I am using two small live accounts, ($420, .01 mini and $100, .10 micro) which I activated after testing similar balances on demo with respective brokers. One live account doubled in 3 weeks; the second live account, with poorer spreads, has increased 30% + in the same time. I believe tight spreads accounts for the big difference in the results of those accounts.
Important news item times are avoided. Watching the FF news calendar for RED items, I start to bail several hours in advance. I have narrowed the pairs to AUDUSD, EURUSD, GBPUSD, AND NZDUSD. This week, I put EUR on hold due to the pending Greece issue.
Settings have been adjusted. Currently using Steps of 6 on a/u and n/u, with 9 on e/u and g/u. Multi-lots is 1.0 and 1.0. Started out with default settings on all.
Also, began with USDJPY, USDCHF, USDJPY, but dropped them in favor of the ones above. I didn't like the volatility at the time.
Important news item times are avoided. Watching the FF news calendar for RED items, I start to bail several hours in advance. I have narrowed the pairs to AUDUSD, EURUSD, GBPUSD, AND NZDUSD. This week, I put EUR on hold due to the pending Greece issue.
Settings have been adjusted. Currently using Steps of 6 on a/u and n/u, with 9 on e/u and g/u. Multi-lots is 1.0 and 1.0. Started out with default settings on all.
Also, began with USDJPY, USDCHF, USDJPY, but dropped them in favor of the ones above. I didn't like the volatility at the time.