Depends on how it adds to specific market liquidity, i.e. affects supply and demand, order flow on the exchange. I guess the bank which actively participates in some form supply and demand on an exchange will be examined by algos too.

Real or Algo

Probably because non-fx brokers use proprietary trading platforms, or by some reason avoid MT4. And CFD trading as we know is not quite popular among professional traders, hedge funds or trading firms. The downside of MT4 could be mixed with ...

Are there good reasons to avoid MT4?

Perfect and what is monthly or yearly return of this strategy according to your experience?

Whats your best money management method?

Why not to delegate decision making to a robot or algorithm. Human participation need only at the stage to identify market pattern, calculate lot size, TP and SL (or make them as a function of price of volatility to make them flexible). The rest ...

How do you learn to trust yourself in trading?

1,8 USD round-turn commission per lot, pretty competitive I should say.

Tickmill

I think it's impossible to avoid emotions in trading unless you fully automated the process. We are humans and tend to make mistakes.

How to Become Emotionless

Prices are not random for some simple reason - they are not generated purely by stochastic process. Will the price movement after NFP release be random for the employee who posts NFP figure on the BLS website or for the statistician who prepares ...

Forex is random

I'm mostly looking for new market advantages, formulate them in trading rules and backtest. I think it makes sense to refrain from trading because lockdowns impose unnecessary emotional pressure. It's important to realise that.

(binned per thread starter’s request) Trading at home

How did you manage to do that?

Tickmill

Why not? have you made proper execution& live spread & platform stability comparisons to claim the opposite?

Best Broker?

IC Markets, Tickmill Hotforex. Compare their spreads during several cases of high volatility to achieve consistency in your conclusions and then make the choice. Don't take our word for it.

Please share good brokers for XAUUSD

Check with them if they make market for you on some instruments. If yes then you gonna have conflict of interest with them => almost impossible to be consistently winning with a broker on the instrument where the broker makes market for you. Keep ...

Best Broker?

Bonuses create false impression of bigger account equity which may prompt a trader to take more risks. It's clearly not for new traders which don't understand the price of it.

HotForex Discussion

Nah, relax you won't find arbitrage opportunities in retail forex. You are too slow. There is though an opportunity for latency arbitrage between brokers or trading some unique platform glitches, but it's mostly applicable for new brokers which grow ...

Best Broker?

Hm interesting.. hotforex offers stocks and indices (although as CFDs too), cheaper and less hassle compared to US brokers which offer direct access. It's weird that Exness doesn't offer them.

HotForex Discussion

Agree. Will the market be random for an insider watching on the chart, knowing there's going to be a price spike because some important info hits the wires?

Forex is random

Let's call it as it is. Bonus is another way to use leverage. You can't lose borrowed funds if you are not going to repay them. If your broker offers such trading then it's most likely market maker.

HotForex Discussion

Yeah successful transition from demo to live depends on a trading system. Some of them are not too sensitive to transaction costs so you won't see the difference between them, others will need to be adjusted according to market conditions, like ...

Is demo a step before real trading?

Considering fundamental shifts in hiring, renting office spaces, demand on human transportation, retail, I wouldn't buy stocks from that category but would bet on those stocks that will profit from online activity - telecoms, online retail, online ...

Global Depression / Stocks to buy

I assume they remove bonus when margin level on a trade falls below 100%. It's reasonable because paying for the client losses is not in their interests.

HotForex Discussion