He's talking about interest credited every day by OANDA on his account.

Interesting penny counting at Oanda

I'm using the B-Line system from more than 4 years. I suggest not to change the original parameters, they are quite perfect. What you really need is thick bars, not minute bars. A thick bar is a bar comprised of, say, 100 thicks. This is waaaaaaaay ...

bringin sexy back - stochastics

Thank You for the explanation. I know it is not the same as number of lots, but what is important for using "volume" in forex technical analisys is the relation between "volume" readings from bar to bar. If "volume" increases together with price or ...

The volume formula.

Whatever it is, it's not useless. In fact it is doing the usual patterns (e.g. volume climax). Also the Force Index i also use in trading futures, is behaving the same way in forex, so it is of great use to me.

The volume formula.

I never used intellicharts, but the fact that there is no volume leaves very few hopes toward force index. You should look at the documentation, searching for all the standard array of data that are present, and see if there is a proxy for the ...

Divergence trading

You really need to RTFM :-) Metatrader is one of these software, but there are a big number of them. If you gonna trade forex probably Metatrader is the right start.

test trading strategies ?

Regarding myself i can assure i'm only an happy MB user, no affiliation at all. I say good things on MB only because i've tried some real forex bastards.

any live ECN traders out there?

I use divergence trading pratically in every trade. The standard macd histogram (osMa in MT) is great in finding divergence, but it's greater when used in more than one timeframe. I also (me too) use Elder force index, not to find divergences but to ...

Divergence trading

Mumble... volume could not be an indicator, maybe it's an option for the chart. If they don't have volume it probably because there is not volume in the data feed, since volume is a basic piece of data, like OHLC.

The volume formula.

Sure MT4 it's the best FREE platform. But it is nothing compared with some non free platforms (even cheap ones). The lack of flexibility in time frames makes MT4 not usable at all... well, at least for me, since i rely on arbitrary ticks and volume ...

Where to now?

I used the dukascopy demo for a long time about 1 year ago. I didn't like the platform. But the reason i didn't open an account with dukascopy, altough it was at the top of my candidate forex brokers, was that i saw clear "stop fishing" action on ...

any live ECN traders out there?

No problem. Does my english suck? :-)

any live ECN traders out there?

I trade with mb too, no single problem til now... but i've start trading with them only 3 weeks ago.

any live ECN traders out there?

A MAX system is not necessary newbie, if you choose it with knowledge. To be very short, automatic systems fall into 4 categories: 1. Trend following systems 2. Breakout systems 3. Volatility based systems 4. Market range systems After reading tons ...

What strategy do experience traders use?

You must use an ECN-like broker, like MBTrader, IB, HotspotFX, ... They have not fixed spreads, won't trade against you by taking the opposite side, and you can place your order even inside the bid-ask spread. Basically do not use any "broker" with ...

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