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- Rabid replied Dec 15, 2009
I've found it to be the exact opposite. It's hard to guage these sort of things from statistics, since everyone does it differently. That's why you don't do 50% partials. Work out the numbers with 2/3 and 3/4 closed to see what I mean. By being very ...
Silent Service Method
- Rabid replied Dec 14, 2009
You ever considered using a split lot strategy? Take X lots, close 2/3rds of at some point, move the rest to BE and let it ride. Just seems a good way to capture trends that may or may not happen.
Silent Service Method
- Rabid replied Dec 12, 2009
Stocks are way more volatile than forex. A sudden 30% swing in a stock is not all that rare. In forex, it happens much more gradually and because of a major change in monetary policy. During the recession we had stocks like citigroup going from $50 ...
Bank loan for traders
- Rabid replied Dec 9, 2009
Well yeh, we've already talked about that. It all depends on how you define execution time. If you define it as time for a placed order to become an active market order, well that's one thing (and probably still more than 1ms, but who knows). On the ...
Interbank FX. The most reliable MT4 broker around?
- Rabid replied Dec 8, 2009
Wow, this didn't take long to go down hill. Recycle bin, here we come!
Interbank FX. The most reliable MT4 broker around?
- Rabid replied Dec 8, 2009
Or it could be that the particular pair in question has spent most of it's last few months locked in a range.
Potential new machine learning style software.
- Rabid replied Dec 8, 2009
*facepalm* Does kind of look like that, doesn't it? I keep expecting someone to post an affiliate link to another broker, laff.
Interbank FX. The most reliable MT4 broker around?
- Rabid replied Dec 5, 2009
LOL. Got a good chuckle out of me there. The dollar is priced so low it's now the international standard for limbo competitions. The dollar is so weak that nuclear armageddon would be considered dollar bullish.
Silent Service Method
- Rabid replied Dec 5, 2009
I agree with this statement, but probably for reasons that are different than yours. I'm not sure what you mean by "the odds commonly found in gambling" but I don't think that "odds" are irrelevant to trading. I would argue that the difference ...
Odds of winning are constant: Using market bias AND stop loss
- Rabid replied Dec 5, 2009
Well, SL and TP, yes. Lot size has no impact on the odds of a trade. It may impact the odds of being profitable over multiple trades, but that's tangential to this specific point. While you can create equal odds, you cannot create better than equal ...
Odds of winning are constant: Using market bias AND stop loss
- Rabid replied Dec 5, 2009
I'm going to go another way with this. First, the odds are not 1/4 just because there are 4 possibilities. That would assume that every possibility has equal odds. Instead, I'd argue that the possibilities of each change over time based not on your ...
Odds of winning are constant: Using market bias AND stop loss
- Rabid replied Dec 3, 2009
Read the thread I've posted, you'll understand why.
Just finished forex education, what should be my next path?
- Rabid replied Dec 3, 2009
LOL. Yeh, that was kind-of my first reaction too. Not to be negative nancy, but babypips, while useful, is about a million light years from profitable trading. Skip the books for now, read this thread: url Open up a demo, trade, get very used to ...
Just finished forex education, what should be my next path?
- Rabid replied Dec 2, 2009
Eh, I think it's still asking a bit too much. Most OSes don't cycle thru their processes that fast, and if they had to place a trade out to balance your new trade, or even make the decision about whether to do that or not, the system would still ...
Interbank FX. The most reliable MT4 broker around?
- Rabid replied Dec 2, 2009
LOL. I doubt anyone would expect <1ms execution time. The internet doesn't move that fast.
Interbank FX. The most reliable MT4 broker around?
- Rabid replied Nov 30, 2009
At this exact moment I am running windows 7 w/ MT4 connected to IBFX. It runs perfectly. I did, however, install the program outside of my "program files" directory so I could avoid the administrator-only file-writing hassle.
MT4 window 7?
- Rabid replied Nov 29, 2009
Right, but that's my point, spot forex isn't that different from futures. Unless you're trading on a platform that offers actual delivery of currency, or maybe directly with an ECN (that's questionable, however) the mark-to-market platform and ...
Bank loan for traders
- Rabid replied Nov 29, 2009
The 2nd column in the spreads list looks about right if you round it up. Ie: 1.9 = 2, 2.6 = 3, etc Rejected orders, 2.6% is probably about right for a straight rejection. Requotes, eh, I get between 5% and 10% requotes. For weekly average uptime, ...
Interbank FX. The most reliable MT4 broker around?
- Rabid replied Nov 28, 2009
IBFX is located in Salt Lake City, UT. I've used them for the last 2 years. I've seen requotes and spread spikes, I've seen the platform drop randomly during important times. I've been completely unable to trade during high volume times. So why do I ...
Interbank FX. The most reliable MT4 broker around?