Recent content by waxwing

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    Currency trading (Aug 7th > 11th)

    I would say in general they are close enough for TFs > 15min Metatrader will be significantly spikier (i.e. cover a wider range of prices) on short timescales. OANDA, as I understand it, batch ticks together and smooth their chart a little; I believe this is part of what allows them to offer...
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    Year End for Cable

    Not sure about cable, but I guess Euro at 1.10 (and continuing down from there). Reason: Resistance broken. Yield. Trend. By the way I thought I should mention that your "nearest first" rule may need a little work :)
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    Getting Started Beware of Situations that Look the Same

    As someone who is generally long Jung and short Freud, I can't help musing about the concept of synchronicity in all this.. Still, not sure I'd want to trade on those "hidden variables" either. I rated it 10 because, not wishing to be rude, but this is light years ahead of most of the other...
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    Opening a forex account

    I opened up a small account with OANDA several months back, and I looked at a number of other firms. Yes, these questions are standard across the application forms you'll see for all of them. Presumably regulatory requirements. OANDA will let you trade with very small account sizes if you want...
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    Gbp/eur

    The spread is 1.8 on OANDA.
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