Clean financial market data for back-testing Through our various trading platforms and data feeds we have accumulated a reasonable history of finanical market data over the years. What we have now done is to clean it up (where possible it’s from a single reliable and tradeable source), and convert it […]
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FXStrategies is a great little web-site that I’ve just recently come across through my association with the trader behind it, Frank Walbaum. Originally from Germany, Frank now lives and trades from his adopted home in Singapore. I got to know Frank at a recent FX conference where we were both […]
This is the one in a series of Metatrader 101 posts, partly so that I can have something to give to clients who are new to Mt4. It will cover the basics so people can get up and running quickly. In Metatrader you only have a limited choice of charts: […]
The Naked Forex Now forum is a great forum that has been set up by Walter Peters, author of the book “Naked Forex – High Probability Techniques for Trading Without Indicators”. His background is in psychology but he got bitten by the forex bug and has spent many years researching […]
I thought that I’d just take the time to post some thoughts on the whole EU referendum situation as it’s really a huge deal here in the UK. Half the country is mortified at what we’ve voted to do and it feels like a very divided nation at present. Personally […]
There’s one aspect to choosing a broker that often gets overlooked which is safety of funds. Sadly, when you place your money with a broker your money is at risk from the broker going bust. Now, you may think that this a very remote possibility and of course it is […]
LMAX are a UK-based ECN broker that I have used and at the time of writing still do use. I first came across them via some promotional material and was blown away by how tight their spreads seemed to be. Up until now most of the retails brokers that I’d […]
This is the one in a series of Metatrader 101 posts, partly so that I can have something to give to clients who are new to Mt4. It will cover the basics so people can get up and running quickly. One of the great things about Metatrader is the amazing […]
This is the first in a series of Metatrader 101 posts, partly so that I can have something to give to clients who are new to Mt4. It will cover the basics so people can get up and running quickly. An EA (Expert Advisor) is an automate trading strategy that […]
I thought that I’d write about something known as the “Gambler’s Fallacy” as it’s something that crops up in trading (particularly FX trading) from time to time. The basic idea is that you can make money by betting cleverly and that somehow through doing this you can turn something that […]