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I deeply believe the guy who make 1M from 1K. The intention behind writing his thread is not to tell people that he made lots of money, instead, he just want to tell the poor experience from the broker. In fact, 1000 gains in 18 months just means 46.8% gain per month, and 1.8% per day, of coz...

This is a story from 1K to 1M in 18 months http://www.forexfactory.com/forexforum/showthread.php?t=5742&highlight=smjones which is equivalent to 46.8% in one month or 2-3% with 80-90% success rate. Seems starting from 1M brokers will act against you seriously.. Fine.. I am satisfied...

Dear all formers, May I know any of you can still survive after you can win consistently over the bucketshop ? For how long and how much you gained if you dont mind to tell. Can any algorithm trading on the minutes timeframe can pass the tolerable level of the bucketshop ? Do you also...

This is the thread I retrieved from old elitetrader: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/printthread.php?threadid=52276 and one in another forum http://www.forexfactory.com/forexforum/showthread.php?p=7920 talking about the dirty trick from the brokers In short, it is very likely to be...

Dear all fellows, I had decided to devote my coming times to go automated but it really shocks me after hearing from some of you. Below I would to verify sth... Are the following potential behaviour will be blacklisted by brokers/liquidation bank and/or bucketshop (provided that it...

How to distinguish a bucketshop from a broker ? By experience or by insider news or other method ? I have just checked InterbankFX where I would like to implement my automated system on and it states "We do not hold our customers trades or trade against our customers" I suspect that all brokers...

What are those "spreadbetting" firms ? Any large institutions like Interactive Brokers, Tradestation, Oanda, Man Financial, Gain Capital, FXCM, CMC..will blacklist client simply because they can make profit consistently ? In this sense, there is no difference of playing from broker with...

Dear all fellows, Could anybody tell if you have the experience to be blacklisted by any broker simply because you are consistently profitable (either discretionary or through system trading) ? What are the actions for the blacklisted candidates ? Do not accept any orders from them ...

Dear all fellows, As titled, is there anybody know which data source (or data source within broker's platform) offer the fastest data release ? How about political news ? I am also interested to see if any platform can provide the API (send out release data like type of release, prior, actual...

Thanks for your experience! You all are so generous! 99atlantic: As you have ever worked with futures, have you ever noticed "The Encyclopedia of Commodity and Financial Spreads" ? It has lots of quantitively proved profitable trades (with entry and exit dates) HoundDogOne: Your point 3...

Thanks all fellows ! OddTrader: Oanda is too expensive for me... 600USD per month.. I am just in learning stage. MTE: Does it mean that all spot trades' funds are held at broker's side and not guaranteed ? How is Refco's incident ? Can the clients get back their money wholly at last ...

Dear all fellows, As a novice user, I dont want to use an expensive solution, however, I am also concerning fund safety and will not consider small brokers since even Refco can bankrupt. Attached is my highlighted spreadsheet with the exchange information.. ranked in excess net capital...

Hello to all fellows. I am a newbie in automated trading and it's my first thread here. I am from Hong Kong. Just curious.. any Hong Kongers here ? I found that most automated trading related books were lent from libraries but nobody discuss it in Hong Kong forums. :confused: I have been...