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I forgot to mention, if you look at peak and trough analysis (in other words defining an uptrend as a series of higher highs and higher lows and a downtrend as a series of lower highs and lower lows), I think it's a faster signal then looking at 3 moving averages crossover. But every time you...

Well, I read both of your messages but I'm wondering from your point of view, can you easilly make $10,000 to $100,000 a day in futures? Because from what I read in the liquidity thread in the Forex trading forum, you'd be able to trade large enough to make that much easilly in Forex. By the...

I don't trade stocks anymore but maybe this would be of use to you. I noticed from a visual point of view on daily charts of individual stocks that by the time a 20, 50 and 200 period moving averages cross, the stock will have made 5 or 6 retracements (whether in an uptrend or downtrend) and...

I tried options for a while until I realized the problems with liquidity and large spreads were just not appealing to me. I tried trading stocks that had similar moves to the S&P 500 but larger moves, in other words, high beta stocks. But, I noticed sometimes those stocks followed the...

I don't know I never got a requote message from GFT Forex, but with IBFX and their MT4 trading platform (fortunately, just a demo I'm using for now), I get messages saying requote sometimes that slows down my trade execution. What is the purpose of a requote and why would they do this to you?

I only read the first post and I've struggled with the same sort of problem. After thinking about the problems in my trading, I thought about and tested several methods in two different demo accounts. I finally had some positive results with one method (although I haven't tried it with real...

I'm not an expert in systems trading although I've read some people use brokers who have the Metatrader4 platform so they can just program things in there. But the programs I've heard about the most are Ninjatrader (they have a list of compatible brokers on their site) and TradeStation. I...

Well, in some ways I think some of these concepts are pretty odd. People usually call it "risk tolerance". I have a video of Jack Schwagger (author of Market Wizards) where he says that he looked at the performance of CTAs (money managers in the futures markets) working for a brokerage firm...

You mean MB Trading? Yeah, I meant only 10 standard lots which I believe represents 100,000 which would mean 1 million. Do you mean that they have something similar to the time and sales in the stock market?

Well, actually, I'm not claiming to have found the "Holy Grail" of trading. But, I DID want to find some methods that are at least COMPATIBLE with price fluctuations you often see in the markets. And right now I have a couple of ideas that seem to "fit" like a piece of a puzzle with familiar...

I don't know if anyone here wants to "brag" about putting on large size, but I started wondering lately about liquitidy since I developed a new method that seems promising. I only plan to trade 1 mini lot at a time for a while but if I get up to 10 standard lots at a time, what are my chances...

In reality, at one point when testing various methods in two different demo accounts, I did have some strategies that conflicted with each other. One method was giving me a signal to go long and the other a signal to go short just a while later (or vice versa). In the end, I finally figured...

There are several reasons why I could do a trade in the opposite direction. Maybe I should repeat this is currently in two demo accounts, I haven't tried this live yet. One is for two seperate strategies where I'd be entering at different times anyway. The other is when I think the price may...

Well, part of the reason is when two different strategies conflict with each other. The other reason is to see if it would work because you never know. At the same time I kind of wanted to know if my trades would be like a contrarian indicator for the banks I know it sounds paranoid but it...

Are you kidding? If I was long in a GFT Forex account and short the same currency at DBFX, it would be illegal? How could anyone know I was long and short at the same time? What in the world is the logic behind banning that anyway?

Well, I was kind of thinking of it from a mathematical point of view. If you looked at it like a coin toss, let's say every once in a while you could have 10 consecutive losses. If you did only one trade per day, you could have 10 days of losses. I figured if I did two trades per day instead...

Well, I forgot to be a little more specific. I mean if I have an account at GFT Forex and open an account at FXCM. I think it would seem faster to go long and short at the same time if I only had to switch accounts by only clicking on the taskbar. From a strategy point of view, I still...

If I wanted to be long in one account and short in another account with the same currency pair, would I be able to get away with it if I were in separate accounts? One reason for wanting to do this is because some of my trading strategies actually conflict with each other. Like I may have a...

Bloomberg, CNBC. Are you really only getting in once news comes out?

I went from demo to small amounts of money to demo again. I find it's usefull to get a feel for a strategy with small amounts of money. I got to a point where I could respect my strategy, get in where I was supposed to, then exit on my stop manually without even needing a stop loss order. And...