What the crap.. can't PM you... :/ I used to be able to PM commercial members, wonder what happened there. Was just going to add that it's equities only, and no remotes, and even if they let remotes happen, can't take on US citizens unless they have ...

The Trader Behind the Trade™

Ah, the only way I trust that is when it links you to Oanda's own login portal and web services, so you are authenticating with Oanda and giving permission to the 3rd party to access history, not giving the 3rd party your login directly. This is how ...

The Trader Behind the Trade™

The details I got was that an ISP within equinox "blew up", and it only affected networks who used, or crossed over, that ISP within Equinox (there are a lot of ISPs running services into, out of, and internally within NT4.. Oh do I ever wish I was ...

Pepperstone Forex

Investor login is for MT4 accounts only, and is read-only based (look up investor passwords vs login passwords, it's a platform feature.) He would not have access to your account on an execution or administrative level. That being said, while I ...

The Trader Behind the Trade™

I don't know if I've just been lucky lately, or what, but even outages have been working in my favor: image lol +4 pips of positive slippage on TP order. I'll take that.

Pepperstone Forex

You can't seriously expect to make it in this industry if you care about what small time investors and traders have to say. Herd mentality (or as I've called 'tribal thinking/mind' in my written material,) is a killer of many traders. It affects ...

The Trader Behind the Trade™

Everything's back, none of my trades were affected. Of course, if anyone's trades or execution were affected (like stops not being executed, or TPs not triggering) just contact Pepper and they'll make good on it for you. They've always been good ...

Pepperstone Forex

Connection is there, but the quote feed dried up for me. I chatted with support and they said they are on it Monday monday..

Pepperstone Forex

...wow, this thread sure changed a lot since I last looked at it. Umm... TPO, since I noticed you went searching for investors on EliteTrader, did you by chance check out rcapa or mickson's stuff? They're giving out a 1/10 cut of the assets they ...

The Trader Behind the Trade™

Yes, especially on news releases like non-farm, and even more so when dealing with gold (which in the last few years has been one of the news play instruments of choice for USD/Fed major news. Gold, after all, being used by big players to express ...

Pepperstone Forex

Speak not of the broker who shall not be named. For said broker who shall not be named is the reason LMAX was banished from the garden of the broker forum, and cast into this wasteland of commercial intent. -- That, and LMAX can do MT4 directly if ...

LMAX = revolution?!?

0_0 When news hedging goes bad; how the last few hours of January sorta sucked. image To be upfront: there are no excuses, the technical reasons and events surrounding the equity hit were entirely avoidable if I had taken better precautions or ...

Jack's Automated System Development Journal

Just noticed the client panel has been refreshed since the last time I looked at it. Refined interface, faster, me likes!

Pepperstone Forex

Their demo server is just different than their live, as in not the same physical server, along with the live server having to undergo a lot more work/changes since it deals with live accounts and real money. For instance, say they have to reset ...

Pepperstone Forex

Futures are a different animal, but the currency futures are closely related to the spot prices they are derived from, so it's easy to pick up... About work.. it's more of a small private firm than a 'prop' in the same sense we've been talking about ...

What Brokers do Prop Trading Firms use?

Reddit isn't a trader's community, it's a general social site. I'd say just 1 in 10 being aware of forex, let alone understand what it is, would be on the high side. A lot of the users asking questions were avid readers of Reddit AMA's, not FX ...

OANDA Discussion

The tick data I use takes up a lot more space to store but I ripped it with the bid and ask spread in tact, that way the TDS can use the actual spreads at the time of testing to do it's strategy tests.. so weekend spreads are no longer an issue. ...

Forex Factory Advice/Opinions on PC Attributes

You could use a tick chart indicator with MT4 if you have their MT4 bridge.

LMAX = revolution?!?

MT4 is single threaded and can't use more than 2Gb of RAM at any given time thanks to how the application was coded. That means getting a 12-core Xeon workstation class beast with 64Gb of RAM might not be the best investment of capital. MT4 also ...

Forex Factory Advice/Opinions on PC Attributes

Being Canadian I don't have access to see any of Oanda's CFDs and such.. so I can't say for sure. But what you mentioned would make sense and fit, so long as Oanda doesn't talk about monthly rollover, contango, or backwarden in their product ...

OANDA Discussion