Thoughts on exiting a trade that has yet to reach a take profit target: One common thing I see with most systems is the fixed take profit and stop orders regardless of how the trade plays out. I've always felt that a strategy has to be simple, but ...

Jack's Automated System Development Journal

It runs as an EA on your chart. It won't affect any existing positions you have, unless you click the "Close All" button, where it will then close all positions for the pair you have on that chart (regardless if you opened the position via the ...

Pepperstone Forex

I have my CSC, and a few others... It would be of no use to you unless you want to have an entry level job at a bank (Financial Services Agent level, retail banking sales, etc..) Nearly all of the material wouldn't apply to forex trading anyhow.

Getting licensed - CSC

To be clear, the topic was brokers "figuring out your trading system", not trading against you. That's an entirely different conversation. If a broker sends off-market quotes to your platform to triggers tops, (that is, not a glitch or bad tick that ...

Do brokers have complete access to your trading system?

IMAX 3D is better. Saw a space film on that once, trippy stuff.

LMAX = revolution?!?

Good weeks all around I love how this thread gets when there's nothing to complain about

Pepperstone Forex

If you're just going to trade gold and silver, some forex brokers aren't too bad (you're already covered pretty well by Oanda.) But if you want to get into a wide range of commodities then forex brokers usually turn to CFDs that track the futures ...

Brokerage Opinions

It's just not part of a broker's core business. Processing trades is a near risk-less way they generate income, and it's very profitable, why would they commit capital to anything that has risk when it could be better served expanding their core ...

Do brokers have complete access to your trading system?

Wow.. this is a bit beyond paranoia. Ok, a few things: Brokers execute your trades. Forget charts and settings, they have your trade history in full. Save from splitting up execution between multiple brokers, they can figure out your strategy if ...

Do brokers have complete access to your trading system?

Some like fixing the level but adjust over time to compensate to recent trading conditions. Others use a variable to dynamically adjust the levels to suit the current market. ATR is one popular variable for this... but remember, you run the risk of ...

New Approaches to Creating EAs

*cough* (Seriously though, if someone wants to explain the possible edge of binary options to me, feel free (and I don't mean repeat a broker's marketing points, I've read them all.) From a straight probability and math point of view they are skewed ...

Binary option broker?

It's that time again! Friday update! (I promise I'll post more useful content than just updates of my account soon.. just been busy as heck lately.) Notable Changes: Took down the demo experimental account I mentioned during the last update, as I ...

Jack's Automated System Development Journal

NinjaTrader It will cost you, but it's worth every penny. It will also be able to manage nearly every type of market and product that IB provides, not just Forex.

Alternate trading tech for Interactive Brokers

No. Execution model doesn't dictate how the broker makes revenue. Non-ECN, STP, MM, etc... aim to make revenue from a spread markup: ie) they pad the spread they get from their liquidity providers. Look at FXCM's NDD STP as an example, they pad on a ...

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

Flatten all.. like a panic button. Some platforms have a "flatten" button that, once pressed, closes all positions and cancels all orders. This is kinda like a "oops" button in case you messed up and need to remove market risk quickly, or, something ...

What do you need in your trading platform?

Thanks! Now we just need someone with a blackberry to comment. (or Pepper can actually make these apps official and give instructions on their site, that would be ideal... *grumble* lol )

Pepperstone Forex

Why'd you make your Trade Explorer for your live Oanda account private then? A wrong account number is a clerical error, you must have gotten that corrected to complete the transfer.. or why don't you describe in detail what your problem was?

OANDA Discussion

Oanda picks up "Best FX Broker" award by ForexMagnates url ..

OANDA Discussion

I use imgur.com Save the image to your desktop (or wherever.) Drag the file icon directly into the website, which will then change to show "upload". Drop it on the page, the site will get the right file path to use, then click the upload button. In ...

AUD/USD

WOW.. hit my TP right on low tick before powering up like that. One pipette lower and I'd be out of luck. 0_0

AUD/USD