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  • #1,261
  • Nov 8, 2010 2:01am Nov 8, 2010 2:01am
Quoting Xaron
I guess you point to me
do you get paid by the word, or what...?
"If The Fool persists in his Folly he will become wise." - William Blake
  • #1,262
  • Nov 8, 2010 4:18am Nov 8, 2010 4:18am
Hmm... bitches on the payroll. Yeah we get paid by the word.

Quoting The Fool
Plat, the only people not complaining are the demo account traders and the bitches on the payroll.

Where do you trade, by the way?
forget about tomorrow, just steal away into the night
  • #1,263
  • Nov 8, 2010 4:46am Nov 8, 2010 4:46am
Quoting The Fool
do you get paid by the word, or what...?

OOHHHHHHhhhh man !!! Xaron and The Fool.... tow heavyweights here on FF up to a fight !!

Now that's what I call entertainment !!

I'm not a gambler but I'm really tempted to place some bets........
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  • #1,264
  • Nov 8, 2010 4:53am Nov 8, 2010 4:53am
I'm all in, put my money on ... hmm, what if both guys knock themselves out? Double self KO?

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And to make some money, I have to say Oanda is the best market maker around...
forget about tomorrow, just steal away into the night
  • #1,265
  • Nov 8, 2010 5:53am Nov 8, 2010 5:53am
Quoting Platypus
OOHHHHHHhhhh man !!! Xaron and The Fool.... tow heavyweights here on FF up to a fight !!
Now that's what I call entertainment !!
I'm not a gambler but I'm really tempted to place some bets........
Quoting spekitox
I'm all in, put my money on ... hmm, what if both guys knock themselves out? Double self KO?
And to make some money, I have to say Oanda is the best market maker around...
dont get ahead of yourself guys.
the 'big fight' (Pacman vs the tall Tijuana Tornado) is on November 13/14 in Dallas Texas.

after which we can switch back to watching UFC.
  • #1,266
  • Nov 8, 2010 12:56pm Nov 8, 2010 12:56pm
Quoting Xaron
I guess you point to me as I'm a software engineer from Germany. Well I even don't know if Oanda has employees here in Germany but I doubt it.

I see that a lot of people complain about down times during high volatility phases like news events. I'm not in that boat who goes in and out of a trade within seconds so that doesn't bother me. If I want to enter a trade I can set up limit orders which get almost always filled.
This doesn't make sense because it's not only people "who goes in and out of a trade within seconds...." that gets affected by server failure!

Quoting Xaron
If you want to be that stupid to trade during news events, go somewhere else.
That's a stupid statement, I'm sorry, lol. Different people, different style of trading! As long as they have a good record of trading the news successful, F'what anyone thinks or says, F**K the news!

The news to me is just like fast forwarding a movie to a certain point, either price gets to my entry point faster or exit point faster. I was angered because I couldn't exit a long position that I was in prior to the server failure, and I couldn't go short where I wanted at the same time!

It all turned out great for me in the long run, because when the server finally decided to work again, price had return to where I could exit and go short safely...........I ended up with over 200pips.

Quoting Xaron
Let me repeat: If you can't make money with Oanda you won't be able to do it elsewhere.
Yes, Oanda is cool and I never had any complain until recently when I started noticing that news = server failure....I do my charting on MT4 with Alpari us., and they don't seems to have that problem!

So far the server failures that I've experienced hasn't resulted into a loss for me. If it continues like this, it'll definitely result into a loss.
  • #1,267
  • Nov 8, 2010 1:10pm Nov 8, 2010 1:10pm
Quoting ladex142
This doesn't make sense because it's not only people "who goes in and out of a trade within seconds...." that gets affected by server failure!



That's a stupid statement, I'm sorry, lol. Different people, different style of trading! As long as they have a good record of trading the news successful, F'what anyone thinks or says, F**K the news!

