Good point, on the subject do you know of any indicator of liquidity? The received wisdom is that the information is not generally available but I did wonder if the rate of tick change for instance may give some crude indication.

Why is the fx market very slow this January?

From the little I have observed I would say that 6 weeks is too short a time-scale to judge as the markets seem to go into different states now and again. However, you can answer the question more accurately if you randomly pick similar periods over ...

Am I good or just lucky?

As a newbie myself I can't speak with much experience about trading in particular, but in general I would have thought that you first need to fully understand what went wrong the last time. After that learn from the mistakes of others and copy ...

How can you improve your trading techniques?

Possible alternative view — A possible alternative approach if time is limited on a day to day basis but you can spare the time to develop a strategy is to try and code it and then produce SMS alerts for instance to prompt you for possible ...

A system that works for a part time trader with minimum screen time