Fti, thanks for the reply. Considering maheswara's comment above, maybe there are opportunities for catching some pips out of these anomalies, having two price feeds and not using stops. When you see one feed is out of the market ... just a thought. ...

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Or maybe dropping bombs on their heads...

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Hi, Has anybody seen something like this? Is NordMarkets chasing ducks with a machine gun?

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Wise words. I am sure you already are and will always be a great contributor to this thread.

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Peter, thank you for the reply. It is an interesting feature I hadn't noted in the MT4 platform. I was thinking about the possibility of watching our own trades being replayed on the screen by an EA, exactly as in the visual mode of the tester, so ...

Replay trades from history

I use to say about market forecasting: if we think the market is going up it goes down; if we think it is going down it goes up!

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Hey Zoran, is this avatar you?

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Fti, thank you for your very kind words. I have made many mistakes along my life, some of them within this thread. I am very sorry for the extreme inadequacy of some of my past posts. A thought is just a thought. A gift like this you have given us ...

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This was the second biggest lesson in my trading life (first was TAF itself). I thought I could avoid disaster. I knew the risk and I decided to take it. The battle was lost after almost 2 months fight, since the first hit came. Regards and thanks ...

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And this is a nice... errr... ugly one ... from a live account...

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Please anybody correct me if I am wrong but without funds segregation any broker, big or small, regulated or not, may do such kind of things easily and unnoticed...

Proposed NFA Capital Requirement

Your example is good and shows clearly that the result is the same. But the underlying thought process is diverse. Each of your non hedge entries implies a directional view of the market. And you must be right to profit. On the other hand, hedge ...

Proposed NFA Capital Requirement

Maybe in a short time we will hear rumours that NFA is considering banning automated trading "because it is not profitable". Again, they will be "protecting us from ourselves" (or from our robots, lol). What a joke these bureaucrats are...

CFTC + NFA: End Of Hedging?

Brokers with enough financial power should move away from US, in my opinion. Go to UK, FSA does not have this jurassic bureaucratic mentality. Fighting NFA stupidity from inside US is suicidal.

Proposed NFA Capital Requirement

Stay away from all USA brokers. Some not under NFA, but still under CFTC. Alpari-UK and NorkMarkets (Sweden) look good for me.

Proposal to phase out Hedging

The permanently hedged grid will blow the account, sooner or later and I think the user will not wait too much. Hedging is only an accounting option (costs a little more than the equivalent non hedged methods). Very convenient, depending on the TS ...

Proposal to phase out Hedging

You are almost right. In fact, equity grows steadily while the market goes up and down within the range, though you are hedged all the time. The math is simple: you accumulate losing orders in the borders. Those impact negatively on your equity. But ...

Proposal to phase out Hedging

(...)As has already been explained numerous times, in order to benefit financially a trader needs to have net exposure either long or short. In every one of these so-called 'hedging' strategies there is a point where the trader is either net long or ...

Proposal to phase out Hedging

Hi MaMood, Glad to see you here. I have changed my mind about using high leverage. The reason was the simplest possible: I didn't see an obvious mathematical flaw in my risk management and blew up my account today. I was up near 40% this week. I ...

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