Totally agree with you, I would say its both. Its closely related and its crucial. It also depends on the behaviour of the pair in question. I think that absolute risk is hard to quantify exactly outside of % of account risked per trade.

I would say that true risk is also closely related to stop size, although i dont think its a linear relationship.

I think they also charge for order changes too so when you move to BE or change stops and TP's it can cost more. I might be wrong though so its worth checking again.

I give your money one month tops. Anyone fancy a sweepstake?

I agree, its pretty shocking. Almost as bad as trying to pick the bottom on the USDCAD. As for the spread widening with oanda, they do it every friday, its their standard weekend policy, sometimes they do it earlier than previous weeks, sometimes ...

Currency futures volume data.

My thoughts exactly. Ive been buying gold all the way up. I still think its got room to go too.

Go for broke — If your gonna go for the big one, start with $1000 and go for $1000000. Hell, I'll chip in $100 as long as I get my share ROFL

How have you found CMSFX as a broker, ive read a few reviews and I've heard bad things about them. I checked the swap rates at city index and it would seem that unless you have a reliable swap free broker then the swap rate difference with most ...

Calculation — Im still getting my head round this and cant quite get it to work, could peter point out the error in my calculation? This is using FXCM as a broker. Current GBP/JPY rate is 235.39 Current pip price is £4.20 Short one standard ...

If its got positive results, why try and "improve" it? If it aint broke....

Oanda — Right, ive got four price feeds from four seperate sources excluding oanda, one of which is of of an ECN exchange (dukascopy) from which I watch all the time so i can spot delays and give me clues as to price movement. I wasnt ...

Price fiddling on Oanda — Ive just watched a near perfect entry turn into a scratch since oanda decided to delay the price feed on the euro by 8 pips. Unbelieveable!

Leaving them alone — I like to place trades late in the evening and see how they develop when I wake up (after about 9 hours). Youd be suprised how often an entry left alone can be up 100 pips when you wake up.

War? — I think its BS thinking that trading is a war with other traders in the forex market, the volume and liquidity is so huge that even people with huge accounts (20 mil for example, and is there anyone on here trading that much? I doubt ...

SAvings? — Savings account with 4% per month? Are you being serious? I want proof! And if it does exist then Im moving my savings!

Well I'd like to chip in a few things. Although the fixed fractional system is the basic premise for money management, the best way to implement it can differ from system to system, and I feel depends very much on the statistical performance of that ...

ERm? — Scalping with FXCM. YEAH RIGHT!!!

Ill see if I can dig it out, it should be easy to add an alert feature as well..

Hey skyline, I've tested your version and it looks even better than the one I looked at previously, the adx and qqe look slightly different, but they're giving fewer false signals so it seems like a good difference to me! And im sure crytens' seal ...