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    Best low cost platform and/or broker for $5000 account...

    If offshore is ok for you then I can suggest Tickmill or Hotforex, I conducted many tests on their platform both on demo and live accounts and they offered quite competitive conditions in terms of speed and transaction costs.
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    Standard deviation for irregularly spaced timeseries

    I'm afraid I'll find difficult to code it properly. What I try to learn is how mean-reversion on 1M timeframes depends on near-term preceding volatility of returns. Using BTC data I wanted to pick some random days in 2020 and from tick data construct time series with interval of 0.5s - 1s...
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    Standard deviation for irregularly spaced timeseries

    yes and I want to make time series from this garbage. So any thoughts?
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    Standard deviation for irregularly spaced timeseries

    Hi fellows, Suppose I have a collection of irregularly spaced time series (tick data with time_obs(i+1) - time_obs(i) ranging from 2ms to 20ms). I want to calculate 1-minute standard deviation of returns. The question is: should the number of observations be the same in the every sample of 1...
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    Should we ignore loss in Forex Trading?

    If you follow your plan and stick to the rules you don't have to worry about losses and take is as natural property of any trading strategy - it generates losses and profits but makes the latter more often so your expected value per trade is positive. That's the key to successful trading - you...
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    Very low spread FOREX broker

    How much do they charge? I have 4$ round-turn commission on Hotforex, any cheaper options?
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    Demo account with real account experience

    which trading indicators can you recommend? they are all lagging how they can have predictive power?
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    Which currency are you trading? - EUR/USD/AUD/JPY?

    Try commdollars, coming phase of pickup in the next business cycle should help them to outperform USD, JPY and CHF. If you of course focus on macro trends or prefer fundamental analysis to make predictions.
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    Demo account or Micro ?

    There are both pros and cons in this approach. The drawback is that you'll lose these money, the advantage is that you can test your psychology to understand how your mind responds to profit and loss, i.e. handle events which involve various quite strong feelings like fear to lose, inability to...
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    Market depth with MT4

    Depends on what products you trade. If it is CFD you trade with a dealer, he provides liquidity to you so there is nothing to display except price.
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    How to find the best from all forex brokers?

    Nice but I think you spam your broker too much on this forum which definitely requires mods attention
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    Should we ignore loss in Forex Trading?

    If you follow your plan and stick to the rules you don't have to worry about losses and take is as natural property of any trading strategy - it generates losses and profits but makes the latter more often so your expected value per trade is positive. That's the key to successful trading - you...
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    How is CFG forex trading different from Spot Forex trading?

    If you are interested only in making money from price fluctuations and don't want/need to hold currency physically your choice should be CFD. It is cheaper, allows fractional/micro/nano lots, etc. The drawback is that a dealer sets bid/ask for you and becomes counterparty on your orders. The...
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    Very low spread FOREX broker

    Good broker I currently use them along with Hotforex to run some arbitrage strategies. I like their tight spreads on some exotics and indices.
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    Ultra-fast FX feed via websocket?

    What are the best FX price sources which support fix? Are there any free options?
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    EURUSD, GBPUSD weekend OTC price feed?

    I see that some binary option brokers offer trading on weekend of major currency pairs like EURUSD, GBPUSD, USDJPY etc. They are all OTC, i.e. there are some specific dealer which forms prices. Any ideas what is the source of their price feed? Your replies are much appreciated.
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    tips for become a good trader?

    If you're complete newbie I would recommend babypips pip school or FPA Military school or some cheap Amazon book about forex. This would get you in into the subject quickly and then you have to start asking yourself questions and make corresponding research. There is no guide or ready solution.
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    Ultra-fast FX feed via websocket?

    More info..please
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    Ultra-fast FX feed via websocket?

    5-20 ms is ok I think
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    Ultra-fast FX feed via websocket?

    Anybody knows brokers/firms which offer ultra-fast FX feed (OTC) via websocket? Possibly paid one? Would appreciate your suggestions.
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