Recent Content by 5of7

  1. Make a living trading FOREX?

    I understand the "statistics" that nearly 100% of traders fail. I have a unique perspective in that I can actually see our clients accounts and...
    Post by: 5of7, Sep 14, 2009 in forum: Forex

  2. Make a living trading FOREX?

    I live and breathe autotrading forex, and have done it for a very long time. I assure you it can be done, and money can be made. That being...
    Post by: 5of7, Sep 3, 2009 in forum: Forex

  3. Bucket Shop Arbitrage

    It's actually really simple. There is a human there making the market deviate. So they know exactly when they are doing it. During those times...
    Post by: 5of7, Sep 3, 2009 in forum: Forex

  4. Money Management -- What do you use?

    Some other traders in our collective do vary trade size frequently from trade to trade, and do amazingly well. I'll ask them to chime in on their...
    Post by: 5of7, May 7, 2009 in forum: Forex

  5. $25k Standard Account good or bad idea?

    You are quite correct, sorry for the confusion. If all you have is 25,000 then the rule of thumb is to allocate no more than 10% towards...
    Post by: 5of7, May 5, 2009 in forum: Forex

  6. Money Management -- What do you use?

    I was just replying to a thread where someone has been practicing, and they think they are ready to go, all they could manage to scrape together...
    Thread by: 5of7, May 5, 2009, 6 replies, in forum: Forex

  7. $25k Standard Account good or bad idea?

    The account balance doesn't mean a thing, it's in the money management. The question is: what is the frequency of your signal, the expectation...
    Post by: 5of7, May 5, 2009 in forum: Forex

  8. High Frequency Automated Trading Platform

    I think that it might be your broker, or your latency to your brokers server, or their latency to their LP. We literally execute many trades...
    Post by: 5of7, Apr 30, 2009 in forum: Forex Brokers

  9. High Frequency Automated Trading Platform

    If your trading depends on latency, consider direct to API. We found that going through MT4 adds a little latency, probably less than 5ms. The...
    Post by: 5of7, Apr 30, 2009 in forum: Forex Brokers

  10. How much capital does your automated system trade?

    I agree, all new strats are (and should be) forward live tested before they get fed more money. Trader 5of7 @ TheCollectiveFX.com
    Post by: 5of7, Apr 15, 2009 in forum: Automated Trading

  11. How much capital does your automated system trade?

    I strongly disagree as well. There are indeed strategies that are profitable. Of course each equity-curve profile will require differing...
    Post by: 5of7, Apr 15, 2009 in forum: Automated Trading

  12. How much capital does your automated system trade?

    There are lots of ways to filter a strategy (when it is good, when it is bad), google it and numerous methods and ways of evaluating strategy...
    Post by: 5of7, Apr 10, 2009 in forum: Automated Trading

  13. Who offers autotrading from trendlines? (desperate)

    We have done it with Tradestation and Metatrader, but that was eons ago and my old code is on a dusty DVD somewhere since we don't use TS or MT4...
    Post by: 5of7, Apr 10, 2009 in forum: Automated Trading

  14. How much capital does your automated system trade?

    RoughTrader is correct in many aspects he mentioned with respect to Tradestation. Clearly someone who has been around : - ) Consider also that...
    Post by: 5of7, Apr 10, 2009 in forum: Automated Trading