Recent content by birdt

99% win rate should have set off the alarm bells. These guys aren't about making money for their clients, it's about generating statistics to suck in people for their fees, despite the inevitable blow-up that will occur before long. I saw an EA a while back boasting 3 years of profits with a...

Or you could tell them to f*** off. Who's got time for chatting to bolier-room scammers?

They only offer FX by the looks of it Phil. I downloaded the demo yesterday. Spreads look OK, comparable with MBT all told, but will have to take a closer look around news and fast markets and also in thin markets. Platform is fairly basic, but should be satisfactory for most. 10k lots...

Sounds like you've got a lot to lose pal. If your eyes are open to the risks and you're willing to put those on the line then give it all you've got. However, in my opinion trading is not something to be embarked upon when you've got a wife and kids who are depending on you bringing in a...

Check out the 'DXM FAQ' here: Erowid DXM Vault : DXM FAQ - The Experience .. in particular: Who's going to be the designated trip-sitter?

You'll get exactly what you pay for then. There's a regular 'free seminar' held by an organisation located nearby to me, I considered paying them a visit for the hell of it. When I got a courtesy call from them I suggested that it was merely a pitch for their products. The guy leveled with me...

A pin bar is a candle that has both its open and close within the top or lower third of the range, so it takes on the appearance of a 'pin' with a long shadow, and this spike is pointing in the direction of the current trend. Another way of looking at it is a hammer with the handle on the...

It does seem that way, but only because history filters all the crap out and just leaves the classics - no doubt there are incredibly insightful classics being scrawled by 21st Century trading prodigies as I type, but for every one of them we have to trawl through the 999 other books which...