I have a mt4 demo with alpari uk and I trade live with oanda, and sometimes I wonder if there's manipulation, but both always have the same price with no unusual spikes on either, I have also had other demos and I haven't noticed anything on those ...

bad luck or manipulation ?

if you have margin available for other trades, then what I would do is set a stop at what I would consider my maximum loss, so that I couldn't lose any more and eat that bullet if necessary, and with the available margin trade like you would ...

AUD/USD Pls help me get out of this hedging MESS !!!

I'm thinking of selling the e/u and g/u also but I am waiting until monday morning to see how the market interpets the bailout news from the weekend, and maybe get a retracement before going long if the USD tanks. I don't know anything about mac d ...

Why Indicators will fail you

what do you think about the ATR? I'm thinking the market will be driven by the bogus bailout proposal and central bank intervention(s) that's coming up, along with investor greed/fear (sentiment), risk tolerance and the stock market, and last but ...

Why Indicators will fail you

it's a bunch of bs because the taxpayers are bailing out these companies, but there is no help for the taxpayers, we just get to pay for it. people are still going to lose their homes

'Financial Terrorism!'

the seller of the house — good question and one I've wondered about myself, I will venture a guess that since all of this started with mortgage backed securites, and initially with subprime mortgages, so if the banks were using money from ...

Who benefits from this financial carnage ?

I think that when a company should go under that by all means it should go under, after all what is the difference if there is a mess to clean up after a big company goes under or there's a mess to clean up to keep it from going under? not much ...

'Financial Terrorism!'

here is an article on support for resistance, technical analysis that was done by Carol Osler at the fed if anyone is interested

Why Indicators will fail you

each morning I check my 4 hour charts looking for dips/rallies for a general idea of what's overbought/oversold, then I scale down to the 5 and 15 minute charts for my entries and then I wait for the money to start flowing and I follow it with a ...

Why Indicators will fail you

near as I can figure, the usd/jpy is trading with the stock markets somewhat, and is a sign risk is more acceptable, when they do this more money is going into stocks and not bonds which will cause the usd/chf to drop and eur/usd to rise due to ...

why eur/usd and usd/jpy strange correlation same direction

you would be creating a 20 pip spread and if the market was consolidating or ranging you would have a hard time getting out of either trade without losing money, but you may take a small profit on a trending market. I say watch the charts, wait for ...

Hedging all possible currency pairs at once!

I wait for the new york session to open and the news to come out to get the momentum going, then I watch the stock markets, the dollar index and the usd/chf when scalping. the best thing I like about scalping is I don't leave many positions open ...

Chronicles of the Price Action Scalpers

this group can succeed if the group works at being successful, evaluating trades beforehand and determining why a trade lost, no one idea will make this group successful, it will have to be a collaboration of ideas. If 10 traders make a trade at the ...

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good morning everyone, back to parity on the usd/chf and 2.00 on gbp/chf? or lower?

GBP/CHF and USD/CHF

thank you peaches I see the downtrend to the bottom of the channel, you don't think the interest rate hike will reverse the direction? it's a tough call for me, euro interest rate hike is priced in so it'll depend on the statement and eurozone has ...

GBP/CHF and USD/CHF

article on thomsons says the seller of the option was trying to break the barrier so he didn't have to pay out, must be getting worried about the euro interest rate hike next week. I'm not sure how it'll play out when sydney opens right off, but ...

GBP/CHF and USD/CHF

I agree there's a drop coming, everyone has been calling 108 on the usd/jpy and now that it's been broken along with all the bad economic fundamentals in the us she's gotta go down. on the eur/usd I hear there's a couple do-not-touch barrier options ...

GBP/CHF and USD/CHF

peaches you seem to have a pretty good handle on the technicals, do you do pretty good in your trading? I'm thinking more downside next week, but I was reading this article about on of the reasons the usd gains during the asian session. what do you ...

GBP/CHF and USD/CHF

yesterday you had the fallout from the feds decision to hold interest rates, the wishy washy statement on future rate hikes, a whole bunch of bad news in the stock markets with automakers, banks, and credit in trouble again, gold and oil were moving ...

what is going on today about todays trading,someone help

please let me know more about this too, sounds great

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