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I'm not from the USA, but you're telling me that you use m = 1000? I use k =1000 like what the other poster said.

Thanks Andrew.

Yes, DST is troublesome. I do have the timezone offset hardcoded right now. I intended to manually change it and recompile when we go on/off DST. I'm still having trouble with the addition of profitable trades. I'm not sure how to write the next line of code to either store profits of each...

Thanks for the tips. I see the logic of getting the ticket ID. Does that work for multiple closed trades? I'm not sure how to store the values when there may be up to 30 trades per day and I need to add them all up without declaring 30 separate variables. Is it possible to store each...

I was wondering if there are people familiar with writing code in MQL4 that could help me out. I'm new to programming and I'm trying to write an EA that will have two parameters before trading. The first parameter is to define a day as 9am GMT to 9am GMT. This way I can define the day...

Hi, I was wondering if there are people familiar with writing code in MQL4 that could help me out. I'm new to programming and I'm trying to write an EA that will have two parameters before trading. The first parameter is to define a day as 9am GMT to 9am GMT. This way I can define the...

Sounds like it's time for this generation of Americans to understand the word "savings" and how to apply it to their lives.

I'm 29 now, started in US equities when I was 18 now trading spot FX with Oanda. Took me 10 years to be profitable as I held normal day jobs in between bouts of trading full time. Blew out my account about 5 times during those 10 years and had to work and save. Each blow out was about $5000...

Thanks for this.

I'm a believer that "you have to change the roots before you can change the fruits" or "the definition of insanity is doing the same thing but expecting different results." My question is have you found any techniques that worked for you to break your bad habits and was able to form lasting...

Tape reading to me is looking at the price and volume in relation to time. Time is a very important factor and can only really be 'felt' though experience of many hours of tape reading. For example, tape reading a possible reversal is when you see a lot of trades happening with heavy volume...

Blog of pics from Associated Press and other media. Funny as hell, but sad to see the pain. http://sadguysontradingfloors.tumblr.com/page/1

np. = ) Although most people who chose sat on hands are either: 1) not active day traders - because if you are active you would of executed at least one trade today, long or short 2) caught long and are marrying your position as an investment.

Did you make or lose money today, Monday, Sept. 29, 2008 when the $700B bailout package got voted down?

I live in Vancouver and I've been with Swift and Title, (and Bright). I would say that you might find it hard to get into Swift because they usually want a kid fresh out of Univ cuz they're a clean slate and they don't ask questions when they take 70% of your net as their cut. Title has a...

I started trading in 1997. In terms of losing what I've made though the dot com mania and Nasdaq 5000, I would estimate it to be in excess of $100k. I lost over $40k of my own capital before getting it.

I agree that your answers are too textbook. I would like to hear things like, I like to win, I hate to lose, I like to prove people wrong when they say it can't be done. If the firm is young and you sense the culture is one of excess, I would use humor and reference from Boiler Room and...

To the OP: I had Oanda take out a stop below the Metatrader low by 12 pips before. I wrote a strongly worded email complaining and they never replied. I had other instances when Oanda takes out a stop to the pip and then reverses that is about 3-5 pips from what Metatrader shows on the...

I come from an equities day trading background but moved over to FX and now trade retail thru Oanda. I can say that their live servers are solid. Over the past 2.5yrs, I only had one incident when the server was offline for around 5 mins. They do have occasional disconnects and...

I would expect that you have a multi monitor setup. I play games while having my trading platform up on my other screens. Currently, World of Warcraft is my game of choice.