Thanks. I did mean if they are correctly sourced. I wanted to be able to view some of the forecast information and see the method for how they came about. But now when I think about equities and how analyst reports on earnings are not easily ...

are you saying if I don't like the broker and/or I'm not making a profit, I can't withdraw? like if I deposit $10, lose $2 from trading and want to withdraw the remaining $8, that I can't?

I hold positions from a few hours to a few days, not scalping and not too long term just demoing right now

I read many people complaining about their servers going down a lot anything else bad with them? I'm Canadian, should that affect my broker choice?

thanks for the replies. I think I may have gotten a margin call. I have a demo with $1k and 50:1 leverage. So that should mean I have $50k in buying power. But it seems like whenever I trade, it turns out to be more expensive. If I want a minilot of ...

a unit is $1 iirc, so a standard lot ($100, 000) would be 100, 000 units you need to define what you mean by risking 0.5% per trade

trading stocks is not a zero sum game The expected return on any stock is greater than zero. Otherwise no one would buy stocks. Think about it. Whether forex is... because you're dealing with currency pairs, if one currency appreciates, others must ...

will all the brokers be moving accounts if the max leverage becomes 10:1? specifically wondering what Oanada will do

MetaTrader is free and a lot of people use it. You can get it from the MetaTrader website which is like signing up for Alpari demo account. Or you can get it from other brokers which offer demo of it. I don't know about the pairs though. Brokers ...

I don't know if I'm right, can someone confirm or deny this: When you trade, you exchange one currency for another (duh). The broker usually trades with you and takes the other side of the trade. That is, if you have USD and you want to exchange ...

great tips Now, here is something extremely useful that I haven’t found in the on-line help: ^^ that was a great tip. I use the crosshair tool, never tried holding left click I guess lol Do you know how I can make orders faster? For example, instead ...

I've visited mparker's thread. There does not seem to be much. It's a popular thread for sure, but I don't get what's the big deal. He has a complicated chart which he says he scalps from. I don't get it. to OP, lurk moar. There is no best strategy ...

leverage of 1 pip to $1? you're doing it wrong. by 1 pip to $1 I assume you mean mini lots. To buy a mini lot you need $10000, so with $1000 you need AT LEAST 10:1 leverage. Yes of course it is possible to trade. Whether or not you make money is up ...

if you're not going to try to explain how you're making your trades or why, I think this should be moved to the trading journal board. I don't see why a rookie (rookie discussion board) would/should follow this.

you say it's possible to make $5K a month how much on average do you make per month as a percentage of your total account balance?

thanks for the replies Yeah, I didn't think they cared too much about it. They want my money.