Recent content by Marty Stevens

The first post listed ForexFactory as another website / resource. I find EliteTrader and FXGears Trading Community to be solid as well. FXGears even has a trader's chat.

You're lying to yourself. They are still just as bad.

I use a Standard account myself not sure what you mean by 'sb' firm, but they are an ASIC regulated broker they make their money from commission on a Razor account, or a pip mark up (STP) for their Standard accounts (no commission, with wider spreads to compensate the broker.) whole thing...

umm, no? Withdrawal to credit card is free, even if you didn't use that credit card to deposit. No bank fees on the CC side either. <-- this is huge, you can pay down your CC balance with your forex account at no cost to you Withdrawal to local Australian bank is also free. International...

EUR/USD ~0.4 pip average spread gets down to 0.1 using Pepperstone's Razor account: https://pepperstone.com/trading-accounts/accounts-razor.php

What's the point of 2000:1 leverage? Assuming a 1.5 pip spread, opening a position at full margin would instantly kill 30% of your account in spread costs alone. I don't know any professional trader who uses high leverage. The big firms use even less. Year in and year out, the big firms and...

This vid gives a good idea of the spreads for Pepper:

So have you made the loss back? What turned you around?

I've done 4 withdrawals now using the forum from their site: https://pepperstone.com/clients/withdrawal-form.php What the online forum does is pre-populate a document that's then emailed to the account holder's address on file. You're then asked to forward that email back to Pepperstone (a...

This. Or perhaps Oanda.

It's usually the human element that messes up good TA.. You need the human element to really define an edge with a technical setup, but it also is the biggest thing working against you.

Never give up... but if losses are hurting you financially, scale back til you get some consistency.

Most common would be MT4... but "best" entirely depends on what kind of trader you are. Personally, I like MultiCharts and NinjaTrader... but I will settle with MT4.

They also do local bank transfers now for like 40+ countries... making deposits even easier and without wire fees.

Dukas yes, but Armada no...