Most retail brokers have their little cheats. I find the brokers that massively widen spreads during news so orders get triggered just because of the wider spread more annoying.

charting price doesnt match bid/ask

No, trading the news is not illegal, but it's not as easy as it first appears.

news trade illegal?

I'm no expert on brokers, but i think different brokers use different strategies to profit. Like you say they know most of the traders will lose money.

Who Wins Who Loses

It's hard to give a definative answer. It depends on the time frames you want to trade. Mostly I trade daily and weekly charts, but usually get my entries from the dailys. A lot people here seem to prefer much smaller time frames. I think it is down ...

Time Frame Confusion

a google search reveals url It will cost ya 50 bux tho

Technical Analysis Explained??????

I think the dollar pairs have a lot of dollar negatives already priced into them. Regarding the U-Turn. Often Central Bank chiefs often do not accurately predict the future economic conditions. There are just too many unknown variables. For example, ...

FOMC philosophies - post your opnions here

I agree. The biggest thing that fuels the FX market is interest rate speculation. It's a good idea to learn how what drives interest rate decisions.

Fundamental Trading

Big down day for the FTSE100? I think so..

Cesarnc's market talk, gossips, rumours & fun

Can you run MT4 on a virtual server? How do you access it? Pete

How to keep a trading system running while computer is turned-off?

heh, I've been on vacation and cable is almost exactly where it was when I left

Cable Update (GBPUSD)

hey folks.. been away on a sudden impulsive vacation with a friend! Back now.. Saint Berzer.. I have spoke to a lot of people who use the MACD indicator, I have never used it personally as I'm not a big fan of indicators, but that is just me. Hows ...

Simple 5 / 8 moving average crossover

it's sitting on my 38 fib.. 1.96-2.12 kinda area

Cable Update (GBPUSD)

some traders like to hedge there positions if they want to speculate a retracement. For example if a trade has a long term eur/usd position and the ECB hinted at a rate cut, the trade could open a short term short position to hedge a possible ...

Hedge

Possibly, we will have to wait and see..

Cable Update (GBPUSD)

yep.. I am aware. My longs are all b/e stops and inline with my strategy. Even if I get stopped, it is still a good trade, because I stuck to my strategy. Also, a few of my earlier longs have already TP'd. And yes, you are right noone know what will ...

Cable Update (GBPUSD)

no, up cable up

Cable Update (GBPUSD)

it's still a really nice head and shoulders pattern on the weekly chart.. I think a big crash down might be less likely now though..

Auslanco - GBP/JPY and GBP/USD (newstrade)

none that I know of!

Which MT4 brokers use EST (NY)?

I seem to have remember I have already told you off for saying things like this when I am long

Cable Update (GBPUSD)

2.05, 2.0550 and 2.0625 and a few others but they have TP'd

Cable Update (GBPUSD)