Duh! Just noticed... the time zone in MT4 is different than my actual time zone. Disregard my ignorance.

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I was looking at my demo account, which is with FxPro and it sure as sh*t shows a move up (see attached). My live account (Oanda) does show a dip. Scary, since I use FxPro for charting and Oanda for live trading.

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I agree. You can open a FX account with $500 and enjoy 1:100+ leverage right off the bat.

Margin

If you're looking to stay in a trade for more then a few minutes you might want to use the hour chart to give you a higher level view of trends. I'm not saying to trade the H1, but have it up and use it as a filter. Depending on how long you like to ...

Why cant i find Long setups?

Different strokes.... I'm an introvert and find the prospect of trading full time in a room alone appealing. but.. I've worked for various companies with large trading firms (equities, commodities, and FX). In an institutional environment like that ...

Isnt a service career more satisfying then trading?

It looks like the problem I was running into has to do with the spread fluctuating. I didn't realize that it will change as often as it does and was assuming a .9 spread in my calculations.

Help with calculating P/L

I look at the '1% rule' differently. I am only willing to LOOSE 1% a day, which is a lot different than restricting open positions to 1% of your balance. If you don't have a stop loss on that 1% position you can loose much more than 1% during a huge ...

Trading with trends

I'm very much a newb at this myself. But what I found in doing the same searching that you are currently doing is that - and I know this sounds counter intuitive - the more information I surrounded myself the worse trades I made. I think that once ...

Where do I start with my fx education?