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Activ Averaging Allegedly Protects Your Stops

Jim — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 19:41:04 +0000

I've had a live account with London based broker ActivTrades for quite a while now. It's one of their "Standard" MetaTrader 4 accounts. I opened it because it offers micro-lots and lots of exotic currency crosses, along with a wide range of non-forex instruments, including stock indices, gold, oil and other commodities too. That combination is a little hard to come by at other brokers. It is slightly old fashioned however, in that it still uses 4 decimal places and fixed spreads. 2 on the FTSE 100 and 3 on GBP/USD for example, most of the time at least.

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Forex MegaDroid Live Test Results for August 2009

Jim — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 11:08:58 +0000

In our previous live test results for June and July the Forex MegaDroid MetaTrader 4 expert advisor did at least manage to make a profit. Sadly the "robot" seems to have lost it's way over the summer holiday season. In our live account at Alpari UK it lost money. In percentage terms it lost a lot of money!

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FIFO Fiasco Status Report – Who Said What When?

Jim — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:54:34 +0000

At long last August 2nd has been and gone, and the dust has settled slightly. We'll cover what still works and what doesn't in a forthcoming post, but for today we're going to concentrate on who said what, and when. We'll do that by working our way down the list of retail forex brokers included in the CFTC report on the financial strength of Futures Commission Merchants. For some reason it seems the better capitalised a broker is the less it has to say about the FIFO fiasco!

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The Forex MegaDroid Forward Testing Fantasia – Variation 1

Jim — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:03:39 +0000

As our regular readers will know we've been having a few problems getting consistent results from our Forex MegaDroid backtests. We've also had a major problem with our forward tests. The robot hasn't traded for weeks! However last night the Droid leapt back into action with avengeance! Please bear with us while we explain what our various virtual private servers discovered for us while we slept.

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The Forex MegaDroid Backtesting Blues – Track 3

Jim — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 13:15:16 +0000

An essential part of evaluating any trading system, whether you developed it yourself or bought it over the internet, is to discover how robust your chosen system is to changes in the system input parameters. Unfortunately the developers of Forex MegaDroid don't give their users the ability to alter the parameters that control their robot's "artificial intelligence". We assume there must be a few hidden somewhere inside the Droid's electronic brain, but there is no way for us to twiddle them with our virtual screwdriver. We assume that Albert and John spent many months tuning their creation to perfection. They have, however, made it very difficult for us to try and work out if they have over-optimised their robot's mega-mind. Maybe it will suffer a virtual epileptic fit one day soon? We have no way of knowing.

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The Forex MegaDroid Backtesting Blues – Track 2

Jim — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 11:39:04 +0000

After a lot of experimentation we finally managed to work out how duplicate the first trade in 2009 shown on the Forex MegaDroid website. Not only that, but using a demo account from FXDD that supplies historical data with only 4 decimal places, and working out exactly the right values for the Risk Level and GMT Offset input settings allowed us to duplicate the first 75 trades, up to and including the loss of $4672.00 on March 18th. After that though, the differences between our backtest results and those shown by the Forex MegaDroid team become more and more obvious.

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Forex.com Promote Hedging in the UK

Jim — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:28:13 +0000

I received an email this morning from Forex.com promoting the benefits of opening a MetaTrader account with their FSA regulated UK operation. The headline read:

Total control of your trading strategies. – Don't let hedging restrictions affect how you trade your account.

When I clicked on it I didn't receive lots more information about how hedging restrictions might affect my trading. Instead I found myself looking at an online application to open an account at Forex.com UK

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FXDD Say No Hedging Doom and Gloom Highly Exaggerated

Jim — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:22:17 +0000

As we reported back in May, FXDD still allow "hedging" on their MetaTrader 4 accounts. Presumably they feel able to do this because their application to become a member of the NFA is still pending. The announcement that we linked to in our May article was removed from their website some time ago, but yesterday a new take on the NFA hedging ban appeared in its place:

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The Forex MegaDroid Backtesting Blues – Track 1

Jim — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:04:14 +0000

It's now three month's since "Forex MegaDroid landed on the Forex industry like a BOMB". The time has come to try and tie together all the backtesting, forward testing and live testing, and to decide whether to keep the Droid running on our virtual private server for a while longer. Unfortunately this is not an easy task!

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Forex MegaDroid Live Test Results for June 2009

Jim — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 11:38:28 +0000

Here are our first set of Forex MegaDroid live test results, which cover the month of June 2009. Here at the Trading Gurus we recommend forward testing any new forex trading system on a demo account for at least three months before even thinking of trying it using real money on a live account. However our loyal readers have been asking to see some live results. After 2 months testing on a demo account with no major disasters for the MegaDroid we decided to start live testing using a modest initial deposit of $500. On an account that supports micro-lots this is sufficiently large to allow the Droid's money management system to start trading with more than the bare minimum position size. It is also a reasonable sum of money for someone new to forex trading to be prepared to lose. As you have hopefully realised by now, newcomers to forex trading do have an unfortunate tendency to lose money.

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