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don't take this as an offence, but to me this is like saying: I want to program a drumcomputer and some synths producing a hit but I don't know anything about music and I haven't played in a band yet either ... that's going to be a hell of a thing to do, even though you probably heard a lot of...

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Like some have said here allready, being on the small side can be an advantage, if you know what to look for you can (sometimes) see size coming from a mile. You'll definitely need an extremely positive attitude/view on things and life in general to keep you going through the times when you...

No, this is not true, it's just you haven't learned how to trade (yet), therefore you have this illusion, maybe you will ever learn it, maybe you won't ... hard to tell, it took me years and I am considered on the bright side (but then again on the floor they say that is a disadvantage). It can...

OK, I take back my words, for some people this could have happened in a parallel universe ... that might explain a few things ... where is Steve Hawking when you need him ...

yeah that was a lightning fast reaction there ... it happened YESTERDAY :D who ever thought the media had a clue ...:confused: I'll answer this for the real slow amongst us ... NO THEY DON'T

:) all the best for 2011 !

IB has oco-orders, oanda works a bit differently; best way to get to know oanda would be to open a 'game'-version and try out some things. However wait a week to really judge the system in an honest way as the coming week will NOT be a reference period due to holidays. As soon as it's january...

you can't really trade below a certain minimum size with IB as it gets directed to another market segment (it's been quite a while but I believe it's 20000 minimum) where they have like 20 pips spread. Also there is a fixed minimal commission. So both of these things will kill you. Ib gets...

well, I have found more or less my own thing after a few years of screen trading ... BUT ... it's somehow more or less based on candlestick patterns: engulfings are important and learn to look how tops and bottoms set up (this alone will have you looking at charts for quite a while), get Trader...

I myself don't trade the news as such, althoug I might be in from 10 minutes before for example. But in a general sense I would agree with the original poster, if you are really going to be playing the news as such (which still seems a dumb idea to me, fundamentals hardly move the markets in...

the above remark is some kind of joke isn't it ? of course scalping can be done, I know quite a few people who do this day in day out profitably. I am not saying it's easy to learn, in fact it's incredibly hard ...

I would recommend ProRealTime basically because it's very reliable (again that's a 98% of the time thing :) ) and comes for a good price for some people it also has the advantage of quite some whistles and bells (which I honestly don't use). If you live on some outskirt place where there isn't...

Let me get more clear on what I am saying: for me it things were so evident, that I thought it would be the same for everyone else. Trading/scalping with FXCM would be totally out of the question for me. A spread of 1.9 compared to 0.8 (in normal times ! yes) would be a total disaster for me. I...

This is a real exageration: it's never 20, worst case is 10, even on weekends and like I have said like 10 times on ET allready, you got to use some common sense. You get something like forexfactory and you will know the exact times this is going to happen: 30 seconds before the big news ones...

I don't know about your first broker but having serious doubts cause there exist no miracles, but seeing your other names and comparing them to oanda things get rather simple: oanda has 0.8 pips spread in eur/usd during normal times; how much have the others for spread ? I'll leave the thinking...

I myself don't use any indicator whatsoever, I know a few people that use like one as an added help but even their basis is price action. I trade fx intraday only: I have 11 charts open constantly, but I see the same things happening on higher tf's, it's just too slow for me to really like/use...

Now that I think more into detail of this: even the people I know that use indicators use de facto a combo of price actoin and indicators. I couldn't trade if my life depended on it without at least six charts ...

you are making this really hard on yourself; indicator trading is one of the hardest things to learn imo, the ones that do it had help from others. Naked price action is my thing, but it takes tons of screentime and reading everything into context, so you'll need several charts up at the same...

One more detail though: I wouldn't use Oanda charts though, they are not the best out there and might differ slightly from better quote providers. I am using ProRealtime myself, cheap and good, although it comes with lots of whistles and bells that I don't use cause I trade naked price action ...