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I have not noticed any issue with the pipware-charts regards repainting. I don't use TDI for my trading so can't specifically comment on that ... maybe someone else has had experience of it enough to comment?

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I'm posting my trading summary for May so that you may understand more about my trading.

57% winning trades with a very small difference between average win (14.38 pips) and loss (11.31 pips) produced an increase in equity of 62.49%

I had one very bad day where I fell alseep with no stop in place .. awoke to find I had lost significant equity! Anyway, managed to recover that very quickly.

Notice that the general trend is a small increase per day.

EDIT: Made a mistake annotating the monthly gain on the pic .. should be shown as 62.49% (not 64.49%)

Waited for the 7 candle reverse and gained 28 pip, 2nd entry took 8 pip

Watching the all important support level @ 1.2200, coincides with the Asian low. Will allow a buffer on the break of 2-3 pips or an open on new candle below 1.2200.

Hi thread,

I have a little question...
What do you think about trade without stop.loss?

This curiosity comes from the Stratman's report where he fell asleep

I believe in stops, but I have rules to when I use them. Depends on the timeframe and the strategy i am using.

Sometimes I have 'used' a mental stop .. but I don't think it should be used on it's own

What I mean is that you should always have a 'protective' stop ie in case of emergency .... like falling asleep or computer malfunction, power cut etc. This is to avoid worst case situation.

I have now gone back to having my stop entered automatically on order entry ie all orders are entered with a stop. I managed to increase my account last month by compounding 2.4% per day .. very consistent. That big dip was a killer and it took very aggressive trading to get it back ie much higher risk per trade than I would normally like.

I could trade with that higher risk always and probably be very very profitable but the stress involved is just too much for me to cope with long term.

4 Stratman,

I think your summary will be usefull, expecially to give a clean idea on how your work goes on.

Sometimes (like now) I come back here in the forum to watch any video created by you.

I think your work here is very usefull for the comunity.

Many thanks

Been away for a while , here is a neat lndi for your charts, a channel /trend , just install it to your indicator folder and attach to your chart.

Nice indicator

Hi, apologies if this is the wrong thread to ask but I'm trying to get mini charts to run - has anybody been able to convert stratman.fon to .ttf?

When using Metatrader through a Linux installation, wine cannot handle .fon fonts... I've tried to convert it through fontforge but without much avail.

Cheers!

Hi Stratman,

What software or website you use for your May trading Summary?

Thanks for advise..
Cheers

This might help: http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxListOfFonts.html

Good luck

Thanks for the link - some interesting utilities in there

I don't have access to the decompiled mini chart indicator, but I think stratman made his own bitmap font called stratman.fon in order to mimic a bar graph.

A very clever idea, but unfortunately that makes the font unique... so unless stratman releases the font in a ".ttf" format, or somebody manages to convert it, the indicator cannot be used in Linux

Hi mate,

Try google "Myfxbook", you can find it.

Cheers
City

Sorry this isn't working for Linux ... it needs to be bitmap for locating pixels correctly

I had a long position on EJ open while Oanda's servers went down.

I was quite concerned as the trade was up to 100 pips in profit at one point and I had no way to close the trade.

When the platform came back up, I found out that I had actually placed a Take Profit at 8% profit so the situation turned out OK.

This highlights the importance of stop loss and take profit orders ie in case of situations like this.

I don't know how many hours the oanda servers were unavailable for but glad I had a good stop (my usual 10 pips .. 1% equity)

After the long trade I just mentioned .. I took a short and an impossible sequence of events occurred which caused me to make a loss in a trade that should have made me around 80 pips

This is the email I sent to oanda. btw, I am not trading until I see a suitable answer from oanda:

Hi

I have just been stopped out on a trade with a sequence of events that is an impossibility.

I currently run a trading room of almost 200 forex traders and have always promoted Oanda as the best platform for them to use. I am now in fear of placing any more trades with Oanda until this is sorted out.

Account 878389 June 08

Sequence of events (please see my attachment picture for details)

1) 07:00 went short EURJPY at 109.919 with a stop of 110.150 (Ticket 639332690)

2) 07:00 moved stop to 110.002 (Ticket 639332752)

3) 07:04 was in profit 8-10 pips so moved my stop to 109.91 (Ticket 639334729)

4) around 7:05/7:06 my trade closed while in profit for no apparent reason.
I checked the log and found that a new ticket had appeared (Ticket 639336133)
for the time of 7:01 saying that my stop loss had been hit!!

This is impossible because I did not move my stop to the new value until 7:04

I also note that the stop loss ticket has a Ticket number sequentially higher than
my stop loss adjustment ticket (time of the sequentially lower ticket number is 7:04
and higher ticket number 7:01) ... yet another impossible situation?


