In your mobile app, minute level time-frames are very granular. Not sure if many people are using all those. I don't expect many scalpers to be actively trading through mobile. But hourly time-frame jump to H12 after H4. Can you please introduce ...

Spotware cTrader suggestions, improvements and issues thread

Even if you manage trades actively, have a crazy stop loss 1000 pip away for the time when markets go to haywire. Pending order are executed by the broker's server in split millisecond once stop loss price is hit. Meanwhile, even if you click close ...

Trading without a stop loss!

This is pure music... natural sounds. I highly recommend giving it a try. www.calm.com

What kind of music you hear while you trade?

Favourite timeframe is H8. But from time to time I might look at other timeframes like H2 as well. I already replied the following to another thread, but for the sake of keeping this journal up to date as well here it goes: I almost trade naked, ...

(binned per thread starter's request) Breaststroke's Trading

I almost trade naked, other than a couple of moving averages which I use for basic filtering there is nothing else on the charts. I especially did away with any thing which can not be overlayed and required a separate small window at the bottom of ...

Any Naked Traders in here?

@mhejek: I am a pure chartist and it works for me. Trick is to understand what market is telling you through candle sticks ... to understand what candle sticks actually represents.

candle stick, your enemy or your friend?

ARTICLE: How to avoid Armageddon events like SNB removing CHF ceiling in Jan 2015 You can't. You are most likely too small a fish. Events like this wash out large hedge funds. You are just a boat in an ocean, you can't fight with ocean waves. You ...

(binned per thread starter's request) Breaststroke's Trading

I have touched on major points on how I trade in first post. Following is some more information which might interest readers. Chartist to an extend that I look at the price levels later (when I am validating a setup) and charts first. Contrarian in ...

(binned per thread starter's request) Breaststroke's Trading

Hi Everyone, Thank you all for your warm response. I have made a new account at pepper stone. Funding it might take 2,3 days because of the Easter holidays and the delays it is causing. But I have connected this new account to myfxbook and fxstats. ...

(binned per thread starter's request) Breaststroke's Trading

Came here to say exactly this. 1% per position would mean any where from 0.5-3 x leverage per position. But if I open more positions (which I regularly do), then over all leverage would be higher.

Veteran forex traders, how much leverage do you use to trade?

Like many others have mentioned, ctraders is very resource hungry in my experience (~30-40% CPU usage) . You might be aware of this already. However, I have found that on weekends, when no new data is getting pumped in from the servers and ctrader ...

Spotware cTrader suggestions, improvements and issues thread

CySEC has been fining brokers left and right last couple of months. Looks like some spring cleaning is going on to improve its image.

Cyprus-regulated brokers - regulation