I wasn't around when Jacko was but from what I can tell: Jacko was an infamous member at ff, he started a great thread teaching others about trading, sorta like james16. At the beginning all was good, he was posting returns and gaining trust with ff ...

The life of a trading system on Forex Factory

It was just some sort of glitch on the spread watch program. Being only an stp they can't hit a minimum 0 spread, ecn brokers can, I've even seen them do negative spreads.

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Well there's two types of inflation - regular at 1-5% per annum and hyper inflation, one is expected and not worrying (look at a historical chart of US inflation for the last century) and the other is economically terrible (Germany, Argentina and ...

Newbie question about economic indicator

Oh right you are I got carried away, a little bit of inflation is fine, it means that businesses are taking loans and the economy is growing, and with an increased monetary base the fed or individual banks can offer higher interest rates to attract ...

Newbie question about economic indicator

Regarding the news, it is an indicator of economic activity to come, the more expensive it is to buy imported goods and services, the higher the incentive is to buy domestically made goods and services as they become more cost attractive, thus ...

Newbie question about economic indicator

You mean a chart like this? I found it while browsing a messy chart thread somewhere here.

The life of a trading system on Forex Factory

Depends on sl's and tp's... Volatility is the distance price moves in a given time period compared to it's historical range of price movement, more movement in less time = high volatility and visa versa. So the price you see will move often and move ...

Need explanation about volatility

Here's a small thread on FF about that error And here is the metaquotes page about it Since it's been 15m, if you haven't already I'd try simply closing and restarting the platform.

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OK the simple un-optimized HA Final ea works better, from 1k to 61k over 10 years, averaged out that's 51% growth compounded each year. Wonder what the next 10 years will bring

Follow the trend on high timeframes - The holy grail?

Glad to see your view on the Turtles has changed, keep it up. Like the simplicity. What other indicators did you look at before landing on the heiken ashi? There are other indicators that smooth out volatility to a greater extent than the HA, like ...

Follow the trend on high timeframes - The holy grail?

If memory serves correct, a while back GoM had to change liquidity provider because of too many tiny orders at the same price ie scalps and scalping eas, the lp at the time had lots of trouble getting fills.

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Not to mention they also have a swiss banking license and have been around for over a decade.

Which Broker is truly reliable?

Think this will help:

knowing when price is going to move x amount of pips at an exact time

The closest you could get would be to look through the Commitment of Traders Report released periodically by the CTFC, you can google it to read more about it and browse this forum too. Essentially it shows you the net long and short positions of ...

Following Global Funds positions?

I think I get what you're saying, there's a good thread at Babypips.com in the newbie section titled 'What Every New & or Aspiring Forex Trader Still Wants to Know', in the first post is a humbling and calming statement that makes a mountain into a ...

When to break the 2% rule?

Hi Alorente, why are you opening an account with Pepperstone? I'm wondering because you already have an account with FXpro which seems to be much better, ecn spreads from 0, level 2 market depth and negetive balance protection, and a much bigger ...

Extreme TMA System

In the Broker Discussion sub forum there is an active thread about Pepperstone fx, in the past they have reported connection issues, best bring up your query there.

Extreme TMA System

He did not persuade the casino to give him a positive expectancy game; "When Johnson and the Trop finally agreed, he had whittled the house edge down to one-fourth of 1 percent, by his figuring." And the 20% loss discount only kicked in after $500k ...

Are you a consistently profitable trader?

Personally I think testing a robust un-overoptimized system over 200 trades is a fair start, however there are guys on this forum that say at least 1000, 10,000+. They claim that anything less (presumably would mean) you're being fooled by ...

Are you a consistently profitable trader?

Just went through the updated legal docs from GoM, here are some stand out lines: - Minimum balance to open account is now $500 - Office hours are 7am to 9pm - Will not pay interest on credit balances, but will charge interest on debit balances - ...

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