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Hey biggun, you're shooting blanks if you are referring to any of the posts I've made here mentioning Oanda. I have absolutely no connection with them. But they have certainly caught my eye with their low-cost business model, and I do think anyone investigating forex trading should look into...

Margo, Love your journal. It's meaty and spicy too. But I wonder if you could - forgive me for the lame cook-show reference - kick it up another notch. I believe you wrote that you have been swing trading for about three years. Could you tell us a bit about your previous trading experience...

TheOne, I can't comment on Ensign, but Amibroker is a powerful backtesting program that can do almost anything you want. The programming language takes some getting used to, however, so you'll have your work cut out for you. The system is really more appropriate for people with semi- to...

Yeah baby! Brother! Whatever! - go for it.

oanda had yet to implement a trailing stop feature in its software as of the last time i looked into it about two months ago. do a search under trailing stop on their message board and you'll find a discussion about it. users have been asking for it and the owners have said they would put it on...

You can use EliteTraders search menu in the upper right hand corner to do that... or simply use the below link to see all of Profitseer posts: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/searc...rder=descending What Profitseer said is a nice gold nugget if any trader wants to integrate price moving...

Profitseer said this about moving averages: "I've gone on and an about this because it's worked so well for me, but a more predictive way is to simply draw a horizontal line every time ma crosses." Hi Profitseer, I've been studying up on moving averages and would be interested in reading...

I've done a lot of searching around the net for fx forums and the best I've found is hosted by Oanda. Go to: http://fxtrade.oanda.com/resources/forums.shtml There are some experienced traders there who will answer your questions directly, and I've also benefited from browsing through...

if your system is truly robust - that is, if you have identified an area of not just fleeting trend but persistent, enduring trend, and your trading approach effectively, consistently harvests it, you're on easy street, baby. if not, i wouldn't wanna be in your shoes.

i just typed up a lengthy entry comparing today's cme currency rates for the majors (i've been monitoring them) with what can be found at a few of the fx shops out there - and then i lost it. damn. i won't do that again. but the gist of it was that the cme's eur/usd rates seems to be...

woops - new to this though i am, i actually do know that stocks and equities are one and the same.

metooxx, thanks for your quick reply. But could you elaborate just a bit. Do you mean to say that options trend more? more than currencies? more than any other investment? Also, it is my understanding that forex currency spreads are, in fact, very competitive. Oanda has the EUR/USD at two...

That is a no edge game ... Metooxx, Why do you say currencies are a no-edge game? Currencies trend like crazy. And, in my mind at least, trend = edge = profit opportunity. Hence, currencies ought to present all kinds of profit opportunities. I'll admit I have a lot to learn about...

are you trading futures? if so britefutures.com has ascii data for end of day for almost all commods thanks monsoon - however, i'm trading spot forex. appreciate your reply, though.

Hi, thanks for the replies. I'll check out wealthlab and amibroker. I notice there are quite a few off-the-shelf automatic trading solutions for equities, but this area doesn't seem to be as well developed for forex traders. i wonder if that's because the demand isn't there? or does it...

hi all, i'm a trading software newbie and want figure out the best way to test my sysytem ideas on historical end-of-day data. as i see it, i need to: a) get my hands on a program that will allow me this. (i want to be able to tell it to monitor end-of-day prices, and then buy and sell...