FX brokers ain't brokers. They're dealers. In a fair market, you get a selection of dealers so if ones crooked you can always patronize another....
random entries are not 50/50 due to spread/comms/slippage. 10 ticks tp/sl with 1 tick spread its about 40/60. this still holds in a trend,...
What did you mean by losing streak? I'm guessing you didn't lose 150 trades in a row? :eek: Or you just ended day in the red?
if profitable systems can be found on the net, then why do 80-90% of traders lose? *ps: don't give me the same old psychology excuse. the rules...
$500/mth for the optimizer thingy? LOL WHAT WERE THEY SMOKING??? :confused:
1) People with little capital and so can't meet the minimum account requirement by futures brokers or the margin requirement. 2) People who...
got my data from ANfutures. bid only i think. my backtesting software is amibroker and i don't think they can display bid-ask together. (ok, i...
Normally data comes in either bid or ask chart format. Most commonly sold in bid chart format. (only shows ticks for the bid) Now how would you...
if its Ref vs Oanda then its Oanda by a HUGEEEEEEEE margin.
you do know that efficient market theorists derive their findings from empiricial data? you also know that if a mathematician write something like...
In BJ counting, it takes 10,000 hands to really show if the player has an edge. The rest of the time, equity changes are due to variance. In fact,...
He is probably one of them "honest system seller". Everyone else I know are either against holy grail peddling or tried once and is now against...
No, sorry. Those doesn't show that they have an edge. Moneytec is filled with people who do all of the above and claim they make 1000+ ticks a...
finding the trend isn't the problem and we all know it. using MAs even newcomers have a 100% chance of being in the trend with the right positions...
no spread? really?
Must be my mistake then... Ooops, guess not. Let me rephrase: ANYONE selling a system is a CROOK.
the question is: how do we know these "others" have an edge with hammers?
the thing is: how do we know our entries aren't random?
which time frame u trade on? 5/15/30 mins charts?
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