Recent content by ben2k9

Trader333, The 1-2% is average gain per trade. Of course, these returns are in the equity market. The equity system is a daily period, average hold time just a few days. Nettecture - thanks for the suggestion. I did team up with someone for the backtesting...who knows, it could produce...

I've got a strategy that produces good results in the equity markets (high probability: 80-90% win rate) but the average profit is 1-2% per trade. I'll bet it could be gangbusters with the leverage of forex markets. I've been observing it recently in the forex markets and it looks like good...

I don't have any experience with other FX brokers, but I've been using Citigroup's new CitiFXpro platform, and they recently launched FDIC insurance coverage for cash balances. My understanding is that they're currently the only FX broker that has this. Citi itself has one of if not the...

I use a Bloomberg terminal for the Demark analysis...let me see if I can find a way to get the chart images and I'll post them here.

Demark indicators registered buy signals on a weekly time frame, a daily time frame, and also a 30 minute time frame. Looks like a perfect time to get long the EUR for possibly a long term big trade.

are the trades based on any technical analysis...or are you trading the news?

You get volume in the commodity futures market, except it's called OPEN INTEREST. Volume is secondary to price. it is used to reinforce the validity of the price movement, or to create skepticism where there is divergence. I would recommend the following books: -The Successful Investor _...

Hi there. Like your thread idea. I would take the opposite side of your AAPL/IBM pair trade...here's why. Fundamental: AAPL deals in the consumer side of the market, as you mentioned. The consumers are not it great shape at the moment, and getting worse each month with unemployment rising...

Hi - stumbled across this forum while researching Demark indicators. I'm impressed by the size and activity level of this forum...others I have come across are fairly dead. Looking forward to getting involved here!