I use IB for the following reasons, 1. Free API 2. Regulated 3. Commissions are cheaper than MB 4. If you look on the NFA lists, they have one of the biggest capital bases 5. Range of products (basically everything you can trade) I'm not as familiar ...

Interactive brokers or hotspot?

Interbank is the best of a bad bunch (MT4 brokers), every morning I get up and see the holes in my charts were 'technical difficulties' must have kicked in. As ever, you get what you pay for.

Interbankfx platform gets frozen.

There is no hard and fast answer, as it depends what you want to do. You will have to compare platforms & commissions, flicking through hotspot's site, IB certainly are more up front about pricing.

Interactive brokers or hotspot?

The only way somebody learns the martingale lesson is when they blow all their profits (and/or account) to hell. Here is a article that's worth a read url .

Is Martingale really dangerous?

I see you got your grumpy reply from 'rosh'. He's a real charmer that one

"expert function calls are not allowed" (?)

Did you try posting on url ?

"expert function calls are not allowed" (?)

I've done data mining studies on inside bars and I couldn't establish any statistical edge. Part of the problem is that the bar structure is different on different data feeds, the other is that it doesn't really tell you where the price is going, ...

Inside Bar Trading Technique

Then maybe system is a bad name, the '5/13/62 entry' may be a more appropriate name.

5/13/62 system by Rob Booker

My opinion for what it's worth... Anytime somebody starts attributing the success of a system to the voodoo of 'the trader', I would think twice about using it on real money, because that's just another way of saying 'the rules of the system are not ...

5/13/62 system by Rob Booker

Oh well, I guess we will find out!

Pips Du Jour

Fair enough, I'll rephrase the question, what leads you to believe it has promise?

Pips Du Jour

How do you know it's profitable? Do you have statistics?

Pips Du Jour

That's a large and complex question to which nobody is going to be able to give you a simple answer. I would suggest going over to url and having a look at some of the expert code there.

how to program an expert?

I watched the MATLAB link, MATLAB looks like an awesome research tool, but those MA/RSI models were just curve fits, you can do that type of optimization in MT4.

High Frequency Trading!

HFT is kind of a hot topic at the moment, as such, I don't think anybodies going to be giving any secrets anyway, your kind of touching on the vast world of automation that lies beyond the MT4 sandbox. I suggest you pickup some books of Amazon on ...

High Frequency Trading!

I'm obviously not Merlin, but here's what I found... It depends what you mean by 'feeling uncomfortable', if it means that your systems are not generalizing well then you need to decrease your system's degrees of freedom. Also (you may well already ...

Question for Merlin

Yep

Soultrader's Clinic :)

You can autotrade using the API, the problem is that this API does nothing but start up the navigator in the background. The navigator is not fault tolerant, disconnections will crash the navigator. The other problem with the API is that you can ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

Out of sample testing and statistical inference.

What's your edge?

Your skepticism is well founded, I have done a lot of back testing of trend EAs which looked at multiple time frames & I never once found that going with a higher time frame trend made any positive difference to the profitability (most times in fact ...

Multiple Time Frames & Multiple Markets