Recent content by adriandecleir1

Im reading a great book called 'Day Trading the Currency Market' by Kathy Lien. It teaches you alot about FX in general, im only getting into fundamental analysis myself as a beginner so i dont know much. I want to learn it as much as I can though and use it side by side with price action...

ok i found another video directly related to my situation, now i finally get it, , more leverage means less deposit required. I dont think it matters at all if you're sticking to a 2% risk /trade

Hi, I know this is really really basic stuff, but im having trouble understanding one of the obvious first things you should learn when getting into trading and thats leverage. Please dont get me wrong, i have been studying charts for months, reading books about price action and money...

Limerick man here, just learning the ways at the moment trading demo account fx with alpari, im trying to just concentrate on price action for now. Bit of a pain knowing nobody interested in trading.

did you delete it Marcus? I thought I saw something up 12 hours ago.

Thanks for all the advice! muchly appreciated.

As someone just getting into it thats quite depressing!!! Especially the bit about pullbacks, cause thats part of a system im trying to test now. At the moment Im doing exactly this, literally going through the charts just looking for hammers(for example) and writing out in an excel sheet how...

Cheers im gonna check out ninja trader, as for the likes of T&S/level 2 etc, at the moment I really just want to know whether im even interested in learning that type of trading or not. If im being perfectly honest, i barely understand what it is. Im glad you pointed out the flaws of TWS...

Thanks for the reply Regarding stocks, honestly , any of them, for example , all the ones that have opened by default in the demo...US stocks - IBKR, AAPL,DELL,INTC, MSFT, YHOO, GOOG, EU stocks - GSK, AZN, RIO, BMW, MAN, SAP, ABBN . I am missing something obvious or stupid here (like you cant...

Hi, I was going to post this in the Interactive brokers thread in the brokerages forum but I think its more suited to here, cause i think it may be real rookie stuff. Just to let you know im very new to this stuff and have been putting all my effort into learning price action with Forex the past...

Would it be possible to backtest your system?

Hi Tantalos, as someone new myself, Id highly recommend going through the '4 steps', its alot of reading, it could take days , if not weeks, but I guess the theory behind it is, if you dont have the patience to go through that, you're not going to have the patience to learn trading full stop...

As a complete beginner, I am learning alot from this thread , cheers!!

Thanks for the replies, I think Im starting to see the difference from reading various articles. I put more effort into reading about charts and indicators than I did about actually betting, so i ended up lost not knowing the difference between brokers,spreadbetting, cfds etc. :o

Hi all, I would appreciate any help here, I know this kind of question is quite obvious but I looked in the FAQ and there was nothing really giving an answer. Doing searches didnt really help as the words Id be searching for are probably the most common words used on this site. Anyway I set up...