The basics: Lets look at the chart. A few things you may notice immediately. 1 - I use a black background. I find its WAY less stressful on my eyes. 2 - I (almost exclusively) use Range Bars. Ask me the reasons and I'll share. But not here as I ...

ALSI 40 Index - Trading the South African All Share Index

A quick google confirms your point. Best not put 'trader' on the spread bet application form...

UK tax position on trading profits

While I am not an expert, residents of the UK have the option of opening a 'spread-bet' account with their broker which does not attract ANY tax. The UK is one of a handful of tax residences that permit this, including Australia if I am not ...

UK tax position on trading profits

Latest update: First Column is the Pair/Instrument - Second is the popular term I use for it - 3rd column is the latest price - 4th column you can ignore (white numbers) as I use them for my own calculations - 5th column (Orange Numbers) is ...

Average Daily Range Table (ADR)

I have a small FX account I dabble with on OANDA and I got this from them this morning: "Dear Valued Client: Early on January 15, 2015, the Swiss National Bank (SNB) sent global financial markets into turmoil with a surprise move to eliminate its ...

OANDA Discussion

Ha ha, I typed it in the context of the chart I had open...the old reptile brain saw red

EUR/CHF

By my maths this means the CHF has 'gained' around 15% of its value in seconds...thats not the sort of thing one sees every day...I see news reports saying in some markets its gained as much as 30%...

EUR/CHF

That's just another way of saying 'I use a stop-loss'...

EUR/CHF

A mere 44 pip slippage...I consider myself fortunate...

EUR/CHF

Not currently living off FX profits. Haven't traded FX on its own since last year. However, live comfortably off a handful of indexes so it's 'doable'.

Are there any full-time traders that are living off the FOREX profits?

Indicators are as varied as they come. I believe one should find one/s that have a good following, have good support and are well established and then you should become a relative expert. As for all asset classes, so far I have been able to modify ...

How to detect the end of a trend?

At the risk of oversimplifying...just use multiple moving averages...they provide a great visual cue on the nature/strength of the price action. The wider the lines apart, the stronger the trend. I am also a strong personal advocate of range-based ...

How to detect the end of a trend?

Hi N-P, My scripts I wrote are only for my personal trading system and are limited to 1 Day, 5 Day, 10 Day and 20 Day ADR's. I can also do a total over a set period up to a year but I'm struggling to get it tabulated. I'll work on this for you and ...

Average Daily Range Table (ADR)

PS: Anyone wanting a particular pair, please DM me or post the request in here.

Average Daily Range Table (ADR)

Its been a while, been mental with work and trading: ADR's continue to climb... image

Average Daily Range Table (ADR)

A quick question: Are you trading a live account and how are you finding liquidity/fills on wheat? In other words, how many lots are you trading?

The power of range bars

Ill answer this this a little differently. Right now, avoid FX. You'll make more trading any number of alternative instruments. Good luck.

Is forex the best investment?

Oil Brokers - Suggestions, Comments, Compliments, etc — Hi, Can anyone recommend any good Oil contract providers for their respective regions please, along with any insights as to why you feel they are good/bad/indifferent? The obvious one is ...

Brokers with Crude prices

03 September '14

Average Daily Range Table (ADR)