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    Why would anyone choose IG over IB?

    I moved from IG to IB as well. First I opened an account with them because I was living in the UK, so the spread betting market was interesting, specially because of the tax benefits that provides to UK citizens. Their API is actually pretty good, way better than the horrible piece of rubbish...
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    Is ES rigged?

    For every Futures market look at the Options market equivalent. For one simple reason: https://www.sec.gov/news/studies/ordpay.htm Payment for order flow leaves an unfavorable position for retail traders in the Options market and, as a consequence, the Futures market. So, is it rigged? I...
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    Advanced level Grid Martingale Strategy based Expert Advisor for AUSUSD and EURCHF

    Martingales are based on the theory that eventually a trend that is against you will reverse and your system will be able to recover loses. That is a false premise against the general market behavior. Trends do reverse but on major events that happen on specific situations. A trend is likely to...
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    broker

    Interactive Brokers won't check your experience against anything, they throw at you that questionnaire to cover themselves in case you wipe your account. So you can pretty much say anything about your experience as soon as you understand that you are taking the risk to do it.
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    Credit rating firms are completely worthless...

    Credit rating firms are famous for labeling AAA products a whole bunch of garbage. So yes, you are the best kind of right
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    How do you calculate risk/reward and probability?

    https://www.investopedia.com/articles/stocks/11/calculating-risk-reward.asp
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    Let's discuss data sources (providers)

    Yahoo Finance has been providing daily candles for years at not cost, I don't think they will stop offering the service. That is a safe data source if you want to trust them. Anyway, since you are looking for daily snapshots only, look for the key word "end-of-day" data. They are normally free...
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    News Fidelity Investments has Opened Bitcoin Trading to the Public During Ongoing Banking Crisis

    From the article: "Customers are able to buy and sell bitcoin, although they will not be able to transfer it to a self-custody wallet where the user controls their private keys" Dear Fidelity, those are not Bitcoins.
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