I am most disappointed as I would have managed this trade all the way down to around 109 ie 70-80 pips profit.
I currently have no confidence in FXTrade as a result of this situation.

Please sort out a solution to my problem .. I lost money here where I shouldn't have!

cheers
Rob

I felt so strongly about this I decided to talk in the live chat as I can't seem to raise anyone on the phone..

Here is the conversation .. I am appalled that this representative did not consider that this could be a serious problem with the FXTrade platform.

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OANDA: Thank you for choosing OANDA. How may I help you?
stratman: After the login issue has been fixed all was working well. But on the first trade I placed an impossible sequence of events occurred that caused me to be stopped out for a loss.
stratman: I have sent an email to frontdesk .. can you please confirm that oanda has received my email
stratman: it was sent from [email protected]
stratman: please tell me the title of the email here to confirm you have it
OANDA: Yes, we recevied it
OANDA: Thank you very much
stratman: please tell me the title of the email so I know you have it
OANDA: Impossible Sequence of Events
stratman: yes
stratman: I run a trading room with almost 200 traders and a trading website .. so this is a big deal as I have consistently promoted oanda as my broker of choice
stratman: www.pipware.com
stratman: I am in my trading room at the moment and need to give a reason for why I am not trading this evening
stratman: to my customers
OANDA: I see
OANDA: We appreciate your business
stratman: how oanda handle my incident will be very important to my customers
OANDA: We will try out best to respond to you via email
stratman: so you can't give me any reason now? ... this I will report .. please give me an expect lead time for an email response as I need to report to my customers
stratman: I can't trade while FXTrade is able to do inconsistent things
stratman: I also run a commercial thread on forex factory
OANDA: Our management team will review your trades and get back to you as soon as possible
stratman: http://www.forexfactory.com/showthread.php?t=210461
stratman: is this minutes, hours or days away from a response please .. I have customers that I need to let know when I will likely be trading again
OANDA: Unfortunately this is midnight in North America and the managers are not in the office
OANDA: So I wouldn't know when they will complete review
stratman: So I can't trade for how many hours? ie when will someone be able to look into this at the earliest?
OANDA: The platform is back up again and you may trade at any time
stratman: You are not understanding me!!!
stratman: the platform is 'up' ...yes
stratman: but first trade I placed did something impossible!
stratman: do you understand I have a serious issue?
OANDA: Yes
stratman: this could likely be happening to other customers of yours
stratman: I have never ever seen this kind of problem
OANDA: I will tell them to review your trades as soon as possible
stratman: so you will allow all traders around the world continue trading even though I have sent an email clearly detailing that the fxtrade platform is unstable?
stratman: closing trades when not supposed to?
OANDA: I wish I could help you right now, but the fact is, it will take some time to review the trade
stratman: surely something like this must be escalated to someone that would care about this?
OANDA: Again, this is midnight
OANDA: The managers will come to the office in 3 hours
OANDA: We appreciate your understanding
stratman: This I find amazing that you have a serious problem and none will be interested in it for 3 hrs
stratman: if this is the way it must be ... I suppose it must .. but no good for customer service
OANDA: We have already had teams working from home
OANDA: We are doing our best to fix the problem
stratman: so you know of the problem I just mentioned ... or are you talking about the original 'can't login' problem?
stratman: ie trades exiting with a stop loss for no reason
stratman: when price is a long way from stop loss?
stratman: ticket numbers appearing out of time sequence .. this is serious
OANDA: I understand this is a serious issue and I have promised you that our manager will take care of this
stratman: ok .. .I look forward to a 'speedy' response
OANDA: While I do understand your frustration, I really hope you can allow some time for us to deal with your account as well as other customers accounts
stratman: I don't think you understand .. this is not the problem you experienced earlier .. this is a whole new thing
stratman: not something I need sorted because I couldn't log in
stratman: like the 1000's of other customers
OANDA: But you sent your concern in the email, didn't you?
stratman: yes .. just before I spoke to you .. which is after the platform started working
OANDA: Great
stratman: you already have a backlog of customers with problems of trades they couldn't access while the servers were down
stratman: this is not one of those kind of problems
stratman: just so you know
stratman: this is something I believe is seriously wrong with the platform now it is up and running
stratman: which will cause a whole new set of problems
OANDA: I have sent a request to our manager and asked them to review your trades as soon as possible
stratman: thank you
OANDA: You're welcome
OANDA: Anything else I can assist you with?
OANDA: Thank you for visiting. Please contact us at anytime.
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