Broker Conspiracy Theories Are they True ~ forex trading get rich quick

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If people new to forex trading have anything in common it is the overwhelming belief in the broker conspiracy theories. Ask ten people on their road to become successful traders about what they think regarding forex brokers and they will tell you that the main reason (or one of the main reasons) why they cannot profit as much as they want is because their brokers "play with them" in such a way that trading profitably becomes impossible (or much harder at least). The reasons why there is such a widespread belief in the broker conspiracy are many but the real question to ask is, is this conspiracy real ? Do brokers willingly play with their customers and mess with their execution and accounts in such a way that profitability is removed ? On todays post I will talk about these issues, giving you my opinion about the broker conspiracy theory and the consequence this has on your trading.

You have just bought your first extremely profitable scalping system, simulations show great results (although they are unreliable for this type of systems), your demo account shows great results and you are ready to jump into a live account with your first forex broker. You open up the account, fund it, get your VPS and start to trade your EA only to notice that your demo and live accounts almost never agree and your demo account is taking almost twice as many positions as your live trading account. Upon checking your live account you see a lot of spread widening, re-quotes and slippage that makes you think : the rumors were true, my broker is messing up my execution.

To tell you the truth, I do not believe in broker conspiracy theories because it is not in the main interest of a broker to harm their customers performance due to the fact that they make money from the spreads and this means that the longer it takes for a customer to lose their account, the more money they make. Generally what people perceive as their broker "messing with them" is nothing but the harsh reality of trading in the real market. Sometimes if the broker is a "market maker" this may become a little bit shady since the broker may make some decisions to protect itself from quick positioning or scalping, which they do not like due to the fact that they cannot properly hedge their exposure when such small and fast positions are opened. Such decisions may include spread widening, re-quotes, etc.

I have had my fair deal of experience with people in the broker industry (well known brokers at least) reason why I can tell you that most of the things you hear about are nothing but myths. Brokers are not "evil market makers" making money when you lose money, that to me seems like a childish way of putting things such as the brokers are "the bad guys" and you become the poor good guy/gal who could only make it if he or she wasnt screwed as much by the big guys. The first thing you need to do here is to take responsibility for your profits and your losses. Forex brokers are not responsible for your opening and closing of positions and therefore the fact that you attempt to use systems that simply dont work under real market conditions is not their fault.

However I always believe that you should always work with the worst possible case available such that your trading and decisions are as robust as possible. If there is a broker conspiracy and brokers will relentlessly prosecute and make certain systems (like scalpers) totally nonviable then you should focus on trading a system that is shielded from the power your broker has over your trading. Certainly it would not be very intelligent to trade a given system that you know depends greatly on execution variables your broker controls. If brokers do seek to make traders lose, then why in the world would you want to make it easier for them ?

In the end, if you profit or if you dont depends entirely on the decisions you make. If you trade systems that are very vulnerable to your brokers bidding then you will fall prey to the problems of real market execution and - if existent - to your brokers endless hunger for new traders flesh. As I said before the key here is to take responsibility for your trading and find systems that will allow you to trade with the smallest degree of dependency on live execution variables. Systems that trade in the medium or long term which do not have small take profit and stop loss targets will make you "immune" to any conspiracy since your broker will not be able to control your trading through the manipulation of execution variables.

However it is interesting here to note that I have never heard a profitable trader complain about execution related problems as a "broker conspiracy" since experienced traders know that this is a characteristic of the real market and that being successful despite their existence is one of the jobs YOU have as a profitable trader. It is irrelevant if these problems are or arent caused by your broker, if they are there and you want to be profitable then make your trading style such that these problems will have a small effect on your account balance. If you are suffering because of execution issues you should know that your trading style is what gives them the room to harm your wallet.

If you would like to know more about automated trading system development and how you too can design likely profitable trading systems please consider buying my ebook on automated trading or joining Asirikuy to receive all ebook purchase benefits, weekly updates, check the live accounts I am running with several expert advisors and get in the road towards long term success in the forex market using automated trading systems. I hope you enjoyed the article !

