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A good all round forex broker is PFGBest who works really good with Ninjatrader but there are other good ones like Dukascopy who is really cheap and stable or maybe even Oanda. You can get a demo account for free over there. Make sure you pick an ECN broker, that means he will put your orders on the market instead of trading against you.

My futures account is now setup. I’m with Ironbeam via Optimus Futures and am using CQG data. mattz, Jake, and Marilyn at Optimus have been very helpful and I’ve been extremely happy with the level of service that I’ve received. I’ve posted a review of them here. I spent Friday and the weekend getting my charts set up. All charts display the Mini contract but are setup to execute through the Micro. I’ll be spending a little bit of time in sim getting comfortable with my new setup....

Im somewhat of fan of Dr. Elder and had gotten inspiration for this method from " triple screen trading system " from " Trading for a living" by Dr. Elder . The basic premise behind the method in the book is to sneak into the weekly trend with a trailing buy/sell stop on the daily according to what the oscillators have to say . I cant say Im in love with oscillators or any indicators but do have trust in MACD and have used it in place of MAs if I am in need of such a tool . My version is...

Before I say a word, we need a demo account. I strongly recommend opening Oanda Fx Practice. Market index RBS uses the same platform as Oanda, you can go with that one too. You can use any of the demo accounts - I do not care, but the fxTrade platform let's you instantly see how much money you will lose or gain at certain stop loss sizes. It let's you move SL and TP right on chart (pretty good for a free platform). It's more user-friendly. If you don't know what TP and SL are, don't worry, I...