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Why do you think it is risky? The only change from swing trade I see is difference in frequency of trades :D

I use Hotforex raw spread account and Tickmill Pro can't say their rates are best on all pairs, but well this is basically part of edge - find reliable platform which offer better rates on instruments which you trade.

Because of such questions I think you HAVE to start from trading without leverage :D

Right, I really don't understand why some traders are so concerned about who is the counterparty. Conflict of interest with broker is one of the mentioned reasons, but why conflict of interest with LP (any other counterparty) can't be the reason to offer you less attractive entry/exit conditions...

In your opinion what are key drivers of mean reversion? Profit taking? Self-fulfilling prophecy?

What do you mean by trade receipts? How do you verify that they are genuine. Fake LP report can be generated easily since there are no proper and known verification procedures.

Nice, please also share live account performance results so we can see how your predictions work on distance.

Individual experiences can be hardly representative. Traders have different level education, risk appetite, control of emotions, trading capital etc. Your opinion can be misleading. But I should say that FX trading is extremely challenging much harder than trading stocks.

I think its cheaper to trade FX CFDs rather than currency futures, also due to lax regulations gains are not taxable which is big advantage, imo.

Nice suggestion. Anyway any recommendations of books to read?

That's why it is important to choose brokers from jurisdictions which cap leverage, like FCA. I heard with new rules you can't choose more than 1:20 in CFD trading.

Would like to hear your suggestions, especially based on your experience, application of knowledge derived from the books in live trading. Thanks in advance.

Presence of autocorrelation says a time series can be approximated by some function of its several lags, while clearly momentum is short-term phenomenon which happens only sometimes (rarely). So I think presence/absence of autocorrelation says nothing about occurrence of momentum simple because...

Do you really think there are so dumb to not realise that and appropriately incorporate this notion in their models? Assumption about normal distribution of prices was questioned in the past century, it is now used only in simplified text book models as introduction to the topic ;)

I wonder how do broker calculate % of losers? I mean what are the criteria? Something tells me that output is quite sensitive to how you define a loser. We all lose in the long run, so I think there should be some reasonable distance like one year. If within one year account lost lost then the...

Yes I use momentum strategy for news it works fine but requires careful choice of suitable broker.

Manual trading is tough I would recommend to try to automate your approach to eliminate effect of human factor on your performance. It is especially in scalping where manual trading has more drawbacks than advantages.

Looks like reliable choice, I would also add IB, Lmax, Tickmill and Hotforex to the list of candidates.

Opportunity to short sell ARS against any major would be pretty easy win since their public finances won't likely to recover soon which requires constant currency devaluation. Who would make the market for you?

For some industries company services tend to deteriorate as the company matures. This happens with "reliable" companies which obtain solid client base and has little incentive to compete (i.e. strive to outperform). This is the issue with old brokers too and of course it is another edge of the...