Advice I wish I had as a complete forex newbie

Well in that case i understand. And of course there will always be people hwo think its "more honorable" to do things by hand. There will of course be a move to illegalize EA trading, but that wont work as we all understand. It might be forced upon the average guy and small company though, but the wall street people/the military industrial complex will always do what ever they want, bomb who ever they want and rape what ever country they want. That will go on and escalade in a exponential curve, until the day that humanity realises its on its knees, dying. When that day comes there are only one thing that can happen, that will stop one way or the other.

This is much because of technology and the fact that a lot of knows how to read. So in a way, we are still in the middle ages kind of society, but its a bit harder to control us these days. Anyway i dont have time to rant about this, things are starting to move on M1.

Not necessarily. Because the psychological aspect comes in on top of the account needing to be adequately capitalised to trade $100 per pip. Scared money doesn't make money. When I said that my T/P had been slipped a few times, I wasn't very clear. It was slipped by 20-30 pips when the market gapped. Not by 1 or 2 pips. If you are on the side of having your S/L slipped by 20-30 pips, being down $2,000-$3,000 in a split second can be quite damaging both mentally and to your account balance.

Although I have read your thread and I still check in from time to time and I admire that you can trade $100 per pip without blinking, I still adhere to slow and steady wins the race.

also the leverage laws now restrict many start up traders who have less capital