You are no longer a trader when you let others do the work for you. You're an investor at that point and you need to dive into the study of a bazillion other subjects before going forward as an investor. For example: Moral Hazard - Let's say I give ...

Trading by yourself vs Letting someone trade for you

My suggestion, DON'T SPEND A DIME on it. You can get tick level data for free as recorded by Integral's liquidity aggregation feed / ECN... Go to truefx.com > sign up > downloads section Integral started truefx to promote brokers using their feed ...

.txt or .csv TO .hst conversion

... why would you want someone else's TA clouding your thoughts? :S

Does anyone know a website which does technical analysis for you?

The server upgrade fixed a different issue... back then their MT4 server wasn't able to keep up with all the new clients and was having trouble processing so many transactions at the same time... so orders would sometimes hang or time out and cause ...

Pepperstone Forex

Too few crosses? But you're the master of creating synthetic crosses... like you have all over the Hedge Strategy thread. hehe! As I pointed out in this post here in the hedging strategy thread you frequent... Just make your own. url

Best Broker for 2012?

The rebate industry in general, I find, can be just as much of a negative as a positive. Traders will seek out rebates once they become aware of them... which causes the following pressures: Brokers who already spent money acquiring a client through ...

Pepperstone Forex

You're forgetting the average spread difference. url Since Armada feeds from LMAX, you'll see here it varies widely.. lately it seems to average between 0.6 and 0.8 pips on EUR/USD. Where as Pepperstone settles between 0.4-0.6 with spikes lower ...

Pepperstone Forex

Yeah, this is sad actually.. I used to love scalping 5m momentum on $/JPY. Ever since the new head of the BOJ came in and threatened to do whatever it takes to keep the Yen tame, the pair just doesn't have the same 'dance' to it.

Less Stressful Pairs

If you're finding the pairs stressful to trade, then back down to a longer time frame. Maybe daily charts? Don't put on so much risk... if you feel stress you're going to make bad choices.

Less Stressful Pairs

I wonder if that applies to trailing stops... Each tick in your direction would create a change order for the server... mm..

Improve MT4 order execution speed by 500ms

I haven't had any disconnects today... Only one over the last 3 days from what I've noticed.

Pepperstone Forex

This being the FXCM thread, I don't exactly want to promote Oanda here... ...but to be fair, Oanda doesn't charge commission or other fees, and they pay interest on deposits held with them. Go chat in the Oanda thread for more details.

FXCM Discussion

Don't worry about it. I respect your openness.

OANDA Discussion

Ah.. ok, you could use this script: url It opens multiple lots on the same currency pair at the same time but you can set separate stop and TP levels for each lot. For instance, you tell it to open one order at 2 lots, and one order of 1 lot, and ...

Trading script for managing trades in MT4?

Congrats.. be sure to check out Oanda's FXLabs: url Aside from all the normal great stuff Oanda offers, this is one resource full of interesting little bits of info thanks to the work done at Oanda.

OANDA Discussion

There's situations where it does make sense. For instance, if you have $100k in the bank and don't wish to deposit it all at your broker.. you can still risk a low amount of your total net worth while keeping the required deposit to a minimum broker ...

New Account - Broker Recommendations?

Pepperstone's Razor account type has this: https://pepperstone.com/trading-accounts/accounts-razor.php Dukas maybe too but their leverage isn't as high.. Personally, I'm happy with leverage well under 50:1 so I never found the limits that some ...

New Account - Broker Recommendations?

Yes, even the chat support can close trades for you after they verify you have authority to trade the account.

Pepperstone Forex

In a perfect world where re-balancing accounts could be done quickly and without costs (wire fees, etc..) then this would be ideal. In general tough, this is a game best played by HFTs, and any advantage found now might not last long.

My Own Broker Arbitrage

If you adjusted to perfectly match the right size (and for this, you'll need a broker like Oanda to get down to a single unit of currency in sizing,) this combo would have you effectively flat with a cost of carry bleeding you every day. What are ...

correct correlation size