DislikedSo far, from what I've learned. 1. Risk-Reward matters a lot, seemingly more than the trading system you choose to use. <-- This includes money management like max lot sizes, etc 2. Time of day and currency pair has a huge impact on your strategy, range trade U/E during NY session? You're in for a world of hurt, do it (U/E) during Asian session? You can perhaps walk away with a profit. This confused me a lot at first, I would test a strategy and it would be working, then when testing it at a random time later on it failed miserably. 3. When you...Ignored
Great points here. As far as avoiding dodgy currencies... how do you define "dodgy"? To me, they can all be dodgy. Even the BOJ has had some surprise, not-on-the-calendar news events recently that resulted in some large moves. Granted, not the catastrophic move that the SNB provided but, enough to take a big bite out of the account of a small trader.