The news to me is just like fast forwarding a movie to a certain point, either price gets to my entry point faster or exit point faster. I was angered because I couldn't exit a long position that...
You make several good points.
The most important thing is to have access to volatility...
when newstime is not available its first annoying because you simply dont have access to anything,
you are blind for the moment and it is terrible...
Second you cant use the high volatility for your trading. Doesnt matter what your trading style is, you need access to volatility.
this pig cannot be slaughtered for ever... or can it?
  • #1,268
  • Nov 8, 2010 2:00pm Nov 8, 2010 2:00pm
Quoting spekitox
I'm all in, put my money on ... hmm, what if both guys knock themselves out? Double self KO?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hl_r-TTObKc

And to make some money, I have to say Oanda is the best market maker around...
Nice clean punch. Wonder which one scored the points for it.
  • #1,269
  • Nov 10, 2010 9:10am Nov 10, 2010 9:10am
Anybody having problems with Oanda?
  • #1,270
  • Nov 10, 2010 9:49am Nov 10, 2010 9:49am
No, unless you trade during news times.
  • #1,271
  • Nov 10, 2010 1:45pm Nov 10, 2010 1:45pm
Quoting Marv
No, unless you trade during news times.
I've had no issues this week at all, including all news times.
  • #1,272
  • Nov 10, 2010 1:50pm Nov 10, 2010 1:50pm
Quoting bugscoe
I've had no issues this week at all, including all news times.
Yes, this week was like the good old times so far...
this pig cannot be slaughtered for ever... or can it?
  • #1,273
  • Nov 10, 2010 7:36pm Nov 10, 2010 7:36pm
For the record, I've done a bit of maintenance on my 'puter, including a much needed registry clean, and now things are working again.

My demo finally loaded too First time in a week.
  • #1,274
  • Nov 15, 2010 11:51am Nov 15, 2010 11:51am
I've been having problems with the Oanda platform the last 2 days. I turn it on, and in 10 minutes at least one or more functions stop working. Either it won't take a market order, or a stop loss is unable to be changed, or the transaction history stops working, etc. Anyone else having these problems?
  • #1,275
  • Nov 15, 2010 12:20pm Nov 15, 2010 12:20pm
Quoting Greenhill
I've been having problems with the Oanda platform the last 2 days. I turn it on, and in 10 minutes at least one or more functions stop working. Either it won't take a market order, or a stop loss is unable to be changed, or the transaction history stops working, etc. Anyone else having these problems?
Not exactly after 10 min.... but I had one or two occasions where I just wasnt able to close a position... but was able to open new ones... lol...

an immediate restarte solved the problem.
Also, the problem was only on one instance I had open. (I always have 2 instances of FXTrade open, side by side, usually the one where I run the primary account works without problems, but the one with the subaccount always has some kind of "*(ç/&%")
this pig cannot be slaughtered for ever... or can it?
  • #1,276
  • Nov 15, 2010 12:29pm Nov 15, 2010 12:29pm
Quoting georgem
Not exactly after 10 min.... but I had one or two occasions where I just wasnt able to close a position... but was able to open new ones... lol...

an immediate restarte solved the problem.
Also, the problem was only on one instance I had open. (I always have 2 instances of FXTrade open, side by side, usually the one where I run the primary account works without problems, but the one with the subaccount always has some kind of "*(ç/&%")
Maybe it's something on my end. I'm defragging now to see if it helps.
  • #1,277
  • Nov 15, 2010 12:47pm Nov 15, 2010 12:47pm
Quoting Greenhill
Maybe it's something on my end. I'm defragging now to see if it helps.
I was having the same problems as you. I defragged and it appears to have fixed it although I haven't paid much attention to the market today and have only done a couple of quick trades. I also had the platform closing and re-opening itself several times before stalling out on me. But so far so good.
Nothing worth having is easy.
  • #1,278
  • Nov 16, 2010 12:19am Nov 16, 2010 12:19am
There are many times it wont open after updates, have to reinstall them.

Anyone using oanda with another better trading platform?
  • #1,279
  • Nov 16, 2010 1:32pm Nov 16, 2010 1:32pm
For all you PC users, I have discovered that de-fragging directly after windows installs updates, and then running a registry cleaner has got both my Oanda platforms running like they used to.
  • #1,280
  • Nov 18, 2010 7:13pm Nov 18, 2010 7:13pm
I just noticed that Oanda is now trying to take advantage of the recent CFTC profitability report as part of it's advertising campaign.
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