Recent content by Eriksson

I trade small account @ oanda Oanda has tight spread (not important to me though) No lots, you can trade $1 if you like Quite good platform, works in Linux also You can select leverage, and change it from 20-50 in few secs Stops and losses work ok (slippage.. yes perhaps, but work...

how about spend 87 Billion in education and clever PR in favor of US in Iran?

thanks, but I already new that :p Still, I am not joking.. so I need more "ideas" :)

I want to know if it is possible to control java trading platforms via programming. Sorry, but my java experience is close to non, thats why I am asking. The general idea is to automate trading, Currently I am using Oanda, and they have java trading platform. Buying/selling, moving stops...

Here is a copy paste from my transaction history, it seems like oanda demo account is working overtime.. look at the time.. Sat Oct 4 09:49:08 2003 Take Profit GBP/CHF 250000 2.2325 Sat Oct 4 09:49:13 2003 Take Profit EUR/GBP 250000 0.6932 Sat Oct 4 10:10:26 2003 Stop Loss USD/CAD...

Anyone comfortable with 1:50 leverage should make money fast enough using 1:50 .. So higher leverage is pretty much a trap IMHO.

I agree, one is not stuck with lot sizes, and can therefore adjust the actual leverage. I give Oanda few points also for not providing 100:1 or even higher leverage. Seems like they want to suck us dry, a little slower than most brokers :D Best Eriksson

How do you like oanda so far? I like there demo...

ok thanks headcutter :) I was just curious, yes long periods of tick data must be quite big. It seems to me that 10m is close enough to reality to simulate real situations. 1hour (one tick per hour) perhaps if one is only focusing on big swings. best Eriksson

Thanks H2O I have been testing oanda and trying several of my findings for two weeks now. Some other places too. The question was perhaps not clear enough.. What kind of data do you guys use for backtesting over the period of one year?? Are these huge files with one tick every 10 sec...

For the record I am a noob, I have never traded anything. Three weeks ago I discovered (!) online trading and have been surfing the web to find out what this is all about.... For some strange reason I am stuck with the idea that forex is the way to go for me. ( I could back up this statement...