Today's US ISM Manufacturing came 35 minutes earlier :S Has such thing ever happened before??

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Yes, now I see it was an error. What speaches do you usually straddle? I tried to look for ones that the prices goes in one direction but didn't find any good ones...

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Does anyone know how come that FNG already has the actual numbers for tomorrow's US fed rate announcement?

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Happens to me a lot

AmazingEA: Straddle Trading Expert Advisor

Happens to me a lot

AmazingEA: Straddle Trading Expert Advisor

lol you're not alone.. Read the Barry Batista's blog. He's really good at explaining such things

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About half economists thought it would hold and half believed it would be lowered. That's why the forecasts differed. So I've set sell usdcad on 0.75 and buy on 0.50, because if it stayed 0.75 cad had to go up, being "glad" that the rate wasn't ...

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Hi, Alan! Something really strange happened to me today during UK's CPI. The AmazingEA was set to PointsAway=100, STWAN=2. I'm almost sure I saw the sell order get triggered, but no trade in the history center and in the journal there's nothing ...

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Do you guys know anything about using a mobile connection for spike trading? I only checked the ping and with my provider it's even faster than my wired connection. But the question is whether the connection itself is consistent (meaning ...

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I've already had a virtual straddle EA (that sends market orders at a pipsaway from the price) and it worked absolutelly fine on a live account, but it's broken now As for sending pending orders couple seconds after the news, it can only be for ...

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You're right And thanks!! AmazingEA has just made me 14 pips on UK's employment change even though it wasn't even tradable this time. My broker did gap 6 pips at the opening though, so it made the buy stop placed about 15 pips above the Ask (my ...

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Alan, could you please please please add the next option to the EA? When we set SecBMO=0 can you make that the last modification happens on the 1st tick of the news candle, rather than on the last tick of the previous candle? I think it happens ...

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Ok, Alan, please correct me if I'm wrong. I've just tested it with SecBMO=0 and I see that the last modification took place not on the first tick of the news candle but on the last tick of the previous candle. Does it mean that in case of a large ...

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Hi Alan and everyone! Just 3 questions: 1. Is it not possible to test the AmazingEA in the Strategy Tester? 2. It takes to my broker 200ms to modify the order (I'm 80ms away from their server). Is it fast enough to prevent me from being filled ahead ...

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Please add cadjpy to the fixed account. It's absolutely essential!

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And how come you've let most of the Sells trigger before the time of the news? Isn't this exactly what we usually try to prevent because before the news it can go in the wrong direction?

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Could you please explain? I don't really get it how you do it. The sell positions were started by the AmazingEA? And what are the buy stops? I see they worked as a stop losses.. Anyway I'm confused Please explain...

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Is it better to claim from FSCS or from Alpari or wait for ETX? And how can I know if I want to trade with ETX if they don't have a normal demo account?

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Guys, can anyone recommend brokers good for our strategies? Live account experience needed. I still haven't found a suitable broker since Alpari UK went broke. Tried Activ Trades but it totally sucks.

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could you please explain more? First you said that i should expect more slippage in regular orders compared to pending but then you said that I shouldn't expect slippage with regular orders if the broker is good and the connection is fast

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