Yeah, I hear you there. I can write all I want explaining the mechanics of the market and stack of financial institutions that make up liquidity, but in the end some brokers are outright shady and rip people off, leading to traders accusing everyone ...

Broker Manipulation

Futures have a level 2 and a wide span of underlying markets covered. Currency futures are available too which follow the spot price movements pretty well. Most futures brokers provide live data to demo. Amp Clearing / AMP Futures gives out free ...

Market with order books available?

Let's not beat the guy up; he was asking a question not making a statement.

Take a Loan to Trade?

+1 I wouldn't even read them, might give you a bias.

Aussie Trading Room and Cartoons Gallery

I know eh? My mind is always churning with ideas I'd love to try out. This has lead me to build a few websites (educational in nature,) start learning German, start coaching friends with various goals they have in life, constantly finding tasks to ...

What do you do in between waiting?

After spending the last two weeks focusing on the EUR/USD, I entirely forgot how much I love trading AUD/$ and AUD crosses. I'd hug them if I could. So instead, I'm just going to exchange some cash into AUD and frame it on my wall. Love the plastic ...

Aussie Trading Room and Cartoons Gallery

Holy crap NO! CP did a good job detailing why, so have others in this thread.

Take a Loan to Trade?

I distract myself by working on other projects or writing long-winded, example filled posts on this forum...

What do you do in between waiting?

I've had no issues myself, processed it within a business day from when I submit a request then it takes a few days longer (typically 3-4 days in my experience) to hit my account. I'm in the EDT/EST timezone, so the only real delay is waiting half a ...

Pepperstone Forex

I'm not sure how to respond to be honest, it just sounds like you're being confused by noise. I mean, I understand what you're saying, and I get that it must be frustrating if you believe this is happening, but it doesn't make logical sense to me ...

Broker Manipulation

LOL... well, it's your money, I just feel more intensive testing should take place before capital is put at risk. But good luck in any case

Average -EA - On test

Can't say I agree here, since liquidity providers can't see positions, account balance, or any info of the trader directly... all they get is the retail order flow to fill. Like, price by size numbers and that's it, the broker handles matching order ...

Broker Manipulation

29 trades is not a sufficient sample size to justify trading it live. How far back did you test? Are you testing from tick data? Only forward testing for 2 days? Will that even give you enough time and sample trades to consider it 'tested'?

Average -EA - On test

Ok, I'll give this one a shot, despite the wall of text and open ended questions How? In FX, mostly by trading your own account since leverage and costs at retail brokers are good enough to facilitate this (that is to say, you don't need to ...

Can you FX trade for a living and if so how?

Good Luck!

Liam and Dave's Trades

Too many. ~20-50 depending on what strategy is working best for me. However, there's no right answer since your strategy will tell you how many times you will be trading... Some really talented and profitable traders I know trade once or twice a ...

How often do u trade?

Sometimes the depth info doesn't display, or takes a few minutes to populate. I noticed this on mine as an intermittent issue, and was told this helps fix it.

Pepperstone Forex

In MT4, opening a new chart on a pair you've never viewed before will take a moment as MT4 has to download historical prices for that timeframe. Same thing happens when you go from a higher to a lower timeframe that you've never loaded before. This ...

Pepperstone Forex

Been hammering back and forth with Pepper's support over the last few days in setting up a side account to take a few EA's live that I've been working on, and I found out a few things worth noting: Demos for Standard accounts are up and running. ...

Pepperstone Forex

Think it's more for institutional clients or businesses / funds that use Pepper. The email address on that page suggests so anyway. Probably just doing the brokering between investment management firms and client's capital... I have no idea what the ...

Pepperstone Forex