Ok, I've just figured out that Sergien's version of FFCal probably does what I need, although it doesn't seem to work right for me, I'm using with: bool isCurfew() { int ...

Hello, I've generated an XML file with the last two years history of news in the same format used in FFCal, I would like to use that data to enable FFCal to be used for backtesting. I'll dip in the code of FFCal, if there's anyone familiar with this ...

A few weeks busy, but back to trading, here's my AUDUSD short on the 1H chart.

I had some troubles with the computer last week, didn't trade. resuming today with some fresh trades. Trade#42 to start with, interesting trade.

34 was stopped out, as the GBP seems very strong after the news of this morning, joining the USDJPY now, trade #36 file

Uploaded a bit late, the trade is already open... uploading also trade #34, that I closed because of lack of margin.

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Interesting, I think quite few people do something similar, doesn't it get messy when you have many trades? How do you organise them? Do you ever review them?

I didn't try the trade explorer, but I'm not too happy about sharing the password to my broker around. I don't feel comfortable with it. What does it do once you connect it? I mean, what sorts of things it lets you do? thanks,

Hey IBBinary, It's nothing really, just standard calculations to calculate the risk of the trade and based on it the volume I should invest, very basic stuff. I enter my entry and exit prices, pip value, and max risk, and it calculates the risk, the ...

Hi Sawell, So the thing you have to consider is that in your trading platform you usually see only the chart relative to one of the two bid and ask prices. While these two are very similar, they always differ from each other, and the difference is ...

My frustration is the lack of proper trading tools, in other contexts I'm used to software that works almost flawlessly and it's very flexible to suit any need. I find it terrible that in forex most trading platforms are available only on Windows, ...

@Exodus I wasn't referring specifically to any of your posts, but more generally to several posts where I had the feeling such a correlation was being made, by mentioning statistics obtained in different ways, and I meant only to express my view on ...

For living on forex trades what you need is consistency, Even if you made lots on a single trade and your account has increased, but your trades are generally a loss you can't give up your day job for forex. The simple math you need for deciding to ...

The figures you all mention in this thread are quite scary. Of course if such information was easily available, most brokers would just close business. If the figures were much different from this the brokers would be advertising them on TV. So with ...