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Dax really wants to push higher but being held back by Dow. 1 min Dax with 1 min Dow (Dow 100 ema only), once the Dow ema heads upward Dax should be away.

Was just comparing the SSI data from FXCM with the COT and the Dow daily chart. Both the FXCM and COT confer that small speculators and retail (sameish) decided that the week starting 2nd of Jan was the time to go short on the Dow and have been flogging that horse ever since. Large speculators were reducing there long exposure through Jan but started piling back in increasing long exposure again from the start of Feb, but not retail, oh no, they knew better. Gulp.

Interesting survey results from Bloomburg on interest rate expectations up to Q4 2020. A/ not much change. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-04/central-bankers-are-hitting-the-pause-button

Dax made the running yesterday while the others keep in touch with recent highs. After the good news on the trade talks the inevitable downer that one major sticking point was China's insistence that all tariffs be removed before signing. Some initial sell off in Dax on the European open this morning but with all 4 posting green daily candles yesterday starting today anticipating continuation. H4 charts with S&P daily.

ADP nfp a miss at only 129k

Dow and S&P setting up for a strong US market open at 2:30pm. The API forerunner nfp today at 1:15pm 184K forecast. The US non-manu PMI at 3:00pm, 58.1 forecast. Dow daily with monthly pivots thrown in for good measure.

Dax gets a boost from latest EU PMI data while Ftse takes a hit with lower than expected Services PMI.

Hi Imran, the login for your mt4 accounts should have come from IG and is all numbers and can't be changed, only the password can be changed.

All the indices got a 1:00 am kick up on a FT report that the US/China trade talks have made real progress. H1 charts plus the S&P daily this time which has surged ahead into clear space.

@Jasmineliu, that is really odd, yeah @cryptotrader, the account has been funded so it has been linked but just isn't now, can only suggest to ask for tech support at the IG helpdesk.

ok, so the live feed needs to turn blue when you click on it, if doesn't then it's not active.

In your first post your pic shows you logged into your Live account and you had no demo account set up but the pic in your last post shows the demo account is the one that is active, did you just open a new demo? see pic below.

ok, and your feed from IG is ok? File > open an account > pic.

Hi @Jasmineliu, your order ticket is not live for some reason, see pic below. The symbol tab should fill automatically for the opened chart and the sell buy should be coloured. Try the symbol drop down to select manually.

More SSI, this time from FXCM; S&P 85% short, Dow 86% short. Now yes of course price might just reverse here ... but also it might not, how can 85-86% be so sure, it doesn't actually make any sense. They have all seen a red line and automatically presumed price is going to reverse on it. If I was smart money I know exactly what I'd do.

Ftse breaks up above 7370, Dow awaiting US market open, Dax stalls at 11760 (R1 pivot), and will look to Dow for direction. H1 charts;

Biggest volume of the year so far pushing this latest move up.

@Turnip230248, there is a good exercise to help with recognising when the rhythm of the market is too whippy and when it has calmed and moving in a more controlled manner. I've heard it mentioned a few times before but it came up again today to remind me. On demo zoom in as close as you can go and enlarge the price scale so the current candle on a one hour chart takes up as much of the screen as possible, get a feel for how price pulses up and down on the current candle. Try to read it and anticipate, hitting the buy or sell and exiting over and over. It's a practice exercise on market movement and not a trading style so you use it to learn to gauge the current pace of rhythm of the market in order to help with trading on your actual time frame.

Very tentative easing forward, expecting continuation today, US durable goods at 1:30, US market open 2:30. H4 charts and Dow daily.

Ok, that means it's not currently linked to your account by IG, you'll need to call the helpdesk to see why and get them to reactivate the activate button so to speak.

@SantaClaus just check that it's still activated, go to My IG > Settings > Prorealtime, see pic below.

Hi @SantaClaus, you can check IG system operational status here https://status.ig.com/ But PRT is coming up ok. I would keep trying and see how it goes.

See pic resource monitor below, I've got 2 platforms running, web based and mt4, with about 30 charts open plus tweetdeck running and extras, anti virus etc, with 16 gb mem and only using 35%. You sure someones not using your computer to mine bitcoin (joke, hey the emojis have disappeared)

@nit2wynit, yeah that's the new web based platform, I really can't think what's causing your lag but certainly not having any problem here. Do you have any special apps that are getting in the way of the feed and slowing it down?

That's quite brave @Turnip230248 trading straight into the US market open as you will usually get some bouncing around at first, tends to be better to allow things to settle a bit and wait for one side to take control. So your actual long entry was well judged with the bulls showing real intent with the 3 bar spike then hammering in on the pullback.