i always use a micro account. even if you have 10k, you can still use 2.11 lots or something. It gives you better granularity and better risk management. say you have a 10k standard account and risk 5% each trade with margin of 100:1. you could make ...

risk capital building

here is a good one by coderguru http://www.metatrader.info/node/35

Primer for coding MT4

its almost a perfect plan. the problem is usd/chf and eur/usd have 96% correlation most the time. that means its off by 4%. you would be earning 1% so you might earn 5% or get -3%. You would also be out on the spread both ways when you buy the lots.

Would this work?

you might take a look at woodies cci group. they have online trade rooms and he walks you through his trades if you get on when he is trading. the thing to remember is anyone that wants to sell you their services as a mentor obviously doesnt make ...

I Need A Mentor!!! Here's Why...

it should drop 117 pips then bounce up for 27, back down for 38 then up for 58 after which they will join the euro, scrapping the pound, reducing it to 0.

Gbp/jpy will it go down ?

if you want to program you can go with interbankfx, they have mt4, but they have been recieving alot of complaints on this board lately. Many many people swear by Oanda, and i would too, but i like to test my systems

Newbie looking for advice

hehe, looks like you can get your money back after only 2 years!

Forex.com (GAIN) acquiring RefxoFX accounts

gft always gets my limit orders perfectly. If i tried to buy at market while the prices is moving , thats is a different story, they want to confirm you will take the slippage. are you making market orders or do you have limit orders in place to ...

trading during NFP

i am not a fundamentalist either. but what i have noticed is that the market is already attuned to the "expected value". so if everyone projected that the interest rates would go up 500 points it would already be in the market, but when the actual ...

Is there something with the USD going down?

if someone has been successfully trading for 20 years, how much money could you give them before it would show up on thier bank account hehe

How to choose a course/mentor

i have noticed that contrainism seems to work amazingly well. i just cant figure out how it works.

Low Risk, High Reward Trading Experiment

eeeehehehehe. hmm with 400:1 i can put in 1 mini per $25.......

Non-farm Payroll

asset = something that gains money or value liability = something that looses money or value my husband is usually an asset (in the value sense lol )

Vegas Wealth Builder Part III

in psychology they have found that good decisions take 2 parts, emotions and logic. With different tests they found that logic only people don't make the correct choices for the situation (well 100% logic cant interact with the world). On the other ...

Why technical indicators and MTS fail...

woohoo you're a smartie everyday! i knew there was a way to us the BBs! Always seemed that when you were at the top it was still 40% chance they would go higher anyways. not so squeezy is great

Not So Squeezy - Trading Manual by Akuma99

i have a question, do they use weekly pivots or daily, and how are the calculated (cams, murrey, hlc)? thanks for all your info so far!

MarketMakers

they probably went the wrong way on thursdays rate hike and crashed the system out so they need not pay for it.

Invalid account

I really agree with you, get the $0.10 a pip account, it will teach you 10x as fast as a demo. I would suggest getting a demo account for a month or two at first to learn how to use the platform (that goes double for gft, their platform is ...

My simple way of trading

in the begining i wish i would have just got a demo account and traded it. It helps to learn the market before you start setting up a system. The mantra goes, plan the trade and trade the plan,and it is definately true, but first you need know how ...

close to quitting...