Which with no answers leads to people to start asking questions about things such as liquidity and funding concerns at OANDA especially with the ongoing leverage changes...

Yep. Concerned since this has happened a couple of times before in just the last month or so and they used to be one of the most rock solid brokers.

The only way to have "true" privacy is to trade on a futures exchange or through a prime broker, where your orders are looked at as volumes of different scales and not under your "username". If you're trading through an internally filled broker, ...

Have you looked at this idea for other USD based pairs like USD/JPY?

It's been a long, fraught, and dramatic several months. I blew it. I'm exiting this failed adventure again, after drawing down to a whopping 6% of my starting capital. Let that sink in... Some people just aren't cut out for trading, and I very ...

Thanks for popping in and leaving a note. It's always good to know you're not the only one experiencing the same thing. I'm now perusing through your journal to see how other people are approaching their methodology. I've come to learn that one of ...

Took a position in EUR/USD last night. The problem was that I had gotten a bit impatient and moved my entry closer than the original set up dictated. Because of this, I burned myself for a stop-out when if I had've left the original entry in place, ...

Remind me to not trade Sunday evenings any more. Was able to bag some good pips overnight to make up what I had lost and a token amount on top of that. Now to sit tight and see if we have any good new trades begin to form up. Will keep the post ...

As someone who is short the pair: I concur.

Alright, off to a rough start this week, but Sunday nights always seem to be less than perfect for me. A loss sucks, but it is what it is, and I took the trade based on what I saw. Instead, a good GBP/JPY short has kicked off, so let's see how that ...

I feel that I need to give a rather serious update here, because it's a big one. Specifically, I had an epiphany a couple of weeks ago, and my trading has turned around since then. I was reading through MikeW's trading journal since I wanted to see ...

I'll bite. I'll enroll in this experiment. I'm here to make dollars, not sense. This is the comeback here. Floundered around with Oanda's crap charting at first, but got some real MT4 charting going again with FXDD and base my trades off of that, ...

Went short last week but backed out early on my trade for a quick +40pip gain. Re-entered this week, up 138pips and counting! I forgot how wonderfully volatile this pair is, and boy did I miss it!

I'm back baby! After turning down the volume of entries/exits considerably and being much more choosy about my trades, I've been able to sidestep those duds and focus on the pay-off trades. Another good lesson in patience as well, as two of the ...

So this week turned out to be a good week after all. I fell prey to the my previous issue with lack of discipline and impatience on Sunday and it cost me...dearly. From then I realized I needed to figure out a more concrete system to work with and I ...

As the wrap up to this week, we have another lesson of learning to back away and just focus on those wonderful setups that take a day or so to build up, instead of "well, that looks like it'd be worth a look for 25 pips". Those invariably turn into ...

So last night taught me the importance of looking at extending my order expiration limits. I had a beautifully set up trade that the order expired about 30 minutes before it happened, leaving me out of it. So while I didn't lose anything, I did miss ...

Another lesson learned early this week in sticking to the plan. Had a wonderful setup for a solid 55 pip gain, but got a twitchy finger and got impatient. Had I just left the original set trade in place and just went with that, I would have booked a ...

Now, for the first week's wrap-up: 1) I tried to extend my force powers of multiple currency pairs mastery to my live trading, and it didn't work out so well did it? If I had stuck to the plan and stuck to only GBP/JPY I would be a solid 10% up ...

Some background on me and mine. I have a background in investment and asset management and have had an eye towards the forex markets for almost ten years now. I have had a couple of brief stints in the market, but the capital at hand was too small ...