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I found this report from Bank of International Settlement The report can be downloaded from this link (pdf). My observation on this change in market bahavior is confirmed in the report: The evidence presented in this Report shows that over the period from mid-2004 to March 2006 the...

Ive been exploiting short term volatility for mechanical system design, but has never been learning what fundamental factors do determine volatility. Could anyone please point me where to look at this, any books or other resources ? Thank you so much. :)

TrueStory, thank you for your relieving answer. I run a volatility-dependent system, and I have less-frequent trades these days. I start to worry about the market, will it move more in the future, more volatility like the past time.. I'm not quite understand the correlation between market's...

pardon me, im a newbie in this forum. does anyone notice a much smaller volatility in forex' intraday behavior ? when i place a 300 or 500 bar average true range on 15minute charts of eurusd, gbpusd, usdchf, usdjpy, they are declining a lot since november 2006. what may cause this ? is...

LOL. You're funny. Expert Advisor is not man who are an expert and being an advisor. :D Its a programmed algorithm in MQ4 platform.

So a pure technical trading style, no fundamental, will be the most appropriate approach for these "sythetic instument" ?

Will it be like trading the forex pairs ? How to generate chart for these stock pairs ? Are those chart available ? And what about execution ? When entering a Long position on a pair, so we should long at one single stock and short the other. The execution of each single trades will effect...

Dear Don, what is the timeframe/time horizone the traders use mostly in your company ? Are there traders who trade a long term trend-following system with your prop money ? Have you seen a consistently profitable intraday futures/forex trader in you company ? Thanks in advance. :)

31, Bali, Indonesia Papertrade stock 1995 but never understood it :p FX since 2003 and still struggling :D Learning futures now

All this kind of things happen when trader use a discretionary approach. Smaller chance for this to happen when a trader use a mechanical system, whether it is automated or manually executed. Correct me if wrong. :confused:

so I hav tu lern zis eurenglish to be abl to open an akun wz zem :D

Yes, I've been trading FX for more than 3 years, and i've just realize that recently.. So all those bs about how fx is better then futures, they are all misleading. :( correct me if im wrong..

You trade this strategy on SPOT FX, don't you ? I've found that the cost of spot FX is too expensive. Comparing the cost (spread and comission if available) with the daily ATR or several hours' ATR is too big. I think the ER2 or the FDAX seem more suitable for intraday strategy ? correct me...

This thread has brought me into thinking about using the swap free brokers. Some FX broker gives swap free facility for clients. :confused: