Not forex-trading. A very poor approach, in my opinion. In a field of endeavour in which overall success-rates are minuscule to start with, starting off undercapitalized and with disproportionately high risk is a pretty much guaranteed way ...

I intend this helpfully, not critically, but in my opinion your meaningful trading education will realistically start only after you've learned that successful trading is about risk management, not about profit maximization.

I've completed your survey, but have huge misgivings about the results and whether they'll really be significantly indicative of anything much other than self-selection bias. Other forums where you might try - in case they're not on your ...

Nothing significant at all, regarding most leveraged, retail traders. (It's arguable that there might be some convenience-value in imbalanced hedging, to retail traders who are trading under circumstances and with brokers where they effectively ...

Thanks, Bob - interesting. I notice you've posted a 5-minute chart? So I was wondering: are you using trend-determination from M5 charts to put on 15-minute binaries, or do you just sometimes do 5-minute ones as well?

I mean this helpfully and supportively, not impolitely, but your chances of ever deriving steady, monthly income from it will improve hugely, once you really learn to appreciate how difficult it is and what a detailed, experienced and well-developed ...

Funny you should say that: I've used a similar thing, a few years ago, for place-betting on the horses (where it's not difficult to get three up in a row, though the prices aren't always great, of course). A very welcome and refreshing change, in ...

Statistically and probabilistically, over a large number of trades - not individually, over specific trades. Like so many of the subjects widely discussed (often with some disagreement and plenty of confusion) in trading forums, the conversations ...

That depends very much on your broker. If you're using a genuine broker (e.g. "Interactive Brokers"), who's executing trades on your behalf and isn't financially involved in the outcomes of your trades, and has no incentive for you to lose, and ...

Wow, tough audience, today. I think Mhmdfx is making a very good point, and making it rather well ...

You have a 100% win-rate, then, for those figures to be valid?! It's magic ... It must be this "new math", I suppose? When I was at high school (which wasn't long ago, at all), 7.00 to 11.00am and 2.00pm to 5.00pm added up to 7 hours a ...

Whether you can make withdrawals has nothing at all to do with the leverage with which you're trading: it has to do with the honesty and integrity of the broker, and sometimes with how and where and by whom they're regulated. It must be said, ...

To some people, surely. But bear in mind that as the time-frames reduce, so does the accuracy, reliability and tradability of market movements. Your observation about monthly (as compared with weekly and daily) charts is a perfectly valid and ...

Because it's a forex-trading forum, and probably very few members here trade anything to which this is relevant. In any case, the reaction to this news, in financial circles, is probably all a bit overblown: I'd think the "risk" will just transfer a ...

I sensed this. Please excuse my mentioning that you haven't defined what you do mean, though. Sorry if I sound pedantic, but answers to this only "mean anything" if you specify some sort of size-parameter for what you're counting as a "move", ...

"Adverse excursions" doesn't refer to news/fundamentals/events. It's a measurement of how far a trade can move against you before it closes. "Favourable excusrion" and "adverse excursion" are trading parameters. If you run an EA on demo and it ...

Exactly so. Fortunately it doesn't matter very much anyway, to a forex-trading perspective, because fundamentals are already included in technicals. Fundamentals don't move prices: imbalances between buying pressure and selling pressure (whether ...

Not so - an error of tenses, there: it would apear that a Martingale "would have worked for you", with hindsight, over the period during which you observed fewer than five consecutive losses. It will still destroy your account, with certainty, if ...

It isn't possible to do this, because every tick is a "move", by definition. Or - if you're discounting single tick moves - what are you defining as a "move"?

Do you monitor adverse excursions? (I don't mean it impolitely, I promise, but without knowing that, your demo EA results are surely purely academic?).