Ok For me it all boils down to intent. If you are trying to get something for nothing then it could be gambling. I know people trade Forex in a gambling style. They want the "Holy Grail" system, they trade without stops, they prop up failing ...

Trading vs gambling

As much as I admire Paul, I got the quote from the comedian Larry Milller in his routine "six stages of drinking (seven if you live in a trailer park)".

Toilet Hugging Trade Promises

Thanx for the link

Custom backtesting code

I like the charts. I am only demo now and I have seen some glitches, especally on fridays, but remember that they have a whole seperate set of servers and software for their live accounts. They use the demo accounts like a high grade beta tester for ...

VTTrader: Cms

"And this time I mean it!"

Toilet Hugging Trade Promises

I find Python to be an easy language to use for API programming. I have VT trader and am messing about with the API now. With your background you can pick up python in a week or two. And the best part it's free. Just go to python.org and downlaod ...

API programming

Hi: I am an old Pytonistia. I've done some C stuff, but not in Forex. I am just starting to hack the API for VT Trader in Python. I havn't had this much fun since the pigs ate my little brother. Any tips and colabroration would be cool!

Custom backtesting code

Just jumping on the bandwagon, right in the middle of the durum section. What Dialist said is right on. I am as old as dirt and have done a lot of training in my time. I have seen the same thing over and over. I best experienced it myself while in ...

Help@ info overload!

My wife and I go round and round about this topic, so it is a favourite of mine. What we are doing is speculating. We are making an educated guess about where the market is going and backing up that guess with cash. To me it is no different than ...

Trading vs gambling

The way that I understand it, VT is just a platform. They are not a broker. There are several brokers that use Visual Trader, CMSFX being the main one. Most people that I have talked to only have experience on their demo server. I am trying to get ...

I can't understand this enormous spike...

If you follow John Carter closley, you will see that in his "box play" he likes to set up on both sides of the box to avoid the "head fake". Depending on the direction the breakout goes, one setup becomes the stop loss for the other.

box play

Spike? — I saw the same spike and wondered about it too. I just have a demo account with them and am aware of the fact that they use seperate servers for demo accounts and live accounts. The live servers are more robust and less prone to ...

I can't understand this enormous spike...