I noticed that too. But I never liked how the unemployment rate was calculated. Maybe all those people will file next month! If it gets revised upwards, will probably still be a bad number is my guess.

Today's NFP report

Yea, it's like whole building is gone all day. I usually go on their homepage to bring up their charts for a quick look at how things are too. Oh well, People want reliability and all, but this is the first time I've seen this in a year being w/them ...

CMSFX Servers Offline

You're obviously not in Florida where all the apartments were converted to condos, supply dried up, you had to sign up on a waiting list, and rents increased from there. But then again, we don't have landlords. We have corporate run apartment ...

Are Central Banks driving the World Economy into recession?

Whoa, stop the presses. I didn't know energy wasn't factored in. Actually, isn't food part of the consumer price index thing, don't they use that too? I have more learning to do than I thought. If energy wasn't factored in, I figured rising energy ...

Are Central Banks driving the World Economy into recession?

The permanent record will get you everytime!

If 95% of traders fail.....

MrFuture, Thanks for the UBS link, That's an amazing looking place they posted. Otherwise, what you said reminds me, that everything is relative, and it depends on your perspective. Everything in the world starts out boring and mundane, and ...

How to be a trader for a company?

There are different consensus numbers in different sources. I cannot say and don't know where FF gets their #'s from. I will give a word of advice. Be careful. I got burned on the last hike. Market reacted as a short instead of a long. As a ...

NZD - rate statement - help

I've zoned out after like post number three. he's complaining a broker/bank isn't allowing him to use and get his own money in his own account, and there's 15 posts talking about "perjury" and siding with the financial institution who may be acting ...

Getting flagged after a withdrawal

According to Thomson Financial:

How Do You Trade On a US Holiday?

It's a good piece. I always like the psychological lists, no matter how many times I read it. But I'm going to break with the group. It seems Forex gets a lot of hand-me down lists from stocks. The principles and mind are the same, a lot of ...

40 Bits Of Wisdom

Some, or maybe most people don't have an account size that can handle a swing of a few hundred pips in the negative. For this reason I check the weekly sometimes, but do not trade on it, and attempt overnight trades. Even with 80% success making ...

Weekly Charts Trading system-picking tops and bottom

I will vouch that Mister Doodi isn't a nefarious character. I have no problems with CMS. Everyone has different trading styles and maybe someone will see something that someone else hasn't, but so far I haven't seen anything out of the ordinary on a ...

CMS forex

CMSfx's software has a hedgebutton. So you can position long and short on the same pair.

Help me to make a list of brokers that allow hedging in the same account!

*sigh* This is turning into what's better. Would you rather make 100% on $500 or would you rather make 30% on $100,000? This goes back to the pip arguement, on do "pips matter in forex?" 100k is 200times more than $500. If I made 100% on ...

ROI on Forex

What do you mean by the bold though? Are you using 10% of your money on lots in the trade, or are you just risking that much in your account? If I have $10,000 and I use 10% of that to buy lots($1000), in my account I just bought 4 lots. At $250 a ...

:: Pips are not what counts ::

I never did this before during the first minute of news, but if you look at the candle at the NZD Interest rate statement, you can see where they took my dignity and pride and handed it to me on a plate. I'm not sure what events are safe to trade ...

Market orders + News trades = ?

url Newspaper article on the rate hike. I'm not sure if it'll have any long term effect really. These pairs seem to defy reality to me.

NZD - A disaster waiting to happen

Yet the rest of your post has pips 3 times a sentence in 3 paragraphs, and you're figuring out how much that money management is in dollar amounts and percentages by converting them from pips! Isn't that changing the term and definition to fit a ...

:: Pips are not what counts ::

Then I can't help you there. I don't know how else to say this, except pips multiplied by lots. Not all of us can trade the same amount of total lots. Least I can agree with you on this one. But I don't think the proper measure to compare one to ...

:: Pips are not what counts ::

Which would I rather.....Say I worked at the mall for $7/hr. The Doctor who had the money and grants to go to medical school for 4 years makes in one hour what I make in a day. So which would YOU rather? I'd rather spend a $1, get a lottery ticket, ...

:: Pips are not what counts ::