lol Yeah I always laugh at those bucketshops that don't even bother hire a professional translator. Just goes to show how professional they are. Almost all bucketshops are calling themselves STP brökers these days. I still think you work for them. ...

Smarttradefx

That's the good ol' Normal distribution plot (also called Gaussian distribution). It's the distribution you get when (for example) flipping coins. Your probability percentages are correct within a Gaussian context. But the markets are not Gaussian, ...

Market Statistics & Probabilities (requests welcome)

Most true. I don't agree with the rest if what you said however. Just because you master trend trading doesn't mean other styles (such as tape reading/orderflow, mean reversion algorithms, etc.) can't work. You need to get over that typical ...

Market Statistics & Probabilities (requests welcome)

Great input OldQuant, we need more people like you in this forum. And NewYear, nice thread to start the year with.

Market Statistics & Probabilities (requests welcome)

Then again, this is true with any broker in existence.

Dukascopy or Oanda?

By praising a bucketshop in your first post? Either you work for them, or you really ARE a "noob". Anyway, in case it's the latter, my first advice: Get a real broker.

Smarttradefx

Hi STFX, Nice spamming.

Smarttradefx

The law of gravity has nothing to do with the market. Price is not subject to one constant/static one-directional gravity force.

Thinking Outside the Box!?!

I understand.

Confused about stop hunting

Just curious, why has it been removed?

Confused about stop hunting

Okay thanks. I didn't know they kept client funds in different financial institutions separate from Oanda corporation (only OANDA Asia Pacific as you said earlier).

Please help to choose a good broker

No. They have their own Java platform. No compensation scheme. As for "funds protection", this is retail spot forex trading, there is no such thing. (though you are FAR more likely to lose money trading forex than Oanda is) There is a customer funds ...

Please help to choose a good broker

There is no such thing. All those "broker reviewing" websites are highly unreliable. They are full of affiliates, people working for brokers who will give good reviews to their brokers and bash other brokers, and most of all: clueless newbies. With ...

Please help to choose a good broker

I second that.

LIVE Traders - LCG -London Capital Group FX

What Darkstar said.

Confused about stop hunting

Nope. The US stock market is generally positively correlated with EUR/USD and negatively correlated with USD/JPY. So generally, if the stock market falls, EUR/USD will fall too whilst the USD/JPY will rise. Here is a simple explanation for such ...

A down US Stock Market Portends what for EU/US, US/JP?

Sure, my advice would be: - Oanda is fine if you decide to join it, although it's not an ECN. - With 1k you can trade at Dukascopy or MBTrading, both are fine too and they are ECNs.

OANDA Discussion

Pretty much. Exactly. My theory (and this is just a theory) regarding news-time disconnections is that they're deliberate countermeasures implemented only during times of highest risk/exposure (for the bröker); just like widening the spreads, except ...

OANDA Discussion

That's an overstatement. Not true. (I trade with them) Not true. Just because a platform is web-based doesn't make it any less "real". FYI, some high-level institutional platforms (such as currenex) are web-based Java platforms as well. Imho, MT4 is ...

OANDA Discussion

Why? (connectivity and the platform are two different things btw)

OANDA Discussion