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    The Wallace Trading Method

    the previous journal I wrote was for the euro and I stopped updating it on May 23/2011 writing the journal completely destroyed my 'intuitive' trading system, and caused me to stop using the Elliott Wave theory, the main TA method I used for over 30 years but the journal also led to...
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    Meditation

    I've just started meditating again, must be catching I used to do zazen - Japanese sitting on one's legs when my legs were in shape and fit, otherwise it's pure torture unless you're Japanese or a child I believe the minimum time required for the electro-chemical changes in the brain to...
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    'Spanish economy in "huge crisis" after credit downgrade'

    remembered I'd forgotten this https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/sp.html Spain - Economy GDP (purchasing power parity): $1.411 trillion (2011 est.) country comparison to the world: 14 GDP - real growth rate: 0.8% (2011 est.) country comparison to...
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    'Spanish economy in "huge crisis" after credit downgrade'

    like that sounds like an overdose of Viagra
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    'Spanish economy in "huge crisis" after credit downgrade'

    by Nigel Davies MADRID | Fri Apr 27, 2012 1:08pm BST "(Reuters) - Spain's sickly economy faces a "crisis of huge proportions", a minister said on Friday, as unemployment hit its highest level in almost two decades and Standard and Poor's weighed in with a two-notch downgrade of the...
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    broker bankrupt: currency futures safe???

    if you're trading with a Canadian broker, your account is insured up to C$1,000,000 - highest insured amount in the world
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    how close is Italy to going under ? & video

    'Power Shift Europe' Neil Macdonald on Italy's fiscal reckoning - CBC.ca 21 min: http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/News/TV_Shows/The_National/1233408557/ID=2226773602 https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/it.html Italy - Economy GDP (purchasing power parity): $1.822...
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    AMP Clearing Contact numbers

    here's what I use - US/CA - 1 800 560 1640 - never had a problem with the # I'm using NT with the CQG feed which had a connection problem early today the pop-up message provided the CQG 1 800 Support # - fixed when I phoned you can also check the NT forum / Connecting to see if there's...
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    trade the E-micro EUR/USD M6E ?

    just thinking about trading the M6E overnight, there is an 'excess' margin available with which to daytrade the Oanda margin to day or overnight trade 12,500 is $$328.75 , whereas the M6E margin is $100 , so 3 x 12,500 contracts could be daytraded for $300 at $3.75 a pip not sure if...
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    trade the E-micro EUR/USD M6E ?

    one thing about fx via Oanda I Will note is that one can trade via Oanda 24/365 but they're not staffed between the Fri C and Sun O I'm writing this because at 12:30pm PST checking euro price I see in the Oanda MT4 there were a couple of trades made on Saturday, and from the 1.32145 Fri C...
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    trade the E-micro EUR/USD M6E ?

    this argument about spread or slippage 'cost' is academic Market orders can result in a +/- over/under the Last price/trade result depending how the price may have jumped in the moments after the B/S/C button's been clicked when a Limit order is used there's no spread involved, one's...
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    trade the E-micro EUR/USD M6E ?

    Jack_Larkin: you need to pay a lot more attention to what you're reading before quoting me incorrectly; and compare apples to apples instead of making up new numbers specs: E-micro EUR/USD M6E CME/Globex 12,500 pip value: 0.0001 / $1.25 margin: overnight: $270.00 daytrade: $100.00 AMP rt...
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    trade the E-micro EUR/USD M6E ?

    Oanda: noted for disconnecting the feed especially during the NFP release do Not have a Trading Desk ??? sometimes refuse to close a trade !!! which requires going thru the process of the security question being answered correctly - remember yours ? - then the rep loading FXTrade entering...
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    trade the E-micro EUR/USD M6E ?

    I wasn't looking to daytrade the M6E, strictly DtDs trades so I wouldn't be too concerned about the fill price. Oanda's the largest fx broker and yes the volume of trades they process is higher especially in the quiet times, however I thought I could more easily open a second account with AMP...
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    trade the E-micro EUR/USD M6E ?

    thinking this contract might be better than spot fx for Day-to-Days trading specs: E-micro EUR/USD M6E CME/Globex 12,500 pip value: 0.0001 / $1.25 margin: overnight: $270.00 daytrade: $100.00 AMP rt comm: $1.99 Oanda margin: 12,500 EUR/USD @ 1.3150 leverage 50:1 = $328.75 margin Oanda...
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    Tick Data Backtesting In Metatrader

    my understanding of both 'ticks' and volume in MT 4 are that they are price changes only - not trades. also whatever trades are going thru, one doesn't know the quantity of the order, it could be 1 micro lot or 10 lots, and the total isn't known until the end of the price bar - 1 or 5min...
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    Is pattern-recognition ability decreased with age?

    there are two hemisphere to the brain, the left can be said to be logic/math and the right spatial/visual different iq tests test different hemispheres. many people - males in particular have a bias to one side or the other, females in general have better balanced hemispheres the most...
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    No dealing desk brokers

    you can open a futures account with http://www.ampfutures.com/ with as little as $500 the 6E Euro FX contract requires $500 to daytrade where one pip = $12.50 and the roundturn commission is $5.74 . trades are executed in the CME Globex exchange and AMP - and other brokers - provide the...
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    thicker MT4 price bars

    the '1 MSG Silver' indicator creates a H - L bar but without the O and C indications – if you want to see the C or O use an MA 1 C or O unlike Heiken Ashi bars/candles and others, the Correct bar length is displayed – rt clk chart Properties/Common and select 'Chart on foreground' and...
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    how major is the $ decline ?

    will it stop at 78 ? drop to 72 ? break thru 71 ? or do you think it's going to the moon ? for the last 4 years the price formation's been a puzzle to me, did it form a Major base between 08 and 11 ? or was it a correction, and it's now - having made one leg down and a correction, on its...
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