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It's not always obvious from the first look if conditions are transparent and real pitfalls start to emerge in live trading. In other words you have to incur costs to find out if your broker suits you

Yes it is definitely important to spend as much time on demo as possible till you get really confident that your trading system will yield positive returns after transaction costs (which should be added with sufficient margin) and should be robust to decreased execution quality.

It may be useful to reduce lot size and recover slowly rather than betting on luck and try to revenge market.

I focus mostly on execution speed and regulation. The first factor reflects efficiency of a brokers ECN network, i.e. how often it offers you best available price

C Compared to other dovish central banks or recently turned dovish like BoE, Fed decision definitely looks hawkish. Also there is a room for speculations that they may accelerate the pace of reducing QE

They are going to start tapering as soon as on the next meeting so I think it will be a good push for USD

If we talk about FX then dealers determine bid-ask spreads and this is usually indication of elevated volatility.

Do they derive data from retail traders exposure on those pairs? If yes then I guess it is useless since it's unlikely that their trades can move the market. Also bear in mind that majority of retail traders lose according to broker ads :)

Take rest and try something new. Bad streaks are essential feature of trading and sometimes we should take it as granted.

If you didn't study statistics you'll be unable to understand true meaning of positive expectancy or law of large numbers, because with intuitive approach, our understanding of probabilities are inherently bad. Take for example arcsine law. You may employ some trading strategy which leads to the...

Which type of trading system do you use with them? Scalping?

As a baseline scenario order backlogs, supply bottlenecks will likely linger for some time maybe quarter or two so one rate hike from BoE should be priced. This in turn means further GBP upside is likely tied to BoE outlook on further tightening. If it signals that no further hikes are in cards...

Yeah when you do that many systems become garbage, also slippage is hard to incorporate into backtesting as well, and if you add markup the list of valid trading systems narrows even more.

Focus on central bank intentions, price pressures, especially PPI force them to change communication and hint about early rate hikes

Agree the issue is exacerbated with volatility which are hard to predict and which often trigger stop loss and make losses slowly accumulate.

yeah, another point to take into consideration is transaction costs, in case of heavy scalping they often erase all profit that's why demo trading can be misleading.

Go Good signal for ETH a lot of money will come in to the market from US investors.

Doesn't position size affect execution? When I raise lot I see that execution deteriorates.

Go to trading view make the list of traders that post interesting in your view analysis and try to grasp basic concepts of pattern drawing. You have to train your eye and watch markets a lot if you want to go with technical analysis approach.

Coins generate no returns, i.e. can't pay dividends. Coins are very vague promise that in the future they may become big project. Now trading volumes are leading indicator of crypto popularity if it falls then its a red flag.