Recent content by Cassius

There are quite different conditions in different branches. Almost like it's different companies. As far as I know requotes are seen only in one "old-style" account type in Alpari NZ. Others have much better execution.

I've had some experience with their unregulated NZ branch. They indeed had different data feeds for demo and for live accounts. Demo feed usually had faster execution but this demo feed was also used for some testing purposes. So there were sometimes disruptions in demo while the live feed was...

A number of brokers call themselves Non-Dealing Desk. The problem is, one can't see the actual path of orders. Brokers can easily lie about it and most likely they do. On the other hand, even true Non-Dealing Desk just forwards your orders to a bigger broker, and this bigger one may be nothing...

When I'm telling about "loosers" I mean everybody who buy when we sell and v.v. It doesn't matter what do they have in mind while buying. They bought -> price goes down -> they have loss and we have profit. Hedgers or traders, its all the same.

I'm not telling stories about whole market running out of money. Don't forget that any profit one could earn is somebody else's mistake. So we have to think only about some small portion of the market, the loosers who trade our pattern in reverse way. No loosers - no profit. Do you know that...

So you think there are EA's that work forever? No, there are none. Every pattern once dissipatates. And what's the reason for this dissipation? The essense of exploiting each pattern is getting other people's money. That how market works. The more people get knowledge about some pattern the less...

That's just one thing about it. Another is that if some profitable EA becomes public people start using it. But the more people use it the less profitable it is. Money isn't appearing out of nowhere. If you win something it means somebody else lost. And if one man loses $100 and a hundred wins...