Tag Archives: dukascopy

An explanation of my Keltner Channel and Candlestick hybrid setup

By Paul | Published: April 9, 2010
This is an explanation of my automated trading strategy for the Dukascopy JForex Strategy Contest in April.  This strategy just made its first trade today after running for about 72 hours.  My contest demo account closed with a gain of 7% on this first trade.  Note that this strategy is built for competing in a [...]
Posted in Automated System | Also tagged candlestick, channel, contest, JForex, momentum, trend | Leave a comment

Reading the fine print for Dukascopy JForex Strategy Contest

By Paul | Published: April 7, 2010
The Dukascopy JForex Strategy Contest began last week.  Starting this month, Dukascopy offers $15,000 total of cash prizes to the top 10 automated trading systems every month.  However, before entering, there are a couple of clauses in their contest rules that caught my attention. Cash prizes are deposited into contestant’s Dukascopy account (Ranking and Awarding [...]
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In a forex brokers and trading platforms jumble

By Paul | Published: February 12, 2010
Once upon a time, I was a happy forex student.  I paper traded on Oanda for a few months and even opened a live account with them.  Then my work place tightened up our internet firewall at work.  I couldn’t access market data anymore during the day.  Fortunately, Dukascopy at the time said that they’ll [...]
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No micro-lot trading at Dukascopy Metatrader 4 accounts

By Paul | Published: February 7, 2010
Just received the following news from Dukascopy (attached below) regarding their Metatrader accounts. Basically, they are raising their minimum lot-size on MT4-enabled accounts to a mini-lot (10k). Micro-lot (1000 units) trading remains exclusive to their basic (JForex only) accounts. Well, why do bad news keep coming to me just when I’m about to go live [...]
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Why I am staying with Oanda a while longer before moving to Dukascopy

By Paul | Published: January 10, 2010
I just sent in my paper work to Oanda to open a live forex account with them last week.  Then I heard from @InEgoVeritas the news about Dukascopy (get 35% discount on commission with that link) reducing their minimum lot size to micro-lots.  After doing more research comparing Oanda and Dukascopy in the last 24 [...]
Posted in Forex | Also tagged broker, oanda | 3 Comments