You are a a wannabe Forex trader or just starting your trading “career”, and one of the parameters your are considering is Swap. There is a reason why I’m not including professional traders in here. They already know that based on your trading style, whether you will keep your orders open for long periods, or short ones, swap can have from no effect to a huge one on your earnings. Well, you have a strategy, which might range
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FOREX Strategy Testing backtest how to
You have sweated all those days, months or years for the creation of your strategy and now it is time for FOREX Strategy Testing backtest. The strategy is nothing more of entry and exit rules, that will give you, the trader, some advantage on other players. The strategy and how you implement or stick to it, will differentiate you from the crowd of losers. The strategy can take you to to heaven or hell. There are several ways to
Sharpe Ratio in FOREX investments, give me a meaningful KPI
I have a live account which is going up, but my Sharpe Ratio in FOREX is really low. I have studied a lot of investment options and liked FOREX most of all. It is a many trillion dollars market, per day, which makes it ideal for those who want a fast way in and out but still the Sharpe Ratio in FOREX is leaving me speechless. Unlike stocks it has a very low entrance point, it is really easy
Live FOREX December 6th 2016 – Status update
Welcome back for the latest update on my Live FOREX account for December 6th 2016 Just a few facts from the last update on November 30th 2016 and the changes happening: Total profit from 1642.44 to 1812.56 (a difference of plus 170.12 USD) Total sum of pips from 10530.8 to 11357 (a difference of plus 826.2 pips) Total orders closed from 586 to 662 (a difference of plus 76 orders) These days I have gone through the posts myself as well got
Live FOREX November 22nd 2016 – Status update
Live FOREX is intriguing and everyone likes to show of a little when things go well. This is not the case here. Don’t get me wrong, things are going fine and as expected. We are getting results in line with the backtests (more than 4 years of data). Here we are to provide an update as of November 22nd 2016. If you can recall from my previous post, the account started in October and it is running in
FOREX to the People
Gone are the days when institutional FOREX was a closed club It’s all around on internet, get rich fast, or at least try to. I’ve been reading about FOREX since 2009, which is considered late for any professional trader. Well it is not so any more. Forex is by far the largest financial market in this planet. There are billions of dollars (USD), euros (EUR), pounds (GBP), yen (JPY) and all other currencies being exchanged everyday and with the