Recent content by Stochastix

Hi, I have spent some time (on and off) researching and developing a strategy for Gold trading using MT4 and MT5 with an Alpari UK demo account, which they allowed me to run for an unlimited time. As Alpari UK have now ceased trading I am left in limbo. Much of the research work on the strategy...

For anybody interested in learning about Machine Learning there is a free course from Stanford University on Coursera starting on 16th July. It is taught by Andrew Ng, one of the leading lights in ML and a good teacher. https://www.coursera.org/course/ml I took the course in 2012 and gained...

I have been trading on Alpari demo systems and I noticed the lack of hedging opportunity on MT5. On other systems, I have been able to hedge on the futures market but this is not available in the MT5 Alpari package, so this might sway me to use one of the MT4 packages. I found a good review...

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I am thinking about opening an Alpari account to trade spot gold. Does anybody have any experience or advice about Alpari. What type of account should I sign up for? I am tempted by the MT5 account as I started doing some programming in MQL5, and have had some success with the demo system...

I did a bit of live spot gold spread betting a few years ago and it seemed that the usual tick size was 0.01 (1 cent). I recently opened a Tradefair Plus demo account and was surprised to find that the tick size was 0.1 (10 cents). After a bit of googling, it seems that this 0.1 tick value is...

I have been trading forex on demo accounts for about a year and I am thinking of opening a live account. As I am economically innactive (ie unemployed but not signing on) I have no income. Would this disbar me from opening a live account with spread betting companies. Can I invent an income and...