This winning streak is not unusual considering they were made in the midst of bearish market with strong bearish momentum. Lets see his results when the market enters range phase.

has anyone EVER seen a successful trader/trading system?

Bill Ackman made good money on the drop and now ne says that he is "all-in" in stocks. This bet makes sense if US succeeds in early contamination of Covid-19 outbreak or its really overhyped, because the government and the Fed poured too much money ...

Global Depression / Stocks to buy

Their conversion fees are too highs and exchange rates are always unfavourable that's why I hold my account in Euro with Hotforex. Btw bank account is in Euro too, though Euro is well known for its long underperformance against US dollar.

HotForex Discussion

Oh I see, they certainly can't beat exchange in trading conditions. But trading crypto from regulated brokers has its own benefits.

Tickmill

Which trading pairs do you trade? is your strategy spread sensitive?

USD 250.00 to USD 5,000.00

Do you know why? I remember they had pretty attractive spreads

Tickmill

Then they don't deserve our attention and money. Free market will eventually punish them for high costs.

Broker finds new way to gouge clients

I could understand this decision if exchange rate volatility (or liquidity disruptions) would be as high as in Bitcoin. But currencies are quite stable and liquid, don't see to a reason charge clients. Do they offer trading as CFDs or it involves ...

Broker finds new way to gouge clients

Great results but 11 trades tell nothing about performance. Not sure we can see the edge of a system in scarce data because the chance that it was a mix of luck and winning signals is high.

Can you really make money from trading?

I think fiscal stimulus is powerful and effective enough to curb recession risks because US have quite healthy consumer (low debt, high consumer confidence, low interest rates to borrow and spend). As demand shock can be reversed, supply side will ...

The end of the US stock market is nearing

I think best brokers are those which have FCA license. But it's really a hassle for many brokers to get it because of strict requirements.

Best Broker?

How did it messed up? Can you give more details about the problem? I also use Skrill for FX related transactions.

HotForex Discussion

Remember they had useful feature in their news calendar - you could look reaction of a currency pair to the news release. It was helpful to gauge short-term and long-term impact of the data.

Thoughts of a beginner

Yes big demo deposits makes it difficult to lose because you need a streak of wrong bets to ruin account. It creates impression you can trade with same success on live which is wrong.

Demo Forex VS Real Forex

Many brokers claim % of losing traders is something like 70-80%. It's not bad but definitely not good. There is also question how did you they calculate this %, like in what time a complete loss occurred, etc.

Is Forex reliable?

For swing or any kind of medium term infrequent trading real and demo account are basically the same. If your strategy works on demo it will show roughly same performance on live. But for scalping, HFT and news trading strategies the situation is ...

Demo vs Live Account

How often do you get such streaks of losses? Do you think it is a random event or depends on some market conditions / trading system parameters?

Trendline Scalping System

I guess it's not so simple, stocks may rise when the Fed cuts interest rate, means opportunity costs of holding cash increase what motivates people to buy stocks and ditch cash (i.e. USD). This causes dollar weakness including weakness against other ...

DJI (Dow Jones) positively correlated with EURUSD?