The thing here often is (after a whole decade of experience): despite the contrarian view it changes the trend at a given point of time and AFTERWARDS the sentiment changes to the wrong side again. So the sentiment is always lagging. Be careful ...

It was actually a very interesting question. When she was confronted with the fact that an increasing EURUSD exchange rate dampens inflationary pressure and therefore counteracts a tight monetary policy (she is verbally emphasizing) she had trouble ...

Hudi .. still trying to compensate your own incapabilities by mixing up facts with selective perception? So I guess it is important to take some wind out of your sails from time to time.. here I am! Is it easy to make money trading FX? Is it even ...

I was trying to explain exactly that in my last response.

That question relies on too many assumptions for a simple answer. Giving you a specifc percentage value would assume a given risk/reward. So if someone else with the exact same system would tolerate only half the risk with the corresponding half the ...

Hey RiskFighter, no worries, I am happy to answer. Personally I think that systems using static values for operations like setting targets, entries or exits wont be profitable in the long run. You definetely have to adapt considering differences in ...

When applying grid and/or martingale techniques you are (mostly) adding additional trades to open/existing ones. Doing so you are averaging your price level of getting/beeing in the greens at the cost of an increasing risk by having a larger ...

Using my own coded systems for years and yes - averaging is part of them. Despite the general bad image of systems using this technique I am making money here already longterm.

Consider martingale and averaging as a tool but not as a strategy. There won't be a specific setting giving you a peace of mind money machine. You still need to find a general edge where you can build a strategy upon. Martingale can smoothen your ...

You are using bold letters and a lot of exclamation marks, so you must be right.

Picture or it did not happen. All good here. By dramatizing everything with worst case scenarios you are losing your credibility. It worns out.

Very fine piece of work, RiskFighter!

To see what? An idiot throwing around numbers WITHOUT context? He should use 100 lot instead of ten - that way his discrepancy in money gets even MORE SCARY! Taking your picture here alone underlines what I have explained in my last post. Let me ...

Sorry Erebus, but the only thing this guy proves is that he is a fool. What exactly did he expect!? He showed a 10 lot trade executed with a slippage of 0.1 pips. Thats indeed really good trading 1 million of the base currency. Matter of fact. What ...

Today (that means yesterday) .. was US bank holiday! Low liquidity always results in slippage, spread spikes and bad execution. But it is so much easier to blame the broker instead of making up your mind. In almost all cases the problem sits in ...

Zum 482847198. mal - und es funktioniert doch! Die Gründe habe ich mehrfach dargelegt. Wer sich natürlich jedem Schwachsinn beugen möchte, darf das selbstverständlich tun. Deine Verallgemeinerung ist aber trotzdem falsch. Eine Trading GmbH gründen ...

MT4 is not able to perform tickdata backtesting by default. It can only utilize M1 bars at best. So it interpolates M1 data for timeframes smaller than that. That means price changes below the M1 timeframe are artificial here. Considering this a ...

Thanks for your kind words, wishing you the best as well. All I am trying here is to provide a realistic view on the topic while everybody is panicing. People cry about unjustified actions and laws from the political side but at the same time refuse ...

Exactly! This is so brilliant - everybody got this false sense of security and panics about an offshore move though nothing would really change in terms of security. I have said this so many times here: you are trading with a broker, not a ...

Wrong! It is your personal decision .. at maximum. People with common sense keep trading the way they are used to. The ones with little to no capital wont reach the 20k threshold anyway and the rest can afford a lawyer in the worst case. Most likely ...