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- Mevo replied Sep 8, 2018
All this is a pretty recurring topic. It all depends of the TIME FRAME. The longer the period, the higher the proportion of loosers. 95% may even be accurate on several years.
- Mevo replied Aug 11, 2018
Hi, interesting stuff. But what is the time-frame used for these numbers ? I hope every broker uses the same. It seems to me that these numbers are quite higher than the US/CFTC quarterly published ones, aren't they ? I would guess that the longer ...
- Mevo replied Jul 6, 2018
It indeed does. It refers to ... LorraineMor's comment. The one just before yours.
- Mevo replied Jul 6, 2018
I have a question: Who's paying? LorraineMor: There is one thing I never understood: What company managers in their right mind would find it clever to have people peddling such bad advertisement with such poor English ? Do you really think any ...
- Mevo replied Jul 6, 2018
Ok, fair enough Expo33. I guess that the main underlying problem in this case was that people didn't stick to "proper risk management" then (me included), because they thought they had a "central bank guaranty" behind their trade. So, hey, why not ...
- Mevo replied Jul 6, 2018
Expo33, you are right, I assumed, because of this sentence: It didn't impact you because you had no position in any CHF pair. My point was you won't necessarily be able to survive (your previous comment) in a black swan event on a pair where you do ...
- Mevo replied Jul 5, 2018
Ok, I understand that you don't know too much how the SNB event went down (there was a guaranty from the central bank on the CHF pairs... until there wasn't anymore. So it wasn't comparable to another pair in that situation at the time. Today, sure. ...
- Mevo replied Jul 5, 2018
Fair points Expo33. The additional question about a black swan event is: Can YOU survive with the broker ? Or will they screw you over ? Answer for Oanda in the case of the SNB event: No you couldn't. But THEY did well (they halted all quotes ...
- Mevo replied Jul 4, 2018
"Bucket shop" is pretty negative (and may imply scamming people if they are unable to pay in the end for example). But Oanda has ALWAYS been a "market maker" broker. They are the counterpart of all customer's trade. They always have been transparent ...
- Mevo replied Jun 20, 2018
Probably EXACTLY the same. I would guess that these plug-ins affect the price feed, not just "MT4" in itself. To try an analogy: You are pretty much saying that a product is bad, and you're asking if buying it online, rather than in a store will be ...
- Mevo replied Jun 19, 2018
Dude, please The "Listen, I'm not one to type long messages or even make posts for that matter" as an introduction, or the "I'm actively in the process of opening my own brokerage, mainly because the volumes I trade are too large for the current ...
- Mevo replied Jun 19, 2018
You are totally right, all this plug-ins are common knowledge since ages now. In fact, believing that your broker doesn't control every aspect of your trade and the prices you get, if it lets you open or close a position, and so on, is very naive. ...
- Mevo replied Jun 19, 2018
If 99% of people feel bad after they were drunk, why do people still get drunk ? On top of that, the reasoning is totally backwards: If people still trade, THEN 10% of them must be profitable ? (again, all this "profitable" thing is very dependent ...
- Mevo replied Jun 17, 2018
Lol, some brokers have NO limit to how much BS they can peddle It reminds me of Oanda and all their advertisements about how great they have been in the SNB incident and how they did the "right thing" for their customers (when the reality is ...
- Mevo replied Jun 10, 2018
It's always the same story. Like in trading, it all depends of the TIME FRAME. Quarterly, there are on average around 40% of profitable traders. On the LONG RUN, far less, because a lot of them will be in the 60% of loosers some quarters in the ...
- Mevo replied Jun 9, 2018
So why do you want them in MT4 ??? Can't you just follow the stocks on a financial website ? (Dukascopy: See their website, or you can do a search for "Dukascopy MT4 bridge" on the web)
- Mevo replied Jun 4, 2018
There are usually only CFDs on the most traded stocks. I see that DUKASCOPY has CFDs on these 2 stocks, but it may be complicated to have MT4 with them (there is some solutions to do that). You would have to check the brokers websites to see. May ...
- Mevo replied Jun 4, 2018
RelaxTrading, I stand corrected: I searched because I wanted to make sure and the Turkish Stock exchange ("Borsa Istanbul") offers EUR/TRY futures contract On top of that, they made them very small (1000 EUR, so that's equivalent to a MT4 ...
- Mevo replied Jun 4, 2018
Ok, you should have said that in the beginning. If a futures contract exists, the location of the broker is pretty irrelevant. I didn't research it to be 100% sure but I highly doubt an EUR/TRY futures contract exists. That's an "exotic" pair not ...
- Mevo replied Jun 4, 2018
Biggest exchange where futures on currency are traded = CME (Chicago Mercantile Exchange). If you go to their website ( www.cmegroup.com ) => Trading => Find a broker, you have a list of around 250 brokers that gives you access to the CME. You can ...