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Why would anyone start up a fund without an edge? Also an edge is not the holy grail, you have to look at volatility relative to your comparative rivals, you have to look at how big your edge relative to your rivals, you have to look at your transaction costs relative to the end result to do...

That is a large piece of ground you are trying to cover there. Doyou have any quantitative or anecdotal evidence to back this up? There are many ways to have an edge in directional trading, especially in the fx market. We can still break this down into so many sub-categories in terms of...

Wait for it.......wait for it.......what is your credit card number? I saved this thread all the foreplay!

Its not excellent, it is the basic level of service that is required by them especially with them promoting these forex ethics guidelines. What about the lost opportunity to make a profit?

good luck.............my advice to less ambitious traders would be to weigh the the cost of money lost on platform, order execution and spread widening issues against moving to a more expensive broker who solves all those other problems.

When the dealer began to shuffle the deck after every hand Edward Thorpe got up, took his money and left. If you can't calculate your edge, get out, simple.

Lol, after reading some of the recent posts on the oanda message board, it seems as though it is the wild wild west out there! Have they really sunk below FXCM?

If your order is on their server why does it not execute? At mb i put on my orders, close the application and do something else and have never had 1 issue no matter how fast the market is on execution. I also never had unreasonable slippage. This is the reason why i endure mb's high swap rates...

The Alchemy of finance, soros on soros, stan druckemiller in the new market wizards and the preview on scott besent in inside the house of money. You not going to learn anything for a retail trader. By the way soros confirms that he can't trade fx rates effectively due to the irrationality of...

lol!!!

In the market 1 + 1 usually doesn't equal 2, sometimes it will equal 2.5, 2.1, 1.9 ect. The problem with being adaptive is that it usually results in curve fitting and style drift, both usually have the effect of reducing your capital. The best thing is to have the skill to survive the bad...

If read above i never said that you cant make money trading eur/usd, whatever you make on eur/usd you can make more on most other pairs with exception of a few others. Most people will make money for 2007 and 2008 because of the subprime crises but once we get to 2001/2002 makets many will...

You guys are kidding me right! Not one of the posts regarding eur/usd is correct. Has any one of you done a time series analyses on eur/usd or just a basic stat test on its movement? It is one of the worst pairs to trade statistically. If you trading longterm fine but short-term a big noooo...

You are wasting your time, just look at this guy pabst's past's threads, it stinks of racism and those he attracts in his threads are filled with joy at the chance to preach hate about different race groups. You just need to realise that guys like this are the minority and worst off in the...

That's a relief, i was hoping you didn't say something like 30, 32. Its consistent with research studies that i have read, you are a dying breed but its not your fault its just that through most of your development years you were exposed to racism and your parents were exposed to the hey day of...

every single one of those, including daily, weekly monthly, 20tick, 30 ticks etc. There are players at all levels you need to know whether you trading microstructure, time series movement, economic movements etc, before you decide what time frame to trade. I hope you are still on demo!

How about a serious answer, if you don't want to answer, i understand, just say no and thats that! Regards.

How old are you? I honestly would like to know hold you are, this is the second comment of yours that i have read this week and i was just wondering how old are u, seriously?