Wonderful thread, i must say the fx market is getting pretty bad recently, volatility getting lower and lower month after month, year after year. On the other side, indices are Always wonderful, with an average range of 100pips daily and a spread of ...

SPX and DAX - CFDs are the place to be

I guess, the market price would be something like this: 150.50 150.40 150.45 (or) 15050 150.45 150.40 You get it, the same thing happen on the fx market, and in all decentralized ones (so far we can say all markets are in some way decentralized). ...

Understanding value

I like to think about pit trading floors, where we have many people screaming and making gestures. What happen in detail, trader "A" want to buy, he look at the screens, and see that the current price is 150,50. He decide to try to buy 5 contracts ...

Understanding value

That would be another thing if he do manage other people money, and make profit that way (i had know a few managers that did something similar, in fact soo many money-managers do money that way), but if he plan to trade his own account, well i ...

Market-making HFT algorithm

So.. you pay 10/20$ more on every trade (the bigger spread), and get part (or in the best case all) these costs back via rebate. I guess the only happy one here is your broker eheh

Market-making HFT algorithm

Dude, forex trading can be a very hard way of living, but blaming the broker will not get you any good results. I trade with fxcm from many years, and belive me they are one of the best broker in the industry, the spread is good, there is never ...

Market-making HFT algorithm

"my" formula to evaluate system strenght (especially during optimizarions) is: roi * number of trades \ maxDD the number of trades also is important imo, the more the better! eventually when doing optimizations, i went for this: roi * number of ...

Alternative Reward to Risk Ratio for Trading System Statistics

Why not try like this: open a trade (buy or sell is not important, even the chart is not important at all). Put a stoploss at 100pips Put a target at 1pip enjoy your 90-95% win Ratio

Share Something Proven - Scalping Method Please

what you are looking for, i'm afraid it doesn't exist! profitable/proven win ratio?

Share Something Proven - Scalping Method Please

Perhaps there is something that you ALL are getting wrong. First, there is not exist a consistently profitable/unprofitable trader, a trader itself is the guy that place the orders on behalf of an investor (you). In other words, if you now call your ...

Response to "Please, 95% of traders don't lose their accounts!"

to me is a sell my friend! 3475 is still calling

Fugazi - Order Flow hot data

i don't really trust this breakout, got some eyes on today and yesterday highs.

Fugazi - Order Flow hot data

eheh, well overall his RR ratio is good though, maybe (maybe, i've no idea really) he may get stopped on this trade, but if he can keep a constant rr ratio soo high and manage to have enough winners, he surely would (is?) profitable in the long run. ...

Fugazi - Order Flow hot data

you should know by now, 99% of retail traders trade against every trend. 99% of retail traders loose money always. That's how this world works. And that's also why i stopped trying to somehow "help" people on the forum, most of them don't want to be ...

Fugazi - Order Flow hot data

don't get me wrong, you have a pretty good R:R rate, so overall seems ok good luck though

EURUSD

so you are buying a falling knife (a strong downtrend) with a 30pips sl and 200pips tp. Looks good!

EURUSD

that's a nice sell you got there! we are in two making this game (milking the eurusd) good job!

Fugazi - Order Flow hot data

hey still playing around? i thought this thread was dead eheh, good to see you

Fugazi - Order Flow hot data

volatility usually kick-in at the beginning of london session. someday at beginning of german-session, 1 hour before london open. someday at the beginning of london session someday one hour after london session has begun and then, again for ny ...

Trading Volatility - Events Like News Releases?