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    Is forex a fcking scam or what?

    GS19: my experience with Oanda has to date been good their live customer service and email support have always answered my questions and resolved problems promptly and to my satisfaction trade execution has for every trade to date been instantaneous; rth spread on the eurusd is 0.9 pips...
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    Is forex a fcking scam or what?

    all fx brokers regulated in N America and 'Europe' are as reputable as any other company doing business, in fact more so considering the stringent regulations and requirements governing fx brokers particularly in N America complaints of whatever reason account for something like 0.001% of...
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    the Managed Futures mirage

    http://www.zulutrade.com and http://rentasignal.com/ are two of many ? alternates to 'managed funds'. not sure what these companies are known as - signal service ? they are agencies where individual traders are making some form of payment to obtain the trades info for manual entry or, trades...
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    Forex signal provider recommendations?

    http://www.dailyforex.com/signal_providers_review_list.aspx
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    eurusd - 6E - ($) lines - euro topped ???

    not sure if the price is going to run up to the 1.2460 area again or even 1.25 then early Tuesday decline down to the 1.2150/2130 area by the week end, which could be the makings of a w 1 ABC 2 with a 3 to come as you can see the consensus range is Large: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
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    May's market mayhem in FX settlements

    of the 14 Globex currencies the 6E alone accounted for 833,803 contracts traded but a drop in the bucket compared to the ES - 5,683,315 contracts were traded on May 6
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    How profitable is FOREX trading? (some beginner questions...)

    "less risky and less analytical than the stock markets" NO and NO "I like short term trading that can result in faster profits" + faster more frequent losses "how would you recommend a beginner to start investing ?" investing OR trading - the 2 are different...
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    the Managed Futures mirage

    "Investors need to be screened just as they screen managers" what are the screening criteria ? - details please
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    is trend following really profitable?

    i've never understood the term 'trend trading' but it seem to suggest such traders have no understanding of market dynamics which for me and many others is a comparitively simply matter for me a price movement in the same direction whether for a period of seconds or months is a trend...
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    help - recover files after OS re-install ?

    thanks adadadog the files weren't financially valuable but i found them and the backup folder i'd created before the crash they were in C:\Documents and Settings\ced\Desktop which would probably ? have loaded if i'd used the 'ced' name during the install
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    eurusd - 6E - ($) lines - euro topped ???

    can the rally continue to the 38.2 (1 of 3) around 1.2650 ? the price crossed the secs Daily median line on Fri and i don't see a reason why it shouldn't continue to the 38.2 and outer sec 3, however my time targeting does suggest this coming trading week is a change of trend week, so...
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    help - recover files after OS re-install ?

    had to re-install XP Pro but did so without formating the HD in C/Programs all the programs from the original install are still there and i've loaded a couple via their setup files, i'd like to be able to access some files that were on the previous/original desktop - is there any way to...
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    My Moving Average automated trend following system, why is it that bad?

    in 2007 the guy who won the MetaTrader auto trading championship - Better won with an Expert comprised of 3 independent subsystems + neural network $130,475.45 in 12 weeks: http://championship.mql4.com/2007/news/337 Interview with Olexandr Topchylo (Better)...
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    Oanda FXTrade problem

    Traxex, so far as i know Oanda is the only fx broker providing 24/365 trading they do not staff Customer Service/Support during the weekend - "We are here to help you 24 hours a day from Sun at 4pm EST to Fri at 4 p.m. EST" i'd have thought they'd have someone to kick the hampster's cage...
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    Neophyte Question

    TD ThinkorSwim min account margin is $3,500 regardless what you trade they require full daytrade margins - $5,000+ for the es and fx is a min of $500 AMP for instance has min of $2,000 for account and $500 for es
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    Hard Stops vs Mental Stops

    a Stop triggers a Market Order so there's no guarantee of a fill at the Stop price don't be in the market when a news announcement/report will be released when my isp went down i phoned my fx broker and closed the trade, no loss, the service came back up just after the closing the trade; a...
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    Neophyte Question

    there are numerous charting/order entry programs available as well as standalone charting programs requiring an external data feed that do not have order entry some brokers have their own programs and some provide 'white label' rebranded programs NinjaTrader is available from many brokers...
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    Recommend me a Forex Prop Firm

    sounds like a come-on to have you buy their training program some years ago FXCM asked for traders to trade client funds, however a 12mth ? trading record was required there's more opportunity for futures trading in many US cities but only see ads for stock prop traders google: vacancy...
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    Has this NIGHTMARE happened to anyone?

    it's not sufficient given the financial industry's level of regulation that charting/order entry authors can slip by with a 'the bug did it' so far as other programs are concerned, i had a demo 'bad fill' experience that was never explained...
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    eurusd - 6E - ($) lines - euro topped ???

    i've never found COT data to be useful to me, it's also delayed weekly data not surprising that Large Traders positions have been declining for the past 3 years however if one had used the LT COT data to have entered a short in mid 2007 when the Euro was 1.35, it would have been a losing...
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