The scamster Adrian Shiroma apparently has a new broker. I’m not too sure what happened to MitsuiFX.com, but that domain is now redirecting to Shatori.com. This is just the latest development in the ongoing story of this “Spanish” scam. The original report that I wrote on Adrian can be found here. Then I found out […]
How to Show All Available Currency Pairs In Metatrader 4
A lot of my tutorials come as a result of problems that I had in the past, which I found the answer to. I figure those would be the most useful to you too. This is just such a case. In this tutorial, I will show you how to get access to all of the […]
Is MitsuiFX a Huge Scam? You be the Judge
Back in January, I wrote a post about Adrian Shiroma and why I thought (and still think) that he does not actually exist and is a Forex scam. Well, thanks to an alert Trading Heroes reader, Mr. Shiroma is back in the news again. This time it is because he is telling people to deposit their hard earned money into a broker called MitsuiFX. Here is what I dug up on MitsuiFX and the evidence is pretty convincing that this is also a total scam.
Metatrader Tutorial: How to Create Space for More Charts
Are you running out of room because you have a lot of charts open at the same time? Instead of trying to stick them on the same screen, you may want to put them on different “pages” so that you can categorize them by pair or strategy or time period. This is tutorial is rated […]
A Mobile Phone App That Might Finally Allow You to Leave Your Laptop at Home
As long as we can remember, we have hoped for the ability to truly trade Forex completely on our phones (or maybe it is just me). Back in the day, we had to open some painful java charts on a desktop computer and deal with all the glitchiness. I almost didn’t want to move the […]
Free Forex Education and Resources for Beginners
Here is my list of free Forex education resources that are currently available. They will get you started on your journey and help you stay motivated. Also see my list of Forex resources like where to get news, charting and more!
The Anatomy of a Half-Assed Forex Scam
My biggest pet peeve is all of the Forex trading scams out there. Forex is one of the best markets to trade and these slimeballs take people’s money before they ever have a chance at becoming successful. The reason that there are so many scams in this market is because Forex was unregulated for a […]
Can Twitter be Used as a Forex Trading Indicator?
I was talking to one of my friends who trades stocks and he mentioned that he watches the stocks that he is trading on Twitter to see what people are saying about those stocks. Then he uses that as a gauge for market sentiment and is one of the factors that he takes into account […]
Is Google+ Worth Joining For Forex Traders?
UPDATE: Google shut down Google+ because nobody was using it. Get the details here. I have been on Google+ for a few months now and I must admit that I like it better than Facebook. I still use Facebook because it is the 800 pound Gorilla of social media, but G+ does deliver a different […]
Metatrader 5 iPhone App (Build 485) Review
In my first review of the Metarader 5 iPhone app, wasn’t too impressed. It was slow and didn’t have too many charting features. Not that it was terrible though. In reality, that is pretty much par for the course. Most apps can give you good quotes and a few decent charts, but that is about […]
Metatrader 4 Tutorial – How to Scroll Bar-By-Bar
This video tutorial will show you how to scroll through a Metatrader chart one bar at a time. It is useful for playing back charts.
How to Run Metatrader and Forex Tester on a Mac
Don’t think that you can run Metatrader on Mac? Think again. This demonstration video will show you how easy it is to run Metatrader as a window on your Mac. All of the benefits of the super stable OS X Mac operating system with the ability to run programs like Forex Tester 2 and Metatrader.
Metatrader 5 iPhone Forex Software Review
I get my hands on the first MT5 iPhone app and compare it to other apps in the market. Metatrader 4 is such a good charting package that I was wondering when they would put all that programming power into an iPhone app.
How does it stack up against other products? Is it worth using? Find out in this post.
How to Retrieve a Metatrader MT4 Deleted Chart Window
Doh! Have you ever spent 10 minutes setting up one chart only to accidentally delete it immediately afterwards? That has happened to me several times in the past, usually in the middle of trading. Instead of seeing if there was an undo button command I would go about rebuilding the chart as soon as possible […]
Metatrader MT4 Tutorial: How to See the Current Chart in Full Screen Mode
This video will show you how to toggle back and forth between full screen and regular view modes. It will also show you some shortcut keys to take a peak at different windows while you are in full screen mode.
Book Review: The First Billion is the Hardest
What can you learn from one of America’s greatest energy men? Plenty.
Pickens went from successful oil man to hedge fund manager and lost a couple of fortunes in the process. To find out more about what you can learn from him, check out this post.
How to Setup Metatrader Text Message Alerts
Wouldn’t it be nice if you could get a text message whenever the price of your favorite pair hits your trigger level? Now you can! This tutorial will show you how to setup Metatrader text message alerts. Watch the step-by-step videos on how to do it.
How to Install and Test an Automated Backtesting System in Forex Tester 2
A couple of Newsletter subscribers asked about installing automated backtesting strategies in Forex Tester 2, So I decided to make a video. I believe that FT2 is the best manual forex backtesting software out there, but it can be used to test automated strategies as well. Here is how you do it: Click here for […]
Forex Tester 2 Tip: How to Change the Leverage You Use During Backtesting
I had a question from a reader about how to change the leverage that is used during backtesting. This is a great question and I don’t think they go over it in their instructional videos. The leverage does not need to be exact to the penny, but it must give an accurate representation of actual […]
How to Add Price Levels to MT4 Fibonacci Retracement Lines
If you use Fibonacci Retracements a lot, this tutorial may just be for you. In a previous post, I showed you how to do this with a few screen shots and some written instructions. Since then, I have become significantly more sophisticated (cough, cough) and I thought that I would do a video for you […]
Free Market Open Times Indicator
And in case you were wondering, I won’t be giving you indicators that already come with Metatrader. I thought that it would be good to build up a resource of indicators that you could pull from and possibly incorporate into your trading. This goes without saying, bu try them in a demo account first. If […]
Metatrader Tutorial: How to Get Back to the Current Bar Immediately
Sometimes your chart and take a little time to move back to the current bar after you have scrolled back. This post will show you how to solve this.
Forex Tester 2 Tip: How to View the Equity Graph
This is a great feature in Forex Tester 2 that you may not have known about. I only just started using it recently and it allows me to see where my system stops working and how volatile it is. These are two metrics that are not immediately evident when looking at the final testing results. […]
Custom Metatrader Programming Review
Recently, I wanted to have a Metatrader indicator that sent an alert every time a currency pair hit today’s or yesterday’s S3 or R3 pivot point. I know some programming, but I do not know the Metatrader programming language. Therefore, instead of investing hundreds of hours on figuring out how to program an indicator I […]
How to Setup Text Mesage Alerts in Metatrader For Free
UPDATE: (4/7/11): The free option is not working anymore. The only way to setup text message alerts is by following the instructions in this post. How do you know when the GBPCHF is close to entering a limit order when you are away from your computer? Set up an alarm that sends a text message […]
Forex Backtesting Software – Forex Tester 2 Review
When I first started in Forex, I was looking around for affordable, easy to use forex backtesting software. This is the one I found and I still continue to use it. Read this article to find out why.