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Can I... can I... have the AFL? :D

If I understand that right, then is there an asymmetry in the number of contracts I can open between going long USDEUR and going short EURUSD?

funnyguy_2nd, I assume one of the major things I have wrong is assuming the base currency is USD, not EUR. That should explain why I am fixated on 99 lots instead of 82 lots. I wanted to understand this first. When I was casually browsing around with how currencies generally work, the...

funnyguy, I see you did a lot there. I got the email notice and just kind of assumed somebody just did a one-liner in the thread and that would be it for the night. You kind of caught me by surprise! It's pretty late here so I can't verify everything this evening but I'll be working on it...

I'm adding in the math for margin calls and such so I'm starting to understand the parlance here. Like, what it means when people talk about margin required versus flat out talking about the leverage. And I can appreciate why 100:1, er 1% required is so crazy. I guess you can get a margin...

Guys I'm just trying to figure out how the math here works. What leverage I use to fill in the blanks is not the issue. Fine, make it 50:1 The formula for calculating a profit, without considering commissions, the spread, or what not, appears to be: contacts * (entrance price - exit...

I had hoped using 100:1 would make the numbers a little bit rounder.

I've been trying to hand calculate some backtest results from Amibroker when doing a 100:1 margin spot forex test. This is the best I can come up with for some of the results. I have questions about most of it so I hoped some regulars can help me out. Let's say I'm looking at EURUSD. On...

The parameters I am thinking of for an MACD indicator are the fast average, the slow average, and the smoothing average. I've run into some situations where I screwed up and made the fast average longer than the slow average. What I always see in examples is the smoothing average fitting...

How do you know that didn't already happen? http://www-ai.ijs.si/eliza-cgi-bin/eliza_script

I've heard of time to first post, but not time to first pot. However, I think you got it.

Well I got a little more data and that magic 15 lines of code weren't so magical anymore. ;) Heck, I think Something I fail to do is to look at these failure signatures and do that one last, deep analysis that might expose something more interesting. I am due to type up here something I...

Well I finally slapped together something real quick and dirty--literally 15 lines of code--with a week of EURUSD and turned $100k of fake money into $165k. I see a few problems, such as the fact I'd actually be trading USDEUR. And then there's the fact it's only a week of data on one symbol...

Well okay but I'm asking for historical data, not strategies. :p

I keep finding proof the Swiss are cool people. I managed to get their EUR/USD data for a week, which should be plenty to understand superficially how stuff moves. I'll check the other suggestions here too though, one at a time.

During my adventures trying to understand foreign exchange, I found out eoddata.com only stores 9AM-5PM forex tick data. I was curious if there was a good historical provider that has historical forex data. I was thinking maybe of a way to get them at least in month-long blocks--at least a few...

Well I got the official response back from eoddata: they only have forex data for US daytrading hours, whatever that means. It seems to be 9AM - 5PM, some time zone (EST?). I guess my next question then is who is a good forex historical data provider for 1 minute ticks?

Well... let's say that's correct but I had hoped by now I'd instead be asking about good times to trade. Unfortunately--not yet. I had sent something to eoddata.com during the week about where their 24-hour stuff was hiding. I didn't get anything back. So perhaps to usher in further...

Then I'm trying to figure out what the heck I'm looking at on eoddata.com. I'm definitely trusting the guys here since, you know, you actually trade it. I got an account with them originally to download a bunch of tick data for equities, which seemed to work out all right. But now I'm trying...

Roughly speaking then, I would select the exchange and then the currency pair from there? I assume any arbitrage between exchanged operating simultaneously are corrected lightning fast these days. What happens if I'm hitting the end of one market's hours and I want to keep going? Is there a...