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If you need API connection check Open API and FIX , both available with Spotware's cTrader. The second option is JForex API by Dukascopy. Also, FXCM API is quite a reasonable way to go for algo trading. All APIs mentioned above allows you to bypass the trading platform and connect to the...

Thanks. I do not need to hire anybody, I'm capable to create algo in C#/Python by myself. I've been demoing from last week my algorithm. It's early to make any conclusions and still a lot to do. The work in progress: https://fxmerge.com/strategies-results/405/oil-basket

Those firms we see throwing their hands everywhere, as you said, are rather casinos than serious prop firm businesses. I guess that sooner or later regulators will act.

Agree, spoofing is a big disadvantage for using DOM. It can be maybe filtered algorithmically, but I'm not sure if it is worth an effort for retail traders. NV is not a bad "investment", he is explaining a lot of things for trading newcomers. His whole trading concept is based on Volume...

For manual trading? Apart from the subjectivity (everybody likes different platforms), the platform one uses does not matter, any platform works well if you know what you are doing. After all, it's just an order placing vehicle with a charting ability.

(y) Covered calls, good for a bearish or sideways market.

Some broader context woul be fine. Where have you seen it?

Do candle stick patterns work better on daily charts than intraday? We live in the 21st century hence I'd rather ask whether candlestick patterns are still relevant on markets being effectively made by algorithms.

Anywhere

Price and Value are two completely different things.

There is no such thing as value in crypto world. Price of the coins is backed only by herd's hopes and believes.

<sarcasm> If you have pocket deep enough price always returns back to MA! </sarcasm>

Indeed, the mean reversion rocks! Return to the mean is a concept that fits my trading personality, but not in a way described in this thread. My trading concept is based on finding cointegrated assets (2, 3 or even more), calculate their spread, and zScore, hedge ratios and spread's half-life...

Even though I sort of agree with your opinion the thread's subject is not about courses but about "business" called prop firms in which so-called pro firms scout wannabe traders and operate rather like the Ponzi scheme. But yeah both businesses, course and prop, is overcrowded with a lot of...

Apologies, my English is quite limited so let me reference this article How Divergence In Correlated Assets Can Help You Add An Edge To Your Trading. The first part speaks about correlations, which is quite a known subject to everybody. However, the section How Can One Benefit From These...