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Rob, that would be excellent. It's going to be a new group and I just need to finalise some details, can I send you over some details in about a week, or would that be too late? I really appreciate your offering to help spread the word by the way :) Mart

Oh excellent. I'm going to try and make that, I may see you there? Could be a good place to maybe get a mention for a local group going too – if the guys doing the seminar don't mind. Thanks for letting me know :)

ahad22, Burnley, Sadly I've been really busy and not had time to arrange this yet, but it's still happening – just later than planned. I keep meeting people up north that either are quite into trading and making money, or mostly doing it as a bit of a hobby, and are interested in sharing...

John, thanks – I appreciate the help. It can be a challenge wrapping your head around what all this data means together :)

Can that itself not tell you something about the market, or are you saying it's entirely useless? I had assumed that the more frequent the price updates, the more participants there were changing those prices – so a measure of strength if there was an active trend or potential volatility in a...

Ah, got ya. So am I right in thinking that from 'price update volume' we can only really see how much activity is in the market, not much else? Many thanks for the correction and info.

So I've just been in a painfully long discussion with OANDA live support trying to establish what the volume data they provide means, and I'm still a little lost. Traditionally market volume would indicate how many buy/sell orders were flowing the market, right? But with MM and Forex that's...

Excellent. We're thinking of doing an initial meetup (just casual drinks and chat) somewhere in central Manchester in early/mid December. I'll post again when we have more details – thanks for showing your interest Phil :)

I'm looking for an ECN/STP broker that doesn't trade against clients and doesn't have a ridiculous commission. I came across Fair Trading Technology who offer an MT4 bridge to Dukascopy but you get charged commission twice (once from FTT and then from Dukas), but on the other hand you have...

Thanks Alex, really detailed answer – appreciate it. Out of interest, which ECN broker is it with the policy you mentioned?

I'm not familiar with the underlying protocol between the broker and MT4, but I was wondering what happens when you place an order with a stop using MT4. Does the order get placed with the broker, along with the stop order – meaning that the broker executes the stop order, or does the stop get...

Hey James, Are you aware of any others in the area that fancy joining in? We could probably start something with 3 or 4 people and go from there, but interest looks on the light-side at the moment :( Martin

Hi everyone. I've looked back through some of the meetup-related posts to see if something similar exists, but didn't see anything – but apologies if I this already exists... There are lots of trader meetups in the London area but nothing further north it seems. I'd like to know who would be...

Thanks guys, appreciate the advice. As mentioned, though, these sources can be useful if you're using them as a way to hear about events (rather than following their rumor or advice word for word). If you guys don't read either, where do you go for forex related news? For example, the MoF...

I'm learning all I can about the forex market but I've not decided whether it's worth subscribing to the WSJ or the FT in order to get news about large events that affect the movement of currency pairs. Has anyone else subscribed to either paper and found the content enhanced your ability to...