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mcquak replied Sep 22, 2022Yes, I was also thinking trading bonds with FTMO or Lux, but it's impossible due to the spread. But they have both reasonable spread an commissions on Crude Oil which I trade. I know you have not asked me, but here are 2 firms I know having one-time ...
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mcquak replied Sep 22, 2022Yes I agree. I know here is a lot of successful CFD traders, but it might be my personality, or psychology, that made me struggling. I'm trading MCL, and would like to try MES. Apex offers a Rhithmic feed, and it appears to be fine so far. Let's see ...
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mcquak replied Sep 22, 2022Nice discussion on last few pages about technical as well as other conditions on CFD / prop markets. Frankly, I've been struggling a long time with CFD markets. Apart from the fact, that some brokers and prop firms have insane spreads and ...
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mcquak replied Sep 20, 2022AFAIK FXCM, and LMAX and may be some other brokers supports Sierra. But I agree, for common retail trader is expensive (~$35-40 month), for futures though, there is no better platform (another monthly fee for CME or other exchange data).
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mcquak replied Sep 20, 2022The SierraChart is what I consider as the best platform. No flame please though.

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mcquak replied Sep 13, 2022You are right. I was never had problem with FTMO like this after they started with their demo server. It must have been some spread widening for some reason (volatility, news etc.), additionally there is no timestamp, so who knows, what time of day ...
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mcquak replied Aug 28, 2022For this to “see”, you need to use professional software like Sierra Chart (this is my favorite), Ninja Trader, Amibroker, Tradestation, Heatmap etc. TradingView is also an option for volume/market profile, but not for the number bars. But software ...
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mcquak replied Aug 7, 2022I think this is the reason. 1.5 months mean nothing seems like you overfitted the algorithm's parameters, so it's fine-tuned for the recent period. I might be wrong though, just my 2 cents. If I'm wrong, then if I were you, I would not sell the ...
Should I sell my US30 scalping strategy? (200-300pips/day)
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mcquak replied Jul 26, 2022He talks about this. image This does not look like a common link, does it? It is not affiliate link necessarily, bur if you paste something you do not know what does it mean, you face consequences
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mcquak replied Jul 26, 2022Oanda is counterpart of all your positions. What do you mean by “who is moving against my positions”? Do you think there is someone manipulating with price, aiming your SL or what?
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mcquak replied Jul 26, 2022I would rather not play the devil's advocate, but are you sure your platform does not show an actual spread? I see it everywhere! image
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mcquak replied Jul 26, 2022See this link (below) OANDA Europe Limited | Disclosures | OANDA image On the other hand, I've known that Oanda is a market maker for a long time. They are known for it in the industry. Here is a definiton of Market Maker. market maker - FCA ...
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mcquak replied Jul 26, 2022So, the first problem, to find stationary time series, was described. It's feasible by employing some computer program seeking for the time series combinations that are constituting synthetic stationary time series. Another difficulty, though. ...
Statistical arbitrage and pairs trading on Forex
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mcquak replied Jul 26, 2022I used to use the MT4R. Indeed, it's a great tool. But I prefer Python over R.
Statistical arbitrage and pairs trading on Forex
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mcquak replied Jul 26, 2022You actually do not need to calculate the price difference. Pairs trading aka mean reversion is based on the idea that stationary time series return to the mean, with emphasis on stationary. Common time series are not (usually) stationary, but their ...
Statistical arbitrage and pairs trading on Forex
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mcquak replied Jul 25, 2022The pair (or multiplets) trading is usually advertised as risk-free strategy. But it's not. Like this one below shows EURUSD/USDCHF spread (daily chart with out of sample part from 1st of Jan. 2022): image EURUSD / USDCHF is a well-known pair ...
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mcquak replied Jul 22, 2022Better to put the link to the source web from where you pasted it, do not you think? If at least you'd mention the source where you took it from because what's the point for commercial user starting with stolen content? E.g., these links url url ...
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mcquak replied Jul 10, 2022Same conditions. Free trial uses same E8Demo server as assessment and funding.
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