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Loss and positive return traders are cancel each other and the mean return is zero. That's all you need to know. This is one of the key things you can judge about with some certainty.

Yeah most probably scalping is the only strategy that works in FX. Also the fact that it features large number of traders allows you to verify your strategy in a short period of time

When emotions are involved you will likely make a lot of mistakes and place trades where R/R ratio is heavily against you. That's why trader should focus on how to eliminate emotions from trading.

I have negative balance protection too at Hotforex but I guess it's unlikely that I will ever use this feature because I only trade liquid pairs like EURUSD or USDJPY and also avoid trading during Asian sessions

Ignoring losses can lead to poor risk management and ultimately result in larger losses. It is important for traders to acknowledge and learn from their losses in order to improve their trading strategies and avoid making the same mistakes in the future.

Lots of trades is just arbitrage or construction and maintenance of some portfolio with certain risk exposure or trading liquidity premia, momentum, trades etc. This has nothing to do with determining value, yet contributes a lot to the volume.

What about relationship between slippage and leverage that you use? Shouldn't a trader expect more slippage due to natural liquidity constraints especially in the times of high volatility?

You can try just allocate smart portion of you capital to this venture, maybe 10-20% and then see how it goes. Anyway it should be useful experience.

this one, also dailyfx. MT5 platform also has inbuild calendar same to others I think they use same source (probably Reuters)

That's true. It's not the way how prop firms hire traders. Entry threshold is quite high - computer science or math degree, preferably PhD. They also care about your GPA.

Forex is arranged by dealers you can't do anything with it. Anyway somebody has to win and other has to lose, it's a zero sum game

It's a good type of business but requires investments into advertising and to maintain trading activity from existing referalls. I invited two friends to Hotforex that generate good trading volume since they use EAs that places lots of signals and what I can say is that making 300 USD month just...

Yeah lots of various signal providers there and very flexible search you should definitely find something according to your needs

I never called my broker Hotforex because well everything can be done online, their support responds within minutes, I think using call line for online services is a bit obsolete

Yes because scalping is the most profitable thing. Many broker which do dealing desk try to limit their activity.

There is no way to do that. You can collocate with signal provider or both use same VPS to reduce latency to a couple of ms.

To achieve that goal you have to trade according to strict trading plan which includes how many trades you make per day, which assets, size of stop loss and take profit, etc. You basically have to limit the room for emotional decisions to the minimum this is the key to improve trading discipline.

This is obvious yes, the topic start might ask about the difference in terms of price behaviour. In my view stocks mean returns are skewed to some positive value and their distribution has fatter tails while currency returns resemble lognormal distribution better.

Yes just don't forget to adjust your final results for transaction costs sometimes they make great impact and can make your judgements about demo system misleading.

I use FXStat from Hotforex and the one from Etoro however I allocated only 20% on my trading capital for it, the rest is used for proprietary trading systems.