What types of trade data are available to the retail trader?

Perhaps the biggest problem with using technical indicators to make trade decisions is that they all use past data which is usually only based on price and volume.

My question is, what other types of data can the average retail trader get access to?

I know in stocks you can get level II data which will show you what firms are placing trades on what level. Can we get anything like that for forex? Is there anything else we have access to besides price and volume and if so, can we make a trading system with it?

you don't have access to volume. Since forex is not centralized the volume you see is related just to that broker and for most it is nothing more than the number of times the price changes during a particular candle.

You can get level II in forex with brokers like MBTrading. They call it market depth. It can give you some information as to the buys and sells on their platform only.

Thanks. So yet again the odds are stacked against the retail forex trader.

The reason why I ask is I have access to some proprietary algorythems and technolgy that can clasify and predict buying behavior. It was orginally intended for web marketing/web analyicts but I thought it might be fun to try and transfer it over to other areas. However, I would need more data such as who is buying or selling and at what levels.