Recent content by parkofgrey

As a hobby I develop algorithms and run them against historical data. I'm a programmer by trade, and I sort of go in and out of this every few weeks or months. I really think my newest algorithm has some potential, and right as I was preparing to test it, I realized something. Everything in my...

So I am currently trading on a demo account with dukascopy, and I've been downloading piece by piece the price data I need for back testing my strategies. The only method I've yet discovered on dukascopy for getting their historical price data is this. Is there a place I can just download the...

Okay, so I currently am working about 70 hours a week, so I haven't yet gotten the opportunity to really dive into the forex market just yet. However, upon learning about the level of leverage you can get when trading currencies, I feel I should dedicate the next ten years of my life trying to...

Well for some reason I can't seem to edit my first post, so I'll reply to my own thread. When I said "If I go all in on a currency, I’ll have a margin of 50 pips before my brokerage account hits 0 and I lose everything." I was trying to outline my perception of how the system worked, and that...

Dude I totally agree. Like I said, even if it takes me ten years. I will not involve myself emotionally in the trading or the learning processes. I'll invest $500, see what happens, if it fails look at why and how the market evolved away from what I detected as being indicators of volatility in...

Dude the wife comment actually had me laughing out loud. See this is why I want to use an automated system. No emotion, only after the fact analysis of why something succeeded or failed. I think I would end up bobbing back and forth in a box on the streets if I let myself get emotionally...

Okay so my experience with trading of any kind on any market basically boils down to reading a single book. I literally only learned about the way you can leverage in forex markets but a few days ago, and I am losing sleep because of how excited I am over what I believe to be a tremendous...