DislikedA short true story. A few years ago my partners and I developed an EA that arb the forex, jumping in and out taking little bites out of the market. We opened a live $50,000 account at fxdd after being promised that their feed and platform they were offering was a true ecn with no interference, so off we went and started running our program. Within a few hours it was working like an atm machine giving out money, then all the sudden we started getting lags on our execution. FXDD SWORE they weren't doing anything but it was obvious they were. We eventually...Ignored
Getting back to the topic at hand, I moved from the east coast to the west coast (USA) to trade in the morning (5amPST/8amEST), and then I work a 9am-5pmPST day-job after trading. I don't have to work. I make a lot more trading than I do at my job (and I have a very decent job), but I like to keep busy. Maybe one day I'll start a thread documenting my trading methodologies.
Best of luck to all of you.