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Too Good to Be True Why it is Never True ~ forex trading los angeles

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Yesterday while I was searching some forums and reading the comments of the posters I came across a conversation about the very traditional saying "if it is too good to be true, it probably is". As I read more I saw some very interesting aspects about the way in which the conversation was being carried out, specially the opinion of one of the debaters who was against the hypothesis claiming that is was nothing but mediocre and destructive to a person with an "achieving" personality. Today I want to write a post about my opinion about this "too good to be true" issue and how I feel it is a very valuable piece of common knowledge based on hundreds - or even thousands - of years of human experience. In particular I will discuss its relationship with automated trading and why it is extremely importance in this field
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First of all, we need to understand the nature of this timeless phrase. Why does it exactly mean and what is the power behind it ? What do people mean by "too good to be true" ? Generally this sentence speaks about the overall human experience in the sense that it reflects the expectations of the general public. When someone tells you that a certain endevour sounds "too good to be true" it means that you may be drastically underestimating the efforts or the actual real possibilities of doing what you are intending to do.

As a clear example, imagine that you lived in the 19th century and you told someone "I will be building a machine to fly in one week". They would tell you that it sounds too good to be true and the actual truth is that you would have found the endevour much more time consuming and difficult than what you originally thought. It is worth noting that the saying does not necessarily limit the possibilities of what can be done but generally the manner in which things can be carried out meaning that if something that was "too good to be true" could be done in that way, you wouldnt be the first person doing it and it wouldnt be too good to be true after all, because it would be true.

So how does this all apply to automated trading ? It applies in a very simple way. If it was possible and so simple to turn 500 USD into 1 million in 5 years, then it would have already been done and it wouldnt be considered too good to be true. However, since achieving this extremely high capital returns isnt something which is being done by the worlds top traders or trading organizations (or anybody else for that matter... if you have an example in automated trading I would absolutely love to hear it) then it simply falls within this category with very good reason.
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Is living from automated trading too good to be true ? The fact is that if you are thinking about placing a robot on a trading platform and letting it to work like an ATM for you then it certainly is too good to be true. Othewise dont you think that the thousands of people who have learned about automated trading would be living from it right now? The reality is that most of these people are actually not making any income from automate trading but they are losing money trying to achieve the situation which is just "too good". However - as I implied before - this does not mean that living from automated trading is impossible, it merely signals that the way most people are following is just wrong. Living from automated trading is possible but the truth is that it will require a LOT of study, a LOT of work and MUCH more capital that what you have been told and - not surprisingly - it is not something everybody can do; it is a long journey filled with frustration and hard work which - alike most non-luck based roads towards wealth- is simply not travelled by the vast majority of people.

In my mind, I dont think that the "too good to be true" saying is intended to be discouraging, mediocre or destructive - on the contrary - I think that it is meant to be protective as it certainly points out that the roads towards wealth exist but they are not short and they are not easily travelled. In the end there is nothing special about you or about me and if the easy ways to achieve massive riches in automated trading were really a reality, we would have both achieved that goal without any effort a long time ago (and therefore it wouldnt be too good to be true either !). In reality the best thing you can do for yourself is to find out what can be realistically achieved and put all your hard work into. Forex automated trading - as I have said several times - is not a gold mine for you to avoid work and sit on a beach to drink Margaritas all day. The journey is far harsher and demanding than your average 9 to 5 job, but so is the end much more rewarding.

If you would like to learn more about my perspective in automated trading and how you too can build systems with realistic profit and risk targets which use sound trading tactics to profit from the market please consider buying my ebook on automated trading or joining Asirikuy to receive all ebook purchase benefits, weekly updates, check the live accounts I am running with several expert advisors and get in the road towards long term success in the forex market using automated trading systems. I hope you enjoyed the article !

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Forex Expert Advisors Forex Wealth Robot an Unbiased Review ~ forex trading live chart

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It seems that new robots keep comming out everyday ! A few days ago someone left a message on the websites chat asking me to review a new forex trading system called Forex Wealth Robot. In order to honour this visitors request I will be writting about this trading system today. Within the next few paragraphs you will find my analysis of the evidence provided on the systems website. I will talk about the reliability of the evidence and if it can or cannot backup the authors claims about the systems profitability. I will then examine the evidence in detail and give you my opinion about the Forex Wealth Robots profitability and whether or not it is actually worth buying and testing. Is this expert advisor able to deliver consistent, huge profits in forex trading ? Can it live up to its work ? Is there actually proof to backup the authors claims ? Keep reading to find out !

