I haven't doodled with commodities, so I am speaking somewhat from a position of ignorance--especially compared to the others who already posted....
This is an old thread, but it was mine, so I figured I should post what I did. Since I'm looking into using Oanda, I was able to access their...
I've asked about data providers before, but I have specific needs this time. For the EURUSD, I'm looking for 24-hour data at the resolution of 1...
Yeah I saw some old threads about creep brokerages. Something came up about one that allowed 1:500 leverage that was in Mauritius. Somebody...
I guess I shouldn't be surprised people don't want to jump into the math. :p I was thinking I was probably correct, and that I should look into...
I'm trying to figure out if my strategy is actually viable or if it gets cut to ribbons on commissions. I haven't actually traded forex yet, and...
I'm trying to understand how some of the math with margins goes when doing cross currency trades. I haven't found anything that goes into it, so...
I swear you guys deliberately try to take me out of context here: I did not write "strategy." I have been backtesting a strategy fine and plenty....
I don't think I wrote "strategy" there, just "something." I have given that plenty of testing, but I'd like to practice execution with it. At the...
I'm developing something I'd like to eventually try live, although I haven't even settled on a Broker yet. So in the meanwhile I thought I'd...
I'm a little more sane today, but it wasn't like I could smash through the scripts in Amibroker yet. What I was wondering though from inspection...
I'll have to take some time to do this. I'm still recovering from this cold. I found I do the most horrible math after taking Mucinex so I might...
I didn't have the settings right in AmiBroker: Symbol EURUSD Trade Short Date 7/2/2012 12:13:59 AM Price...
I suppose the underlying reason I have been trying to use the formulas with pip values and the different lot factors is that they seem redundant...
Hmm okay I see it in my own formula above for unleveraged contracts. I had created a formula for the price per lot that looked like this:...
So I think I see how this sets my other math of fire now. So with 100:1 margin, if I had $10,000 to blow on some xxxUSD that's 1.01, I could get...
I had started to doodle all over my last post to add in a concrete example, and it went past 30 minutes. Edit: I'll pencil some more stuff in...
It's true the numbers were a little bit different and I wondered about that, but I was dismissing it as floating point errors and things like...
so if I understand that right if my base currency is in USD, the conversion factor in effect nullifies the entry price, and it becomes risk /...
Throwing in the risk-adjusted position size added some numbers to the whole thing that messed me up. I was following most of it from the position...
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