OANDA froze during the GBPUSD 700 pip meltdown...and reopend after half was recovered! The question is: how did they handle stops, people had set way before and above... 1 The original stop? (unlikely) 2 Way at the bottom?? (that would be ...

Building an equity millipede

OANDA froze during the GBPUSD 700 pip meltdown...and reopend after half was recovered! The question is: how did they handle stops, people had set way before and above... 1 The original stop? (unlikely) 2 Way at the bottom?? (that would be ...

OANDA Discussion

Look at this aussie 15 chart. The black line is a clear level everyone was waiting for... Big Banks manipulate the market, as you can see they had 3 clear stop runs before it made a decent move, which is still on. The game is so clear, the market ...

THE only Pattern

Don´t know, I use 50:1, and get it in my hedge account, and calculate my position size carefully...including avoiding a margin call and or negative balance in the evnt of a black swan.. Wonder how people with hundreds of trades on a milipede ...

Building an equity millipede

Just chatted with OANDA, they confirmed that if you are long and short hedged...say 20 pips distance (like an unrealized stop...your stop would have trigered, but instead you lock your trade and wait for the next opportunity...)...and recover, or ...

OANDA Discussion

Who told you the money is no longer in Forex??????? Wonder what happened last night to hedged trades in Cable , 1 to 1 OANDA ?

OANDA Discussion

Oanda offers hedging accounts/subaccounts...since a few days..!! I opened a hedged live subaccount yesterday...very interesting...if it works as promised...I´m Long EURUSD with a pending hedge 20 pips away.. EXAMPLE: If I go Long 1000 Units, and ...

Building an equity millipede

I opened a hedged live subaccount yesterday...very interesting...if it works as promised... I have a question for Mr. OANDA Rep. If I go Long 1000 Units, and instead of a stop I open a hedge , same size,20 pips away, just like a stop( if the pair ...

OANDA Discussion

AND, there´s documented stories in the web, about traders who were on the right side of the EURCHF on that day....who though they were rich... Check this: their Broker (a big Name, I won´t say it), returned them their Position days later, ...

Building an equity millipede

"So in the case of a long Swiss trade with a 40 tick stop risking 10 basis points and assuming you went long at 1.2040 and sold 1.0000 that would be a 2040 tick loss, call it about a 5% loss on your account."........ Sorry Calculus but I don´t agree ...

Building an equity millipede

"If that happens (which happens all the time during news spikes), you will still end up with negative balance on one subaccount. " Yes but Brokers do take money first out of a subaccount that is in the positive, to equalize Margin Calls, actually ...

Negative Balance: Is it possible to know how bad it could get?