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And what that points should be? Easier to say than done! You have to accumulate order filling data, etc. to draw conclusions about the platform.

If you talk about official broker statistics I think the goal is to calculate share of the traders who stayed afloat/above breakeven after 1/3/6 months of trading and it doesn't matter when a trader opened his account and if it became inactive later.

Yes and also it is very fast platform especially when using on collocation, low ping allows to run quite powerful EAs

It'll be virtually impossible to lose trading with low or no leverage because you have to be too unlucky to buy on global top or sell in global through

I think markets will get more certainty with Biden in trade policy, relationship with Fed, etc. so we should expect less "information shocks"

I use special account at Hotforex for scalping called raw spread account - almost no spread but fixed commission. it's important to reduce floating part of transaction costs in scalping because you place a lot of trades and you need consistency.

Hedging is useful when you understand types of risk you face and why you want to mitigate particular risk. For me hedging is the hardest part of risk because dealing with uncertainty boils down working with real-life probabilities which often are not quantifiable.

Shows they have no plan other than wait for a vaccine and reimpose lockdowns periodically to not run out of healthcare reserves.

I'm fond of recent volatility on Gold, I think 2020 is a year of Gold because these up and downs make it possible to earn even with the use of low leverage.

I guess Oanda should fit the bill. I also use Hotforex to hedge some trades with them due to specific US regulations.

The amount you pay depends on the position size, not leverage. The leverage just increases your ability to make trades which position size exceeds your own capital. If you trade 1 lot you pay spread for 1 lot, if 2 lots - for 2 lots.

Trading without stop loss is a time ticking bomb. Equity curve of a trader which trades without stop loss resembles equity curve of martingale trader: stable growth and then abrupt and steep fall. This happens due to the fact that wrong trades (entries) which can wipe out your account happen...

Hmmm interesting so you made some in-depth research and shortlisted only one broker? Really? Unbeatable candidate :D?

It client-server solution of trading platform for brokers and traders. They are widely used. MT5 is a major upgrade from MT4 which is a bit obsolete. The platform supports automatic backtesting and possess basic tools for technical analysis

Lol :D

Nice suggestion. I'm also with them and happy that they maintain the level of services. I would also suggest to test drive Hotforex, a bit more versatile broker with many account types.

Despite visual similarity, unobvious part is completely different. Many profitable demo strategies lose in live because "easy" money are grabbed by arbitrageurs thanks to their speed edge. This is why many novice traders fail and the reason why profitable live trading strategies are so...

Check also Tickmill and Hotforex. They should definitely have 150+ instruments since apart from currencies they support bonds, indices, stocks commodities as well.

Where do we get access to liquidity for that instruments? Why do you prefer them to something ordinary like futures or options?

Looks like you stole description from some loyal to MT4 review website or from MT4 website directly :D. It's good platform which I use from Hotforex but I wouldn't say you can get staggering performance there but enough to trade some CFDs occasionally.