Thanks David.

In FOREX, is 10% return per month good enough?

It's a shame to hear you are calling it quits because of a platform change but your logic that lead to this conclusion is sound for your situation. Did you ever find a strategy mechanical enough to be automated or after your experience do you ...

In FOREX, is 10% return per month good enough?

Nice thread. I'm interested in what unfolds. I've started looking into dynamic grids where their grid sizes adjust dynamically proportional to a factor like momentum. The results look good but grid results always do ;-) Doesn't stop bad entries of ...

How far can you go?

That's right. If Toyota wants to do an international deal and needs 100 million USD where do you think they get it from? They go to the big banks and the big banks say "Sure, it will cost you this to trade 100 million". They take 100 million and ...

career as a professional FX trader for hedge funds, banks, etc

It's not exhausting if it is automated. If it's profitable, well, I'm yet to see this without having some good order book information.

10 pips a day can make you rich quickly

I'm working on it! There are so many different "strategies" out there, and when I automate them, sure they worked for a year or so but nothing I've found consistently works for the last 10 years say and some of the draw downs have been way too ...

How did you find success?

People always say stuff like - don't go against your system - don't be emotional when trading etc etc So why don't we just automate everything and win all the time?

How did you find success?

I'm interested.

Any Rookies need some help

I think price action is a bit of a fancy term to just mean price change. Trending, Ranging, Swinging could all be different types of price action. I guess by trying to label them, and believing they will continue, we no longer believe it is random ...

Again! Specifically, what is price action?

If you have a good backtester, it's easy to put together a strategy that is profitable over some period, but it is never profitable over all periods, so you need to adjust your strategy. So you need to be constantly learning and tweaking your ...

Help! What is the actual holy grail in forex? I'm tired of losing