Hello there
I am new to the forex and have been working with a micro demo account now for a couple of months (via FXCM). I find the postings here very useful and am hoping you can answer a couple of queries for me.
Firstly, can anyone suggest brokers to use or brokers to avoid (based on your own experience). I find FXCM very smooth, but have recently experienced a couple of operational issues that have surprised and disturbed me. Maybe I am just getting a bit twitchy, but would like things to go as smoothly as possible when I take the plunge. The internet is awash with forex broker ads but I value the opinion of your members here highly.
Secondly, I wondered if there any metrics one can use to determine if one is "getting it" or not. I know that financial return is a pretty useful indicator that you are getting your head around it. I have been trading EUR/USD when UK and US overlap and I have been doing very well with the demo account (far exceeding my own targets), but have the feeling that the market has been making it easy for me in the last couple of months. I have tried 'out of hours' and have failed miserably. So, I suppose I can rephrase the question to be "Is there a measurement on how 'tricky' the market is"?
Thanks in advance and thanks for a great site.
Regards,
Darren.