PLEASE consider this: Say you hedge the same pair, on a subaccount, instead of using a stop. I know folks say its the same as a stop, and it adds spread costs. GRANTED... (I only daytrade..to avoid taking my exposure to bed.).. ...

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

I wouldn´t be so sure calculus...the world is so crazy...I think black swans can happen to any non pegged underlying...5000 days is not much...just 10 15 years of trading...if you get busted ...there goes your Money and a decade of trading .... ...

Building an equity millipede

This issue is so BIG, somehow more and more people need to put their brains into it.There´s a lot of brain power alone in FF.:nerd: Just imagine you become profitable and start making real good money..years of hard work, busting your eyes in front ...

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

FAR FROM TRUE...that´s just wishfull thinking...brother...

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

EXCELLENT POST SKILLZ!!! You share my concerns...The reality is OANDA will never give you a written CAP, cause their own ass is at stake...! YES being invested 100% of the time increases your risk exponentially..cause black swans do happen. ...

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

WRONG: stops are NOT honoured after majour black swans!!!!!!!!!

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

I´m not able to logon either, since 40 minutes, funny, cause I´m scalping profitably....In the moment I would move my stop to BE on a short position on EURUSD,, and I´m very close to my Take Profit...but I can do nothing!!!! What a shame!!!!!!!!! ...

OANDA Discussion

Correct me if Im wrong...but in my opinion theres a majour flaw in the milipede strategy:LEVERAGE. If you are invested on multiple lots or mini lots...multiple.... What happens if a big news like the one on CHF hits you, with an 800 pip ...

Building an equity millipede

Interesting piptrade....!! Im profitable after 15 years of fight and hard study..scalping 5 minutes..on my way to tripling my account in 6 to 8 months... I stay away from news...trade in between, so no chance they can spike me out on spreads.. I ...

OANDA Discussion

AWSOME mw didn´t expect soemone to come up with it so fast. Great job, and yes, it´s good results... Interesting to see a 52,94% win rate...sounds realistic.. THANKS for sharing.

Monthly Profit - Daily Trading using SMA

And last but not least...just to have traders drooling over the weekend... If you have "only" 50 winners. If your winners, on average, double your loosers. If you get 20 trades a month and risk 1% per trade. THEN: you should make, on average ...

Monthly Profit - Daily Trading using SMA

This system is crying for an accurate Back Test...from an EA wizard! (not me...I have no programming skylls) 1 Identify a basquet of, 10,15,20 pairs...hopefully non correlated. 1 Run the test. 3 Adjust parameters..? Shouldn´t be that difficult to ...

Monthly Profit - Daily Trading using SMA

Reminds me of the "turtles", decades ago...a MA system, people claim it is still slightly profitable... The point being, is they knew they had to take each and every trade, cause that one big winner could make it or break it for the whole year!!!!!!!

Monthly Profit - Daily Trading using SMA

The markets trend, then they chop, then they trend,randomly... Some of the biggest moves occur after (a random ) period of chop... Random periods can be measured in history, say with fibonacci time counts....where one could expect a "high ...

Monthly Profit - Daily Trading using SMA

Hi BK8 thanks for sharing KISS (keep it simple and smart)... Did you consider equalizing your postion risk? Since you have an OANDA account, you are free from lots..(1 unit is your lot)...So you can calculate, trading from the OANDA plattform (and ...

Monthly Profit - Daily Trading using SMA

For over a week now, very difficult to logon the oanda live platform, I trade witho anda since 10 years, desktop and laptop, never been so bad...java up to date, no popp up blocker, everything running well, in my fast internet PCs, no luck, ...

OANDA Discussion

Sounds like driving a car full speed ahead, eyes closed...hoping for the best...chances are....your broker must love you...my advice...STOP...

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