The website starts with a very misleading statement, telling you that you could make more than 8K in one day in 2010 with "default settings" however no reference is ever made about initial trading capital or the risk taken to bank those 8K. It always upsets me that these EA sellers target new traders in such a blunt and bold faced manner without any ethics or honesty. The claim made of an 8K profit in one day simply makes no sense. Besides, the fact that there is no evidence that this trade was EVER taken in the real market points out that this trade was never placed and no one EVER banked those 8K.

The Forex Wealth Robot does not do any better after this, the rest of the website talks about an obviously false story about a guy who worked for a "huge bank" and "stole" their automated trading system only to make a metatrader EA and sell it. Yeah right. But well, I dont care about the story as long as the evidence provided is able to backup the sellers claims about the systems profitability.

However, when we look at the available evidence of profitability we find - sadly and not surprisingly - only backtesting results which dont have even full statements available. All we see are pieces of backtesting statementes which are portrayed as being results of live trades. This is absolutely dishonest as it is misleading people not familiar with the statements to believe that the system was traded live and made those profits when the reality is that those trades were NEVER taken on any live account. The messages on top of this hand-picked sections of the backtest are also cleverly placed to hide SL and TP values, reason why we cannot truly estimate the trading tactic or risk to reward ratio of the system.

Evenmore, the extent of the backtesting periods shown is not known and clear 10 year backtesting statements are simply NOT available. There is also a total absence of any live testing information so we cannot trust the validity of the backtesting results as live/back testing consistency results cannot be taken into account. In the end, this trading system seems to be a lot of hype and a complete absence of any real and reliable evidence. Due to the misleading picturing of information, the complete absence of full backtesting statements and - more importantly - due to the TOTAL absence of investor-access verified live trading results, this trading system is DEFINITELY NOT worth buying and testing. This guy who is a so called "proffesional" does not even trust his system enough to risk his own money, he doesnt show any real evidence of his supposed "success" with the system neither does he show his "beta-tester" results, which SHOULD be available according to the story. This truly is not only a display of an untested and very hyped system but a perfect example of dishonest and unethical behavior.

If you would like to learn more about automated trading and how you too can learn how to trade with a high like hood of long term profitability using automated trading systems please consider buying my ebook on automated trading or joining Asirikuy to receive all ebook purchase benefits, weekly updates, check the live accounts I am running with several expert advisors and get in the road towards long term success in the forex market using automated trading systems. I hope you enjoyed the article !

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The Ability To Make Money The True Reward of Forex Trading ~ forex trading login

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One of the biggest reasons why most forex traders fail to be profitable in the long term or the reason why most are unable to achieve their financial goals through trading is usually lack of capitalization. I have spoken several times about this issue and the fact that most - if not all new traders - seek to achieve financial independence with a usually very small account in the order of 5-10K or even less. The truth is certainly that this is not possible in a sustained manner over a long period of time.

Even if your needs were as low as 1K, producing 10% in average every month is most likely impossible as the self-limiting character of inefficiencies in the market would prevent this achievement for a very long time. As a matter of fact, there are no examples - to the best of my knowledge - of people who have achieved this degree of proficiency for at least 5 years with most people who speak about this profit levels being "sustainable" achieving them in small periods of time. It therefore remains true that such targets are unachievable under statistically significant periods of time (5-10 years) (if you have real evidence of an example of someone who has achieved this please do let me know !).
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Why do the best fund managers and traders in the world earn so much money if their returns - to the beginning forex trader at least - seem so humble ? The truth is actually that making money in the market (and keeping it !) is extremely difficult and achieving proficiency that allows survival under many different market conditions is very difficult. The ability to stand through deep and extended draw down periods and the ability to have confidence in ones strategy is a vital part of achieving this hard endeavor.

This is why when you are able to achieve profitability during a statistically relevant period you can say that you have acquired one of the rarest abilities in todays modern financial world : The ability to make money. You have indeed succeeded in the use of trading strategies to exploit market inefficiencies in a sustainable fashion, something which is terribly difficult to do and absolutely valuable. Even if you did so only with a 1000 USD account, the fact that you now master this skill makes your income potential effectively limitless.

After taking this step at mastering the ability to make money it is now time to make forex trading a real business for you. If you really want to make money trading, then you cannot limit yourself to the trading of your own capital, you need to start managing other peoples funds in order to increase your income potential to levels which fit your life style. With a five year verified track record there will be many people fighting for you to manage their funds and I can assure you that you will not have problems finding people willing to get the diversification and "higher than stocks" average yearly return you will be offering.

