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- kaas replied May 9, 2014
Some brokers ask for more commission for swap-free accounts.
- kaas replied Jan 8, 2010
It depends, Oanda allow you to do it per trade , forex.com allow you to do it per account . It is a nice question for the broker when you selecting one.
- kaas replied Jan 7, 2010
Yes, that is basicly what i am saying. leverage can be a bitch if you use it wrong, however the more leverage the better . the best is way i can imagine is custom leverage and mini/micro lots. that way you can fit the leverage and lots to buy to fit ...
- kaas replied Jan 7, 2010
No if i want to risk $1000 with a trade with a stoploss of 10 pips , i want enough leverage to put in $1000 to get a pip value of $100. another example : if i want to risk $1000 with a trade with a stoploss of 2 pips , i want enough leverage to put ...
- kaas replied Jan 7, 2010
This is not entirely true, let say i have a $100,000 acount and i want to risk 1% ($1000) my stoploss is at 10 pips, that means that to lose/risk $1000 dollar the pip price must be 100$ . therefore i need a higher leverage only to risk the same. So ...
- kaas replied Jan 6, 2010
no body ?
- kaas replied Dec 23, 2009
I think the above text is valid for stocks but not forex
- kaas replied Dec 9, 2009
Great explanation ! a 20% return on a portfolia is way to much in my opinion ! I would myself not allow a drawdown per month of about 5% and that will be a lot !
- kaas replied Dec 9, 2009
This is only true if you dont diversify, for example if i trade simeltaniously 3 currenypairs and 2 have a profit of 10% and one a drawdown of 20% i am still even. Dispite that i agree to that a 20% drawdown is tomuch.
- kaas replied Dec 9, 2009
I disagree and agree with your post , i agree on the part that there are a lot (almost 95% in my view) of bad EA's, but it is possible to build a simple trading 'ea' that runs OK, but to do that we need to go back to the basics. For example, a ...
- kaas replied Dec 8, 2009
Hedgginghog, Thank you for your interesting post, I love to fool around with systems or methods. I agree on the most parts of the post (so maybe this is an addition :-) ). However i think that you can learn alot building EA's but not the ones you ...
- kaas replied Dec 7, 2009
Thats exactly what i think, but the professional funds seems to be good if the hit 20%, for example the LTCM had a max return of about 40% one year and was praised alot. I do not think alot about what i can handle because i am building my own ...
- kaas replied Nov 5, 2009
Because you cannot have 2 comma's in 1 number. (i think) i do not use alpari so 1.45124 is actually 14512,4 pips
- kaas replied Nov 5, 2009
The last decimal is ectually 1/10 of a pip, otherwise it was not possible to allow spreads of 0.9 pips. Therefore a pip is still 1/1000 of the currency (except JPY).
- kaas replied Nov 4, 2009
The count of the numbers, with 4 digits you will have 4 digits after the comma with 5 digits you will have 5 digits after the comma :-)
- kaas replied Nov 4, 2009
Maybe nice to mention also if it is demo or live.
- kaas replied Nov 4, 2009
Only if the system is purely based on signals and does nothing else, if it is also doing stoplosses etc it is hard to reverse signals and be profitable. For example, if i build a system that hase a take profit of 100Pips and set a stoploss at 1 pip, ...
- kaas replied Nov 2, 2009
I agree that risk/reward and ROI are better to measure performance of a trader, however if i measure different trading systems i like to use pips in stead of money because i want to test the trading only and not the money management. Just the ...
- kaas replied Nov 2, 2009
Not volume (based on tick data) :-)
- kaas replied Nov 2, 2009
Enivid, Thank you for youre interest, The test covered about 3 years of data , and consists of 10 currency pairs, every pair has only one active position at a time. the stats are as followed : total loss : -2509436 average loss : -14.568 losses : ...