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There is tick data, minute data and OHLC data and remember too that the financial markets didn't really get going digital wise till late 1990s. The old monthly data will just be OHLC, the amount would be enormous if it were tick or even minute. IG only stores so many packets of data for each time frame but there are data bases around that do store much more such as minute data going back 20 years.

This is not true, demo platforms aren't designed for clients at all, they are designed to be a test bed for trialing new products for the brokers live platform, what would be the point of doing that on a 'rigged' platform copy. Anne Couling should stick to writing books on volume indicators without adding fake sensationalism to er, help sell her books on volume indicators.

Do any noobs come into trading with the understanding it is a profession rather than thinking it's a casino and hoping they will get lucky? And I am waiting to see evidence to the contrary. Reading TA for dummies over the weekend and start trading on Monday morning is the plan for most but for some reason it just doesn't work. There are high profile social media types you do mentoring etc but most traders don't go down that path, those that do SM and prove to be successful over years inevitably get plagued by noobs looking for short cuts and begging for mentorship.

HI, did you check out the IG add-on Correlation matrix and Correlation Trader from the Apps package? https://www.ig.com/uk/trading-platforms/metatrader-4/mt4-indicators

Yes, see https://www.ig.com/uk/compare-our-leveraged-trading

Interesting video by Nick Radge which covers some of the questions raised in this thread. Firstly it differentiates between quantitative, all the stuff you get from books and courses (which is not covered here) and instead looks at the qualitative, all the stuff that will help you to be successful but is never covered and why books and expensive courses don't really deliver. There is some psychology but it's more to do with what actually happens to a trader and an account over time as opposed to what should be happening. Recorded at conference in 2012, 1 hour long but there are some good jokes.

Hi @backwardation, PRT on IG is IG's own version rewrite, the two previous version upgrades of PRT over the last 7 years have taken nearly a year to be rewritten for IG after being released by PRT, hopefully this time might be quicker.

Hi @andste7, see this link below with more possible solutions;

@TrendFollower, I've just spotted a mistake in your last post but don't worry, I've put my rubber boots on and gone in and fixed it for you. You're welcome.

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Watch the volume on the US indices, it'll start to die when US traders pack up early and head home for the long weekend 🙂

Good point, I've not looked for a while and the shorts are way down from where they were, you would of thought the last 4 weeks would have encouraged them to hold, but then that's why it can be read as a contrarian indicator.

After the check at the pivot dax moved on to tag R1, currently back to join dow mid way between pivot and R1 awaiting the US market open. May be a tame Friday afternoon and into US market close as it's a public holiday in the US on Monday as well as UK.

All blue though small gains;

Julia Hartley-Brewer @JuliaHB1 Of course there is still every possibility that Theresa May will come outside to the No10 podium and announce her newest & boldest plan for a Brexit deal. She really is *that* mad.

Don't think you can IG data but you can historical M1 data (I think it's metaquotes) that should be near identical. See this vid;

Ftse in the same place as dax and dow, stuck between the pivot and R1.

58 holding;

TA books are all good, not much changes, here's a look at a H&S failure pattern from 1936 from Technical Analysis of Stocks Trends. Edwards and Magee.

Pound spikes up on news PM May to resign on the 7th of June.

Theresa will be downstairs to make her statement in a few minutes

@JamesIG, the knockout platform both live and demo is not working, see pic;

PM in a 9 am meeting and an announcement is expected immediately after.

A post from 2018, the text covers my observations while the link covers the opportunities for broker manipulation and malpractice of mirror trading.