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yes, fully agree, I expect this to be added to but traders who currently use nothing at all but a hope and a prayer can start seeing early on that their system isn't working and so start making amendments instead of drifting on for months getting nowhere. Custom date and adding pics would make that process easier to do.

Found a PC to go with the new monitor; https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2019/12/10/21003636/apple-mac-pro-price-most-expensive-processor-ram-gpu

The ASX operates on Sydney time and pre-market opens at 7am while trading opens at 10am but IG opens for trading at 9:50 though with a higher than normal spread. IG also allows for trading after ASX close at 4pm right through to 8am but again with a higher spread.

Thanks, above is an example (lifted off the net) of the mt4 trade analytics you get with the mt4 platform so IG still have some way to go but most importantly the basics are there for quick strategy testing. Any strategy needs to be tested over a number of trades (20 - 50) before it can give back data as to if it's going to be viable or not. The IG stats give just enough to be able to VERIFY a strategy, just having a set strategy is not enough, it needs to be tested before risking too much money.

Hi, yes I used PRT years ago but prefer the mt4 platform though I think PRT have upgraded their analytics section since.

Dow ended being a pause day yesterday, tried to go down but was just bought straight back up again, same story. Dax followed. Ftse election uncertainty as Labour close the gap in the polls. And similar uncertainty for China. An interesting development yesterday as China tried to do a 'Trump' and take control of the narrative by releasing news the Dec tariff increases had been postponed only for the US to issue a denial several hours later 🥳

Overnight Indices up, Bonds, Gold and Oil down, Crypto mixed, USD flat. Today US CPI at 1:30pm and FOMC rate decision, mon pol statement at 7pm and presser at 7:30.

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As I trade on the MT4 platform (which has it's own analytics) I don't have any trades to analyse on the IG platform so nothing comes up at all not even a blank data set. Could anyone post a pic showing what analytics IG offer, blacking out any personal data, to start a discussion on the best use of what is available from IG, how it could best be used and possibly improved in the future. Thanks.

oh ok, so let's see if I've got this right, you can be called for trial on nothing more substantial than biased gossip and guilt or innocence shall be determined not by any evidence but solely on acting skills. God help the defendant when you get called up for jury duty 😅

all the witnesses's the impeachment hearings have found so far was 2 diplomats (Dems) who said they overheard some stuff might be true and another guy who thought up some stuff that could be true 🤔

considering he's been under constant inquiry since before he even took office you would think they should have come up with something by now.

Difficult to know the future though isn't it, there are people here who back in early 2016 proudly crowed that they had cashed in all their equities and were going to make a mint shorting the imminent market crash, and they're still shorting, ... any day now just you wait.

Hi, go to settings in your 'My IG' page and then to Dealing US stock, see pic below.

Dow just backing away from the highs yesterday. No real drivers til FOMC tomorrow so could be slow today. Could be news today on the impeachment process with the Democrat controlled Lower house voting to move ahead with proceedings in a partisan vote in spite of there being no actual admissible evidence against Trump. When this is past onto the Upper house for trial where the Dems do not have a majority it is most likely to all fall apart.

https://www.teletrader.com/economic-calendar?ts=1560405895986

Overnight Indices up, Bonds, Oil and Gold up, USD and Crypto down. UK GDP data at 9:30. The high vol event today is the Ger econ sentiment (survey of expectations by institutional investors) at 10am and here is listed as expected at 0.0 though other sites list plus 1.1 which would be only the second positive since March 2018.

Useful short vid looking at some special features available on mt4. Plus a closer look at the apps package; https://www.thinkmarkets.com/uk/tools/mt4-super/mt4-super-apps/

more bad polls for Labour so Corbyn supporters are out in force;

So the recent US indices dip was yet another buying opportunity and of course the permabears diving in short once again only to be flushed in short order for about the thousandth time since 2012. It seems they don't care being wrong all the time for years on end so long as they might be right once some time in the future. This of course is not trading but has more to do with Je-sus complex prophesying and most definitely needs an income stream outside of trading to support it. The only people who do profit from it are the professional peddlers of doom and gloom and there are many, but why are so many so susceptible to fake messaging? In the link below are several short vids on how the media manipulates the news and so dictates what people think both in regards to the markets and in general. https://tacticalinvestor.com/permabear-it-takes-a-special-kind-of-stupid-to-be-one/

Don't try to fight central banks.

Overnight the US Indices just pausing back up near the all time highs, Oil broke though near term resistance on Friday while Gold hang close to key support. Not much on the calendar today, FOMC rate decision on Wednesday.

yes, with Renko you are changing from time based charts to price based and so remove a lot of noise and smooth out the price action hopefully giving a clearer picture.

The twitter bears are taking a lot of flak at the mo and with good cause, especially the likes of Edgeye and Zerohedge who called a recession in 2015 and were wrong so they just repeat the call every year since in the expectation of being right eventually. Amusingly enough many traders have build this psychology into their trading plan, imagine anyone trying to continually short a bull market for 5 straight years, and yet as I've pointed out for years using the sentiment data of IG clients short/long positions that's exactly what many have been trying to do. Here's the thing, you don't need to guess, a chart will tell you if it's bearish. As Chris in the podcast above says, a market making new all time highs just can't be anymore BULLISH, there is only one way to go. So if the chart lines up with the macro and both are clearly bullish 'buy high and sell higher'. Do yourself a favour and spend the 50 minutes to listen to the podcast, you will learn something.