Recent content by Michael "Grimweird" Tan

Hey man. I don't live in S. Africa but I CAN tell you that getting Opteck to pay you is EXTREMELY difficult. I don't trust them at ALL. They are based in Israel and not the UK as advertised. I bet not one person who has spoken to you sounds even remotely British right? More like Russian or...

As I'm sure you know, I'm a newb, so what follows may well be nonsense. I just felt like throwing in my 2 cents though :P I don't really claim to know much about economic data and sort of / kind of don't really believe that traders should take them at face value. What I mean is, "news trading"...

Thanks man. Right now I'm gonna stick with this crappy job for a while and try to supplement my income by trading. So far my demo trading is earning about $3-4 a day on 0.01 nanolot trades. For me that's more or less okay I guess. So I might decide to up it to double that (a MASSIVE 0.02 lots...

Geez... That seems to be an awful lot of trouble. In any case, I figure I might start with your suggestion in a week or so... Wish me luck man :P

Umm... Actually, my idea was to trade about 15-30 mins after the news. Usually I won't be entirely sure how the market reacts to news, that's why I said I can't be sure which way the spike would go. Even with a SL in place a spike so sudden and violent will almost surely result in slippage and...

Sure thing. So, do you know anything more about "Another broker paying traders to try to post lame reviews"? Specifically have you heard about any cases where they refused to honour or needlessly delay withdrawals because of their no deposit bonus thing? I'm trying to make sure I don't get...

I'm not. As I said, I got burned, and burned real bad the last time I tried this. I'm gonna make sure I understand what I'm doing before giving it another crack man. Bringing a knife out to a gunfight was a REAL bad idea :P

Don't mention it dude... I vaguely remember the odds being something like 56% in favour of the broker. Meaning that you only had a 44% chance of actually being "in the money" as they call it. This all assumes that the broker is actually going to allow you to withdraw your "winnings". Take it...

Right... That's sort of what I thought. Okay, I know you don't wanna hear this right now, but you NEED to go into this thing with both eyes WIDE open. I may be new to trading, but I DO understand that I need to study it thoroughly first. I got burned to the tune of $1200 in 2 months because I...

GAH! I was afraid you'd say that. Those guys are in Mauritius. Which sort of makes sense. Grrr.... So I'll have to make mental somersaults every time I look at the chart's time! :(

Sorry again for spamming the board with all my questions, but this one is a rather irritating one for me... How on god's green earth do I change the time setting on the bottom of the MT4 chart window? My version seems to show the time in the Middle East / Mediterranean area. I'd like to...

Umm, sure. Can we talk about it here without using the broker's name? :)

Umm... I can't say that I have any real trading experience with them as of yet since I'm still studying Forex and experimenting with their demo account, but I think HotForex is an okay broker. I don't think they've had any major unresolved issues or complaints associated with them, if they have...

Err... I'm really new to this as well. What else do you know about trading besides what your friend told you about the Ichimoku Cloud if I may ask?

Yes, that's what I understood from their terms. So err... Sorry man, but I still gotta ask this... I CAN withdraw the full amount including the $8 bonus (should there be any of it left) AFTER I've traded the 2 lots right? I won't get any problems or withdrawal headaches later right? I would so...