Remeber that when you look at your pretty chart and click buy you are looking for someone to sell to you. You broker is doing just that - selling to you. If they did not you would not be able to trade!!! THIS IS WHAT YOU PAY THEM FOR!! - if they did ...

Broker reverses $20K winning trades for alleged latency arbitrage

For me number 4... But I would add that instead of trying to beat your demons - sit down beside them and learn their behaviours and co-exist with them, pre-empt them, know what they will do before the fact but most importantly learn to love them for ...

Your Trading Struggles - What is the biggest factor?

Gents, Thanks for your straightforward answers - I guess I wanted to know if stop hunting was predominantly a prop type activity or was incorporated into larger sell side operations. Thanks for your time. Regards BBCMicro

Is anyone here an institutional trader?

Quick question if I may.... when hunting stops do you hunt the stops purely for the 20 or so pips profit or do you do it as part of your inventory management operations - eg reducing liabilities etc. Regards

Is anyone here an institutional trader?

I think you are confusing pips with percentages. Rerun the logic but use percentages instead of pips... (not all pips are equal!!) Regards

trying to understand the market

A few years ago I funded a small acct.. 1:1 RR 16 losers on the trot (zero'd the acct) obviously I took heart from this as all I needed to do to get a good edge was reverse my entries!!! Refunded the acct again (small) 15 losers and 2 winners... ...

How long was your longest Losing streak?

Cindy, I think we've all been there - I certainly have and I'm sure others have too. I have turned a corner in this regard in the not too distant past and I put it down to being able to forgive oneself. Its very easy to get angry with oneself and ...

Trading as I know it...

If your system has a positive expectancy use up to the amount defined by the Kelly criterion url If your system has a negative expectancy then risk zero (Demo) Simple :-) BBCMirco

More risk, more profit: is it true?

haha... no not particularly... just thinking out loud as it were..... BBCMirco

What brokers do Professional traders use? Do they have any problems?

eurscalpr, You make a very good point. The broker must be principle otherwise I guess I would have to have a credit arrangement/agreement with a variety of interbank participants - unlikely I think you'll agree! - I think we therefore 'offload' this ...

What brokers do Professional traders use? Do they have any problems?

With regards to Alpari check the following link out url check the order execution policy for all account types. They state in no uncertain terms that they are the acting principle to all your trades (regardless of account type) - I think this ...

What brokers do Professional traders use? Do they have any problems?

Yes the assumption is that you have an edge (many most likely don't in my opinion) This shows that with an edge though it is still possible and even likely you will lose money. How can this be possible - if you have an edge? because the equity ...

Do you have the balls to Lose, But not the balls to Win?

This type of situation happens all the time. Its basically the fallacy of being in control and that you are some how responsible for the outcome of a trade. A profitable trade can only occur by the actions of other traders. Not your actions. If we ...

Do you have the balls to Lose, But not the balls to Win?

I'm gonna back up the dummy here - If you can't demo trade sucessfully you absolutley will not trade profitably live. If you can demo trade sucessfully then you will probabely still fail to trade sucessfully live. I'll go against a what a lot of ...

Hi! I’m Mr Short and I’m a bad forex trader! (the AA for bad traders)

ORDERFLOW!!! long @ 1.27280 SL 1.27000 TP 1.33000

EURUSD

Considering giving up? Read 'The Dip' by Seth Godin. Its only £10 or so from Amazon. Well worth it in my opinion. BBCMicro

At What Point Do You Give Up On Forex

Ah yes I remeber well the hours of typing in games from the likes of Beebug.. and of course the hours of debugging your mistakes later... a mis-spent childhood? most likely...

1:1 Risk Reward Ratio - Why it just makes sense

Its all about expectations! — I promised myself I wouldn't get dragged in but now its too late 1:1R is a perfectly legitimate way to trade. and I personally trade similar ratios the majority of the time. My edge is based around market ...

1:1 Risk Reward Ratio - Why it just makes sense

EURUSD short — 5 pips or so from the top... Just exited. Best thing about the trade? 17% or so risk at 18 pips.. result 134% on the acct... nice start to the week image

Smexy Trades

Does Support and Resistance exist? If people think it exists then it exists as long as they act out their beliefs in the market. Having said that I ran up a few simulated (random) charts in Excel a few years back and you will see support and ...

Do you believe in Support and Resistance?