Recent content by Rollieroger

finfx Has anybody successfully gotten finfx running great on a live account? I have noticed some complaints about working with live accounts. GO Markets just informed me that they no longer accept US Residents as clients. finfx, however, is an unregulated broker and apparently still will...

GO Markets I was checking out GO Markets and there was a huge discussion on Forex-Factory about some problems on the 15th of September (or so). Did any of you who are using GO Markets with a VPS have any issues with GO Markets? Just curious. Rollieroger

Now I am baffled I went back and checked and both IBFX accounts are on the 402 build and the same settings and last night one account had 4 trades for a small loss and the other had no trades. Same VPS, so what the ...:confused: I seem to recall that I may have gotten the MT4 load from...

I had changed the numorders_level to 2 and wound up at break even or some losses so went back to 0. Last night I wound up with 58 closed trades using the settings below and was up 8.8% overnight. On my other account (same broker and vps) I had 16 trades and 3+% increase. I think the settings...

Live I started testing live on August 5 using a mini-account (yes a mini-account) on IBFX and SWVPS. IBFX is in Salt Lake City and SWVPS I think started out in Texas but is now in LA. Anyway, I am not having fantastic success (as would be expected with a mini-account), but I am up 25% after...

Well now This is a fine how-do-you-do! What was he thinking? That 2,500 pips in losses doesn't just disappear because he says it does. They are still in my trades. What has me concerned now is that he has stopped opening trades from those two zulu providers. They have had some winning...

Yeah, I saw the race below the 200 ema (daily) and had to just shake my head.:unhappy: I am not despondent because I didn't close out my S&P put. I also found out that the limit order for another put in my investment account got filled (even though it didn't fill on the open yesterday). I am...

Weekly trend line I am closely watching the assault on the weekly trend line on the EURUSD. If that line is breached on a close, it may come back to touch but then is likely to be gone to the South. I will not be riding it all the way down. Rollieroger

Well, shucks. I took one look at my account P&L deficit this morning and placed another order for a put on the S&P500. Filled at the open and am now up ~8%. Gotta do something to offset this negativity. Maybe the market was overwhelmed by the Republican debate last night.:) I may even exit...

my thoughts I have looked at my trades compared to the master trades and my trades are typically about 1 pip better. So if you take 50 trades per month with .01 lots (.1 mini lots), your zulu trade cost would be 50*.1*1=$5 zulu commission and $5 for poorer fulfillment compared to $37 per...

Sizing Branman, I certainly agree that sizing of trades is a critical part of money management. I would caution you about shortening up your stop to 50 pips. If the stop at 500 pips allows you to get 10 pips a pop with 99% winners, then over 100 trades you get a profit of 99*10-500=490...

Trend line Here we approach the weekly trend line on a retest. This is the important one. If it fails, look out below. But, then you only know if it is a failure at the close of the week. There is a long time between now and Friday. My guess is that the trendline will hold. There seems...

Zulutrade For those of you not familiar with Zulutrade, the trades are made automatically in your account. It costs 1 pip per trade. So, depending on the size of your account, you can compare costs. I think it is apparent that you need to have a couple thousand dollars to trade this EA to...

EU direction While I anticipate that the direction of the EU is currently down, if it remains untampered with, it is possible for a QE3 (causing US stocks to rise) to be announced in a couple of weeks. Take a look at the weekly chart of the EU. You have a nice trend line that starts with...

S&P 500 down I bought a put on the S&P 500 yesterday because it appeared the upward movement was all end of month window dressing and it was approaching the 50ema as resistance and 50 ema < 100 ema. My put was up ~45% an hour or two ago. Sooooo, if the S&P 500 goes down some more, which I...