In the end you need to focus on developing your ability to make money and you need to think about trading as a business to sell this ability. Do not limit yourself to your own capital. If you truly have the skills to make money then there should be no fear in sharing this ability with others. You will explain them all the risk and your track record would also show the ups and downs of a 5 year trading period. In the end your ability will shine on its own and even if you can "only" make a 15% average yearly return, you will have literally millions of dollars lined up for your management.

Tomorrow I will write a post about the technical and regulatory aspects concerning money management in forex so that those of you interested in this path will have a better idea of how to follow it. If you would like to know more about my journey in automated trading and how you too can code systems geared at achieving long term profitability please consider buying my ebook on automated trading or joining Asirikuy to receive all ebook purchase benefits, weekly updates, check the live accounts I am running with several expert advisors and get in the road towards long term success in the forex market using automated trading systems. I hope you enjoyed the article !

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Watukushay No 5 The Aussie and the Kiwi More Encouraging Results ~ forex trading guide for beginners pdf

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During this weekend I released the first official version of Watukushay No.5 coupled with all its 10 year backtesting data showing profitable results on 6 different currency pairs in Asirikuy. From my last post about this EA you might remember that Watukushay No.5 had been tested on the EUR/USD, GBP/USD, USD/JPY and USD/CHF, however at that time I hadnt completed my analysis on two other currency pairs that also show us great results with this strategy despite their overall lack of liquidity, the AUD/USD and the NZD/USD. On todays post I want to share with you some of the results of the EA on these currency pairs and how the EA is able to use a completely different trading technique to profit from the different trading mechanics of these two instruments.

As you may already know, Watukushay No.5 attempts to exploit breakout inefficiencies on the different currency pairs. On the 4 majors this is done by exploiting periods of low volatility when the currency pairs form significant ranges, entering breakouts when important moves develop within the following trading sessions. However, these trading tactics do not work well on the AUD/USD and NZD/USD, not only because they tend not to form areas of compact trading but due to the fact that this areas do not lead to successful or unsuccessful breakouts with any statistical significance. In the end if you try the same tactics as with the majors you will obtain slightly profitable results which are definitely not worth using in live trading.

Upon my analysis of these two instruments it became clear that I needed to think the problem from another perspective if I was going to find any profitable results for this EA on these two pairs. This meant going back to a meticulous analysis of the currency pairs and the way in which the medium and long term trends develop within them. After spending a few days working on this I finally realized that the key was to rely on breakouts of more volatile sessions but aiming at much higher take profit and stop loss targets. The idea was that this large breakouts do allow us to predict long term trend direction with a good statistical edge in the long term.

Backtesting results were indeed very encouraging showing me that my analysis had been right. When you exploit this different and larger breakouts on the AUD/USD and the NZD/USD, you obtain some very profitable results which are achieved as the EA is able to follow long term trends through the periodical entering of this large session breakouts. The effect resembles the accumulation technique used by the turtle trading system, allowing us to follow a trend and greatly profit from its long term direction. Below you can see a picture of how this trading works on the NZD/USD, notice how the EA got a lot of profit from a developing trend.
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The 10 year backtesting results also give us great results for both of these currency pairs. We arrive at results which have average compounded yearly profit to maximum draw down targets better than Watukushay FE and the same as Teyacanani on the EUR/USD in the case of the NZD/USD. Surprisingly, the best trading results for this EA have been found on the NZD/USD, showing us the robustness of this strategy as a portfolio solution. The EA shows us its robustness and its ability to exploit two completely different market inefficiencies based on the same trading mechanics but aiming for entirely different things.
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Later today 3 live accounts with real money will be added to Asirikuy to start the testing of the system on the USD/CHF, NZD/USD and a full portfolio setup. Hopefully within the next year we will be able to gather some very useful information about its trading system, its tactics and its ability to tackle changing market conditions. The ability of this EA to adapt to each particular market situation and its very large set of adaptive parameters will probably lead it to succeed in this quest against market changes.

If you would like to learn more about automated trading and how you too can develop your own likely long term profitable systems please consider buying my ebook on automated trading or joining Asirikuy to receive all ebook purchase benefits, weekly updates, check the live accounts I am running with several expert advisors and get in the road towards long term success in the forex market using automated trading systems. I hope you enjoyed the article !

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