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BTC/USD 5 point Renko Chart with a 24 period Triangular Moving Average and RSX (RSI smoothed) OBOS exit arrows (overbought oversold).

wow, look at this guys, S&P and Dow storming into new all time highs late Friday session not giving a **** it's the weekend. That's more than just bullish confidence. The Trump impeachment hearings are collapsing into farce. COT data is collected on a Tuesday and published Friday night so won't show this move but it looks like the big hedge fund managers are getting off the fence, open interest has been low til now but that looks to be changing.

Dow just tagged it's all time high again just for the sheer fun of it and just to show it can. Been a disappointing week for 'the crowd', every morning hoping for the market to roll over and every evening having to choke on yet another ATH. But just as well really as someone has to provide the other side of the market.

no, it's them being in control of it that's terrifying. Pravda Internet Services

forgot to add that of course the free broadband is going to cost billions.

oh dear, now Labour are going to nationalise internet access, free broadband for all 🙈🙉🙊 Labour’s #freebroadband proposal is a terrifying idea. The Corbyn movement is notoriously illiberal, censorious and hostile to internet freedom. Putting these authoritarians in charge of the web would be insane, says Brendan O’Neill

I think you need to dig deep but there is bank status somewhere, Swiss IG is registered as a bank.

there are many comparison sites such as this one; https://www.forexbrokers.com/compare/cmc-markets-vs-ig

Dow has ramped itself up over R1 and looks content to perch there awhile, Dow attempting to follow. Will see on the London open if there truly is support at R1 or if needs to check lower. US retail sales at 1:30 otherwise not much on the calendar but as it's a Friday probably expecting caution rather than a further push to the upside.

The crowd (permabears and top pickers (80% US index retail traders are short)) must be wondering what they're doing wrong as Dow breaks it's all time high for the third day in a row. Ftse wonders about the upcoming election and ASX makes tentative moves against key resistance. Dax's all time high has also just come into view (black line). S&P makes it's 21st record closing high of the year so far.

Overnight Indices up, USD and Oil down, Bonds down. Gold was up yesterday but lost all gains overnight. S&P and Dow into new all time highs, again. Chart US Tech 100. Today EU CPI at 10am and US retail sales at 1:30pm.

I don't use the signals service but just looked and IG are listed here in the 'select Broker' drop down box, select IG live or demo and try from there. see pic. https://www.mql5.com/en/signals/mt4/page1

Dax is rattling around perfectly happily between S1 and the Pivot just waiting for something to happen.

the page has links to a number of articles and a video so study them first, you need to set up an account etc. https://www.mql5.com/en/articles/618?utm_source=mt4terminal&utm_medium=special&utm_campaign=en.mail.signals

The important point all along was perpetual intellectual property theft, everything else was just dressing. Interestingly China a few days ago signed an agreement with the EU regarding IP rights but I have not had a change to go into it yet.

just seen you are looking for the metatraders 'signal service', you do that from the mt4 platform, it will have sent you mail, click on the 'Terminal' tab and see pic below

no you don't need to connect to metatrader at all, just IG. So you don't need metatrader's mt4 or their feed, just the ones provided by IG. so go back to my first post above and check you have IG's live and demo feed, as per my picture. to set up IG just click on each feed (live or demo) in turn and click 'next' and follow the instructions. For the live account you will need the info sent in 2 emails from IG, one with your login and one with your password. For demo account mt4 assigns a random one automatically.

The Trump impeachment hearing is turning into a joke, when the 2 'star witnesses' were asked just what they thought Trump should be impeached for neither could answer, their 'evidence' turns out to be second and third hand which they said was often more reliable than first hand evidence ...jeez. Open interest in the indices is still low, the big fund mangers are still waiting, Trump could end the trade dispute tomorrow if he wanted, in which case retail sales, indy production and GDP would take off. So there is just as good a case for a restart of the bull market after 18 months plus of consolidation as there is for any correction down and the market looks to be playing a waiting game sitting on the highs currently rather than the lows so optimistic rather than pessimistic. I do agree with your last para @786Trader

eg have you ever tried google translate? often turns out not quite what you were expecting 🙂

you don't need to connect to metatrader as you should be connected to IG instead, you seem to have the feed as the chart has opened. Right click on any where in 'Market Watch' and click 'Show all' (see pic). Also see https://www.ig.com/uk/trading-platforms/metatrader-4/what-is-mt4-how-to-use-it and also download the IG app add ons.

Hi, you are most welcome, start anywhere you like.

just meaning that TA is based on historic values that may or may not have any bearing on today's market. For example new news is much more important than yesterday's chart values.

no problem, you need to open mt4 so if downloaded from IG there should be IG mt4 icon on your desktop, double click to open mt4 and look in File tab (top left corner) of mt4. https://www.ig.com/uk/trading-platforms/metatrader-4

recently someone on the forum asked where are all the old posters? The answer is of course told in the line on the web pages '74% clients lose money' so why is that? 1/ Most people come into this thinking it's a game, like a casino, you learn the rules, play the game and maybe you're a natural and it all just takes off, ha ha. Would you start a new career with that mind set, no. 2/ Then you think 'Technical Analysis' must be the formula to success, you study hard and swamp your chart with TA but to no avail. TA is a science, trading is an art, they are not the same thing, to be good at one does not equal being good at the other. By now you've invested so much money and time (money) that you can't turn round and without any outside income you run your account out, with additional funds you can go on down the same road indefinitely, surely if you can just keep going you'll get there eventually? no. The video below looks at the reality of trading using math, it reiterates that most successful traders who stay in the game usually have a very simple methodology, many just use a simple ma crossover or price crossing an ma strategy - really. In the last few seconds of the video is a phrase that sums up what you need to do to make this work. Find it. Validate it. Do it. Find it; a simple system that suits your style of trading (see the OP of this thread), copy or adapt one (there are hundreds out there), or develop your own from scratch. Validate it; test it to make sure it works for you, collect data, backtest it, demo test it, live test it on min bet size (see the OP on testing). Do it; Stick to the system's rules and the rules need to be hard and fixed, not just platitudes. If you change anything you must go back to the validation stage, otherwise stick to the rules and let it play out over time and many trades. The 'find it' and 'validate it' stages cost time but not your savings account. If you get that right before going for real you are half way there which is further than the average punter gets. The 'do it' should be the easy bit but it's not, sticking to the rules is really hard, which is why many traders just use a simple strategy, because it's much easier to stick to. Once you have done all of the above you are ready to start trading for real, most only discover this after their account has already hit zero.

Hi, do you have the IG feeds to your mt4. 'File' > 'Open an Account' . (see pic below)