Thank you for the posts chrisaforex and napitt! Chrisaforex – Marketscope accepts FX and CFD price feeds from our servers. Unfortunately there isn’t a way to integrate any other price feed. Napitt – I apologize for the lack in response! That is ...

Strategy Coded in LUA

Hello all! Anyone taken a look at COT positioning data? Brad

Retail forex positioning

Thanks for the replies! And great point CodeMeister! I didn’t even think of that. The ticket number changes because… it has to. In the case of a partial close, there’s no way to keep the same ticket number from a coding perspective, a new ticket ...

Encoded MagicNumber

You’re welcome! I’m not sure what the maximum length of characters is in the comment field, but I’d venture a guess that it’s the same maximum as any string, so 255 characters. I’ve talked to some of our developers, and they’ve built EA’s with up to ...

Encoded MagicNumber

Hello Ati Baia! Well, it may be somewhat difficult to do because the Magic Number is expecting an integer. It’s probably better to use the Comment because it’s a string. Using OrderSend() and then OrderComment() in combination with OrderSelect() ...

Encoded MagicNumber

No problem at all! I hope I was able to provide some help with the EA! The other thing I though of after that post is that the 'delay' type logic that will make the EA work in a backtest is different than the 'delay' logic that works in live ...

TCO Trader EA

Hello! I wanted to reply to earlier inquiries regarding error 141 when using FXCM’s MT4 platform: Error 141 is ‘too many requests’ and typically occurs when there hasn’t been enough time between the last request and a new request. Mt4 is built to ...

TCO Trader EA

Hi paolomat! Thank you for the post. I think it would be possible to do this, however it would be very complex and depends on how the second EA ‘picks up’ on the first EA’s trade. Is this an EA that you have now? I’m wondering if it’s possible to ...

Tool or EA which applies Pending orders

Right, exactly. That’s why it’s important to know how your broker does things! Some do the daily settlements, which, as you saw, close/reopen trades at the same price, whereas other brokers may not do that, meaning that you have the same ticket/deal ...

Negative Balance allowed if Equity positive?

Great point about the margin requirement Gumrai, thank you! I would still suggest that everyone check with their broker as to how they handle margin on hedged positions. The reason is that some brokers initiate a margin call when the equity reaches ...

Negative Balance allowed if Equity positive?

Hello! My name is Brad and I work at FXCM. I wanted to share some thoughts that may (I hope!) help out: if you are going to be trading the news, you may want to find a way to enter Maximum Deviation or Market Range orders – these orders only allow ...

What is the Best News Trading Broker

Hello all! My name is Brad, and I work at FXCM. I had another though about how to exit this type of situation which may be of help. What if you were to close part of a hedged trade at a time, closing such a little amount that the realized loss would ...

Negative Balance allowed if Equity positive?

Hello all! I work at FXCM and can shine some more light on the functionality of our XAU/USD product. The contract itself is for 1 ounce of gold, so if the trade size entered is “1” then your P/L on the position will be impacted, penny for penny, by ...

XAU/USD, what's the cost of a trade?

Hello all! I did some digging and found this link for importing data into MultiCharts: url As Latinum is probably aware, FXCM offers data to download through various API’s, for live and demo users. This data is also available in CSV format from ...

Historical Intra-day Tick Data for Spot Forex

Hello Password! If you have MT4, you can probably do this already. The Moving Average indicator gives you many options for what to calculate the price from, see the list here: image Is this (or some combination of these) what you were looking for? ...

Indicator to draw line from high low of price bar

Hi Shadodwel! I am glad you are able to connect now! When downloading tick data, it can take a significant amount of time due to the amount of data requested. FXCM is working on a way to get data to NinjaTrader faster, however the solution is going ...

Ratios & Harmonics: a Different Way to Trade

Hi shadodwel! I work at FXCM and would like to see if I can help you with connecting through NinjaTrader. I have to say that I’m not an expert with NinjaTrader, however I was able to successfully connect. Ninja’s website has steps for logging in ...

Ratios & Harmonics: a Different Way to Trade

Hello all! I’m a mac fan too! And I've (unfortunately) never seen a mac based trading platform One alternative would be to use a VPS with your macbook, and then you would basically have a Windows system accessible to you. There are many VPS ...

How do you guys trade on a Mac?

Hello chrisaforex! Thanks for your post and question about LUA. I have not seen any other platforms that utilize LUA to code custom strategies, but I also haven’t seen every trading platform out there, so don’t hold me to it! Keep in mind that even ...

Strategy Coded in LUA

I'm unsure what you are looking for - seems like you want to use a Bollinger Band indicator? BB

Can someone help add a standard deviation band to this indi?