Archive for the ‘EA’ Category


The Big Boys

In giving a heartfelt recommendation to some of the companies from whom I have taken money in the past, I hope I’m not opening the door to closure of more accounts. But I think it worth the risk, as discussion of casinos, betting exchanges, brokers and other service providers has been under-represented in the Botfarm. [...]

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Xtremely Interesting

Despite having planned to write a post on the trading and gambling platforms, I got hijacked and pleasantly surprised by a new EA, which had all of the hallmarks of a spammy fly-by-night, but somehow got me to click through and try it.  Despite the excesses of the sales copy, it immediately distinguished itself by [...]

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Set and Forget

Back in the mists of Botfarm time I wrote a post entitled “Send in the Experts” which proposed a Botfarm ATM Index for rating the comparative merits of different markets and bots.  The ATM Index was never constructed, but the factors I proposed are still relevant.  The 6th of these was Intervention Level and has [...]

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Standing Start

My commentaries and suggestions about Virtual Private Servers (VPS) are distributed pretty widely throughout previous posts, and my advice has changed somewhat along the way.  For this reason I thought it would be useful to do an update and summary of my current recommendations for where to use a VPS and how to set it [...]

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Silver Lining

The political landscape in the UK may resemble a freshly ploughed field, but it’s an ill wind… The developers of WinPro and Winalot at Easy-EA.com always say that their Expert Advisors need to be tested over the long haul and for the past few weeks I’ve been gritting my teeth and taking this on trust [...]

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Near-Vana

This is somewhat akin to giving a small child a bazooka to play with, kind of exciting but pretty scary too. What you are seeing above is Foreign Exchange (2 currency pairs), Oil and Gas, Gold and Silver, and Index CFDs (on the FTSE 100 and Dow Jones) all available for simultaneous trading via MetaTrader4. [...]

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Sleeping Dogs…

Call from the grave yesterday, with a chap introducing himself as my new account manager at ODL Securities, wanting to know whether I was ready to start trading again. “Are you aware of my history with your firm?” I started, in the most menacing tone I could muster. He wasn’t – so I filled him [...]

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