Ouch dude, I'm just trying to be helpful... I get the odd bit of extra info from pepper, and I like helping and sharing with the community here. :/ I haven't traded with many MM type brokers outside of Oanda (in the pure-MM sense,) and even they ...

Pepperstone Forex

Of course, gotta factor in average slippage for any broker.. a fact of life in the forex world. Hence me saying 'execution quality' in that previous post.

Pepperstone Forex

Thanks for the comments on my thread. I'm assuming this is something you noticed from you current broker, not pepper, right? If I read your post correctly that is. I may not have experience trading with which ever broker you're using so I can't ...

Pepperstone Forex

MyFXBook has a great tool for monitoring spreads... For the longest while they didn't have the new Edge servers up to monitor, just the older servers, but I emailed them about it about a week ago and they added Edge. I won't link directly to ...

Pepperstone Forex

switching 'mobile' for 'tablet' in the URL seems to work as well: url Looks to be the tablet interface.

Pepperstone Forex

Lookie what I found: Appears to be the mobile version of their new web trader package, in HTML5 url Obviously you'd be accessing this from your smart phone, but since it's HTML5 based you can load it up in any modern web browser as well.

Pepperstone Forex

Great work! I see your target area, are you going to scale out of the trade along the way up, or hold out for that pocket supply zone?

AUDNZD

image Ding! Thank you come again... Now just let the last bit trail as long as it wants.

AUDNZD

That's very alarming. Like, extremely alarming. Not the slippage part, but the broker saying they chose not to execute an order of yours for any reason other than it violating the trading conditions they've posted. Regardless of what side of the ...

Cancelled/gap on trade

I got back in long AUD as the pull back slowed and it touched the former resistance area. Took less size, and broke it into three entries to get an average price, but still less risk overall than the first post news trade. Two are about to hit TP ...

AUDNZD

First some bad NZD numbers, then some positive AUD numbers... AUDNZD gets jacked up a bit. I didn't make a play on AUDNZD, but I did grab 9.1 pips off AUDUSD long post release. wanted more but it seemed to be struggling to stay above 1.0420.. so I ...

AUDNZD

Hey, off topic but I like the bid/ask quote lines you have on your chart, looks better than the default MT4 lines that stretch across the screen and print in the price axis of the chart. That one of your indicators?

Is this the reason why you don't want to share your Holy Grail?

Taking the Algo offline for major news has been a lifesaver. Doing it again today. Even though price might move for me if the algo is in a directional trade, the risk isn't worth it, and in reviewing the fist week's performance where a news release ...

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Yeah, it would be even better if they both were to be released at the same time. I'll be looking for some volatility post news for some scalping setups.

AUDNZD

Welp, my gut was right. Most AUD pairs jumped ~40-60 pips within a second. During the rate announcement (and they held rates instead of going with the analyst forecast of lowering.) While that wouldn't have been a disaster, it would have potentially ...

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I tend not to focus on hit rate alone, and rather look at values like profit factor or expectancy. Your hit rate when taking the average win vs loss into account seems really good BTW. Right now, my strategy has a hit rate of 78%, but it wins less ...

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Possible in theory, but automated systems at large institutions and banks completely dominate this strategy and crush out any opportunities faster and more efficiently at the tier of trading (trading direct between banks and large institutions)... ...

Triangular Arbitrage

Thanks! Well, speaking of semi-discretionary exits.. there's news coming up soon that might drastically affect the algo. I'd normally let it trade through the news release, but this is one that has people expecting a rate cut while there's still ...

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Standard has a 1 pip markup from the raw feed (Razor) but no commissions. So the difference is exactly 1 pip wider spread, same way the old (non-Edge) spreads worked between Razor and Standard.

Pepperstone Forex

2nd Update — Ok, time for another performance update. I think I'll keep these weekly. The last update covered performance from the initial start date to Oct 26th. This update will cover the period from Oct 29th to Nov 2nd, this past trading ...

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