Quote from hermit_trader:
I tried paper trade Forex last year. My own feeling is this market is particular noisy and hard to trade. The short-term charts(1-5 minutes) are always very choppy. If you trade by using long-term charts(15min or 60 min), you need to put a wide stop and this could be very risky. There are many spikes in the charts that could easily hit your stop and then go for the original direction.
Completely agreed, I'd much rather position or spread trade off of a free, delayed 60min chart (say from futuresource.com) than to try to scalp for 5 ticks using a 1min real-time chart.
