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very possible. a lot of BOM customers were saying they would invest more $ if only BOM had some financial backing/credibility.

I'm still thinking about this topic. For those 5-10% who are making big bucks trading...wouldn't brokers be tempted to try and reverse engineer their strategy? I try to think from the point of view of a brokerage. If I were running a brokerage I would... 1) Make big bucks earning the...

These type of averaging down is call "Martingale". It can never be a viable trading system because there will eventually come a trend long enough to wipe you out. Unless you spread your capital per trade in such a way as to be able to average down all the way to 0. In that case, the...

buttontrader is quite user friendly. i liked it too.

I didn't like the odds either. Most of the time the risk:reward is less than 1:1. I second that. Why the resistance in offering vanilla spot currency options? Maybe they felt that people would just go to CME for those?

soon you'll find out why fx dealers are called bucketshops. :D

Oanda just released Box Options for several pairs. What do you guys think about them? Total rip off or a fun alternative way to lose money trading? hey, we all know 90% of traders lose, might as well have fun while doing it!

yes, Refco/CMC has reversed trades before.

trade your own money for 2 years. if u're profitable, then solicit funds. else, don't bother.

of course we can't predict market moves. XD

which one moves more? EUR/USD or EUR/GBP? Like GBP/USD moves much more than EUR/USD (both in ranges and trends).

does that pair trend a lot? seeing GBP in it should mean its quite volatitle like GBP is? hows the natural volatility? higher than eur/usd?

oanda is 1.5 pips.

hows their spread like? 2pips?

Anyone trading this pair? Some bucketshops are offering 1.5 pip spread for this. :eek: Kind of choppy but trends not bad from time to time.

what 10 pair/11 currencies?? hmmmm i'm pming u abt C&C. we were so rudely interrupted last time.

attached is a graph of 1000 coin flips. head or tail = +1 or -1 support, resistance, trend, ranges, retrace, continuation...its all there.

Well, you have been a CTA before right? OPM is about constantly being scrubbed with a fine tooth comb and receiving more phone calls asking how their moneys doing than phone calls from your girlfriend. :D

wifey is the creepy alternate personality of es. :eek: i'm just another ET lamer. :D

What do you think of one strategy where a huge basket of currencies (5-7 pairs) are carried so their respective movement cancel out each other?