These numbers mean that nothing really changed. Those who wanted price action to rise, got their excuse to use their pent up emotions drive the euro up further, that's all. url By DAN CALABRESE - U6 unemployment is what matters, and it remains ...

The Direct Access tool mentioned in my previous post, on a VPS Server at the right ISP could give you a material advantage. BUT, it would have to be tested and verified, and validated that you would actually have an advantage over traders sitting at ...

It appears that I may have been wrong on one point. You could have a direct connect laptop/server/computer connected to the Forex market. I am not sure what, if any advantage this would give you. However, you would need either a programmer who could ...

LOL! and True, but that is a knowledge advantage, not a physical hardware advantage.

btw - on the subject of stops, I have been burned more than a few times by the stop hunters looking for my money. I personally set my stops way above where I can be stopped out, and I risk very little (small lots) at the beginning of trades. Then I ...

I would be for lobbying that the HFT's are split off and not allowed to trade on the human markets given what I know about computers, and such. I am all for liquidity, it drives price movements, but it's too easy to manipulate the markets. With ...

I will admit. Pretty scary stuff indeed, and this is what I was afraid of, since it's obvious that the time you hit the buy, sell, close order buttons, and the time they are executed by the broker though the various exchanges, that there are very ...

btw - if you think you are going to do this from your house, forget it. The time/distance between you and the servers on the market is too far. You would be probably at least 1 second (and probably more) behind everyone else who is direct connected ...

So, something must be done. A kill switch is a good idea, but HFT's are so fast, think microseconds, that thousands of transactions can be put in in a matter of a second. 1,000 milliseconds in a second. 1,000,000 microseconds in a second. In the ...

So the fear is that there is a runaway market due to HFT. That is a real situation that needs to be addressed. From what I can tell, most of these HFT firms are more interested in competitive advantage, rather than rigorous testing techniques, and ...

Regarding this article above, it is a bit hypey. And yet, it is one of those things in the software/tech world where "Bad things can happen". And I don't see where retail traders can protect themselves except for using stops. Even then, if the ...

If you don't understand anything technical, I can probably answer your questions, I have over 40 years in IT.

Here is a more layman like description of HFT strategies from Wikipedia: High-frequency trading strategies High-frequency trading is quantitative trading that is characterized by short portfolio holding periods (see Wilmott (2008)). All ...

Loadedgun - I wouldn't be concerned if they look to see how many posts you have done. Let them look, maybe they will find out that you have sound analytic principles. It doesn't take a lot of intelligence to trade, a monkey can be trained do it. All ...

Yeah really old, like for years...

Germany will possibly leave the Euro. They have already "opted" out. They don't want to stick their necks out with the rest of Europe. Would you? Then the rest will be left to form an economic Union, if they can figure out how to get out of the mess.

Angela Merkel - “No Euro Bonds as long as I’m still drawing breath.” It’s going to be a fun Euro Summit.

Ahh I read it again - Average True Range. Got it.

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