Charts are themselves just a mere visual indication representation of what has happened to price over past time, and where price is right now. Whether or not added technical analysis indicators are placed on a chart. Traders are lucky to break even. ...

The History Of Real Time Chart Based Trading

Thanks. Basically i suspect that because your MT4 charts broker knows your username and password, they can login to your MT4 and see how the desktop and charts are laid out/set up. Not that it really matters as such as how would they know how you ...

MT4 privacy questions

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New MT4 demo account installations on new PC

Good post jedi, completely agree, which means also not trading a financial instrument that can lead to negative balances, and having spoken to a few brokers negative account balances are perhaps more common than many would imagine. The good news is ...

Negative account balance recovery process

That is not relevant to this discussion. And as i understand it, the price movements you see on a spot forex chart are not really due to human actions, but Automatic computer algorithms. So good look with making any true sense of what these unknown ...

The History Of Real Time Chart Based Trading

You may have a point. But there's also a good chance that you are are talking complete B.S. and that the info i have posted is valid and relevant no matter how much you do not want to hear my truths. Also, your toxic putrid abrasive attitude is not ...

The History Of Real Time Chart Based Trading

No offense taken, why would i take offense. For me, a blank candlestick chart on its own - just like a bar line or candlestick chart plastered with one or more indicators that are used for trade entry and trade exit decision making purposes - is/are ...

There is no such thing as technical analysis

url And like i evidenced in this thread, it seems computer based charts and TA, are a very recent invention since PCs and the internet, and so dont have a long proven track record. Yet most of the major financial markets predate computers and the ...

There is no such thing as technical analysis

LOL you just demonstrated one of my points with a cherry picked curve fitted screen shot, with a whole range of nonsensical indicators on the chart that are completely irrelevant to the price movement on the candlesticks below them. So why not dump ...

There is no such thing as technical analysis

In my opinion, any chart based trading strategy using conventional chart indicators like - bollinger bands, MA's, RSI, stochastics etc, which covers the vast majority of trading strategies that people share on forums, is GARBAGE! as they just ...

There is no such thing as technical analysis

I agree Nabz here is what i said on my latest thread earlier today - url TA works great with hindsight, so people can post cherry picking screenshots of what they would/should/could have done after the event, but before the outcome was known they ...

There is no such thing as technical analysis

url So basically real time (and all computer based) charts are a very recent phenomenon in terms of widespread availability to and use by people. Also there is not a lot of evidence that chart based trading consistently profitably enough is ...

The History Of Real Time Chart Based Trading

As an example - So from this i am guessing that real time (or any type of computer based download dependable) charts for financial markets did not exist prior to the release of the internet. But still, technical analysis has a long history, and ...

The History Of Real Time Chart Based Trading

Did computer based real time charts (and all computer based charts that require a data download update, even if only end of day charts) only come into existence around 1992 when the internet was released to the general public?

The History Of Real Time Chart Based Trading