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im sure Sun Tzu had learning the markets in mind when he said that :p

install windows vista... oooooo burnt.

does MT4 have the ability to adjust stops as a variable changes? say the progression of the current value of the curvi?

hm. i meant my method to help give stop signals when the price moves so far from the curviline that it seems the trend is broken (beyond the regular variance)

yeech.. i guess it must be really crazy of me to put efforts into improving my trading speed by 3.5miliseconds on average :p not to mention that I also spend a lot of time shaving off microseconds from my trading algorithms.. something tells me that a majority of my fills are against traders...

do you mean the data feed of other platforms are lagged 100s of miliseconds?

i personally like the idea of trailing stops that trail far enough behind based on statistical volatility to not be hit by the 'normal' wave action of a price. it feels intuitive that protecting profits should be part of the game. like people who can bring themselves to leave casinos while they...

http://ratedata.gaincapital.com/ the data is a little ugly. i wrote an app that parsed it all in and made sure everything was in temporal order before using. there are probably gaps in it too. so your system should be able to handle the data feed dropping out.

Yeah you've definitely have been trading longer than me. I didn't know what a bid/ask price was last May. I doubt i'll ever be able to consider myself a trader, more of an AI programmer/math geek. I have the uncanny ability to cause the market to move against any position I take when playing...

have you found that the stress during the down times has taken a toll on your health over the years?

is that soley because the news event(s) or is the system's performance dropping over the past few days?

Hows did it go today? Still in a DD phase? Judging by the size of the killer movement(s), could you have put any protection in place that would not have an effect on any of the good trades?

how is forex a fad? exchanging currencies has been around longer than stocks, futures, options :p i'd guess a few thousand years longer.

im curious. did spot fx keep trading during 9/11?

agreed. my system drifts between going neutral and staying in market depending on market conditions. I am interested in the fundamental performance / costs differences (or any other benefits / drawbacks that people know, ie partial fill issues) when deciding between two sell orders for 100 vs...

why is exploiting free money opportunities considered unethical in forex? if i see that i can buy AAPL on NYSE for 93. and sell on BRUT for 93.5. if i make those trades? is it considered unethical because its 'free money'? someone is going to have to eat that liquidity before it corrects, or...

Hey. Iv been debating this issue for a while now. Im wondering if anyone here have any insights. Say I am long 100 of a stock, and my system decides it is going to reverse direction. Would it be better to sell my 100. and also sell another 100 to catch the down trend in a separate order...

they should'nt impose a minimum lot size since many users use forex for hedging.

they need an all-or-none option for forex trades on IB. it should be left to the user to decide if they want to take small lots at good prices or wait for enough liquidity to fill the whole order in one go.

are you calling me delusional? :D stating i am learning would probably fall under the heading of being a realist. id say anyone who is stating they have already learnt might be deluding themselves :p