Perhaps this should be its own thread - but I have a really hard time wondering why you don't just go with Oanda. The only things that I don't like about them are 1. Charting (but you can just use a demo MT4) and 2. only 50:1 Leverage. however, when ...

No — NO you shouldn't use a margin call as a stop loss. I really hope you are talking about a demo account, and have no real money in the market. You need to understand what the trading requirements are (in terms of money) before you start ...

Stop The Poppycock — Please, don't tell us more. The answer is no, nobody does that - because its hocus pocus! If I wanted to dream about something great it wouldnt be charts - I would be out yachting in the mediteranean or driving my jet car ...

I agree, I had one very brief issue with my fxtrade (oanda's real account system) but I think it was just my computer lagging because a restart took care of it. Oanda knows its reputation is on the line and its not going to sacrifice it, they make ...

Enough with the conspiracy talk - Oanda was down for a few minutes, just like any broker could be. As someone in that first thread you linked to said, obviously it is in Oanda's best interest to have their system open and available to as many people ...

Don't close it, MANAGE IT — I respectfully disagree. There are things like dollar cost averaging, average-up/down, and hedging. On GBPUSD to be -60 pips on a trade is not a big deal, (not a big deal at all in fact) if you can manage the trade ...

now im back in

same here - was logged out, they are having issues, this is not good

Here is another that is a bit more visual but not quite as exact with the times

Are you on FXtrade or game? I think game is more overloaded than fxtrade, its usually slower for me. I am on FXtrade (real account) and I had a little trouble logging on around noon EST. After a reboot and a little patience it went through just fine.

This terror plot could have been disastrous. I hope that they have it completely foiled. This could have ended up being a 9/11 or 7/7, I'm glad there are some REAL Jack Bauers out there to catch these psychos.

http://www.forbes.com/home/services/2005/05/19/cx_lm_0519buffett.html If only we all had 21.8 billion to throw around in the market

I use the bollinger bands, set to 20 periods, on the 15M 30M 1H charts, BBs are great for watching breakouts and picking entry/exit points

Interesting point, the insane moves of the peso have always fascinated me, as I travel to mexico often

post hoc ergo propter hoc — This shouldn't become a silly political discussion on which ideology produces better economies. So lets not even go there - instead, lets talk about actual reasons why the economy would be behave that way. Instead ...

reason being?

Next time I talk with him I will ask him if its ok for me to post his name and his personal thoughts on what will happen. Rather than supporting his theories, I was more interested to see if anyone else had any thoughts on the subject. For example, ...

what broker are you with mikal-san?

exactly - "fixed" means you get hosed while variable is more likely to be closer to the supposed price that the "fixed" guys were offerring.