more skill in following the market than average trader.

Is MetaTrader worth the trouble?

a silly way of thinking — in my way of thinking, floating loss is a bit less disturbing than equity loss. it is only psychological, but exist. equiped with hedge, i can realise the loss, step by step, easing my heart.

Same Pair Hedging, Am I Missing Something?

Some confusion in simple thing — eg, buy, if set for future value below present value will be called limit order and if set higher than present value will be called stop order,, if you decide to pick buy instread sell in one command, it will ...

Should a new trader use several methods?

eliminate the posibilities — since i don't want negative swap, i do one way trading. since i don't want stop loss, i calculate the margin to acomodate the bigest loss in a decade. since i can't calculate the profit taking and entry point ,for ...

The Evolution of a Trader

ASIA OPEN yen — Usualy swing till the news from -1h to 6:50 in +7 gmt and follow the news 1 h after , follow the global news till london open

That steady stream of pips....

leveraging the leveraged — take a loan from a bank and play forex...

Leverage!!

seem like R3 / S3 — i guess he/she aim rebound from heavy movement,

Ultimate Successful Trading Technique

BANK — REMEMBER LEVERAGE, 400 : 1? so it is 400 times easier to move the market. we only need few pips, and the chart always move up and down, what we feel like a working system may only a fake alarm.

This so called "self-destruction" of trading systems...

if 5 min before swap given by,try usd-jpy — on wednesday, 3 x 1,3 = 3,9 the spread is 2-3 pip yoou willll begin to feeel already start as a winnerrrr....

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