Recent content by RandomOne

I query every second using a windows timer event, but I could use the same process to query at a much higher rate. I would expect 10ms should work provided that you don't have any single method/function that blocks the message processing loop for any substantial period. If you look at the data...

Using a strategy which does not produce long-term profits, or to be more precise, does not produce enough to cover spread, slippage and interest.

Are these the Soros viewpoints?, if so it is no great revelation as it seems to basically say that what you do affects the market and that in turn can effect how you behave. This is the well known concept of feedback.

I use the older MFC classes CInternetSession / CHttpConnection and ReadString method as I am more familiar with them, but I suspect they wrap the same API calls as the more up to date .NET framework (maybe I will get around to learning more about it one day). Technically I would not describe...

Good points and observations, I also have noticed from the correlation with non-farm payroll that news events for my crude strategy is overall bad, but on back-test it is hard to program in all the events to avoid them. I dream of 75%+ hit rate, one day I will get there.

Howard, thanks for the info, I will check that out. Pboyles, the average profit per trade is 7 pips including the loss making ones. The profitable trades make more than the losses on average so that overall there is a profit. I have tried to cut down the losses, but every time it reduces the...

I have been investigating forex trading for almost a year now and have at last devised a strategy that seems to consistently produce a profit during back-testing so that only one of the last 8 years would have seen a loss. It is a simple trending strategy based on a combination of technical...

Been running since 21/12/2010 and TrueFX seems reliable so far with no more gaps than say the data from Gain. Thanks for all replies.

I have been trying to ascertain exactly how spread betting brokers generate income in addition to the advertised spread and over-night interest so that I can assess the likelihood of making a profit in reality and avoid excessive direct/hidden charges that some may have. There appear to be many...

Update: I have now done the analysis for a simple moving average crossing strategy and if anything it makes the results worse as it amplifies both the winnings and losses. Fundamentally the problem seems to be that increasing the stake after some profit results in larger losses when the price...

China does make USA seem like a paragon of virtue, but it also has its own problems. First is that it appears to be a collection of states to some extent run by an ethnic group(s). Inside that group the real power is in the hands of the communist party and those they favour. All this potential...

My problem with all this macro economic stuff is that is exactly how we got into this mess in the first place. After the market regulators had allowed the dotcom bubble to build up around 2000, the subsequent inevitable crash was averted by floating the world economies on a tide of borrowing...

Good points, US will have to come to terms with no longer being the single most powerful country in the same way that UK has had too after the second world war when ironically the US helped force the dismantling of the British Empire in order to free markets and resoruces for themselves.

I suspect that the issue is that there are several different processes going on at the same time and although the UK economy is still weak, the question is whether it is still a better bet than the US economy. Also the economy may be weak, but the view may be that increasing interest rates would...

If you are genuine and not someone connected to the company pretending (wouldn't be the first time), then good luck to you. However, there have been countless schemes over the years and in the end they all ended badly for everyone except those controlling them. They follow the same pattern...