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One of the most important things new traders learn is how to deal with the many emotions of trading, and how they will perform in the heat of battle. In addition, creating and testing your very own trading method or system is a process that can take a long time. Only trading a live money account...

GUI automation.

All my orders are entered at market by an automated trading system. My ATS simply records the current price at the time the trade was placed, and I assume that any deviation is "slippage". Of course some (or all?) of the slippage I get is because of internet lag (the price moves before I get...

I just saw this on moneytec - feedback on another ECN style broker - doesn't look so good at coesfx:

Thanks for your reply late apex. I'm curious how long you've been with Oanda and what type of strategy you use? Do you enter with limits or market orders and do you trade during volatile times. The reason I ask is that I would love to have zero slippage too so maybe you've found a way to...

Ok we are mixing terms. I didn't notice you were talking about individual price shading, and not overall net position price shading, which that thread talks about. I agree that Oanda doesn't do individual price shading, but does net position price shading. Also, Oanda does do individualized...

late_apex: Oanda shades against its net customer positions typically from 1.5 pips to zero pips. Compare its data feed with that of IdealPro or another interbank feed and you will detect times when the price is stable and the bid on one equals the ask on another. All these forex shops do some...

Apparently CMC also went down: http://www.moneytec.com/forums/showthread.php?t=18335

I don't believe in coincidence.

Lots of problems that happened right at 8:30 when NFP was released on Oanda. It wasn't freely quoting until 8:45 AM, and order entry was hit and miss - sometimes stuck, sometimes kicking out an error (server rejected). I had to log in no less than 4 times this morning. What could have been a...

Isn't there a "disregard ping from WAN" setting that you can toggle?

Farside gave me a PM saying he got it working after reading my prior post. For the benefit of any other prospective or current hawking dual WAN router owners here is a recap of what I have learned about the hawking dual WAN router: I think for about $50 this is a good router but it does have...

Hi Farside. I just read the review on epinions on the hawking dual wan router. I think this is it so I will paste it below so others here can see the criticisms: http://www.epinions.com/content_158196272772 First I think the review may be out of date. The firmware version mentioned in the...

Hawking H2BR4 Dual WAN Router Rather than start a new thread on Hawking routers I thought I would just add these workarounds to this thread where I have already posted on the subject. I first noticed a problem when WAN1 went down and the router did not automatically reconnect to WAN2. The...

I'm pretty sure it is % of "Balance". In that respect it works for the slight martingale that was originally envisioned.

I just got that bulletin 10:30 Eastern reopen on EUR preopen at 10:15 EST.

EUR still down here.

If the losses are due to psychology this might help to at least temporarily snap you out of a bad mind funk and help see things more clearly, gain some perspective. However over the long run if you don't address the core issues, your mind will revert to playing the same games on you, just in...

I've been thinking about this some more and ran into a thread that had some good insights from acrary here: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=159224 Essentially the crux is that a system that trades based on a % of account equity for position sizes or for money...

Here is something I've been puzzling over, that hopefully someone here will be able to help me with. I'm demoing a 5% position size on 6 different currency pairs. I thought using a fixed % on each currency pair would keep the position sizes in relative parity with each other for hedging and...