Well, here it goes....
Ultra newb to posting on any forum, to FX and have a newb. So between lack of sleep & info overload (and trying to type with one hand due to the babe in arms) I apologize in advance for typos and my likely dense qeustions!
First off, I must also state how incredibly impressed I am with this thread & you, Tymen, due to your tireless efforts to teach - with simplicity & clarity, sincerity, dedication, & infinite patience with your students (us). You must have been that 'one' teacher that made a difference in many students' lives! A true teacher is always a teacher and does so just for the joy of teaching. (Unlike those who only give with the intention of getting something in return down the line - got sort-of friends/neighbour like that. I always dread their 'generosity' as I know I'll pay for it down the road...somehow.) And, on that note, glad to see you've come out the other side of last month's nonsense and are still willing to keep going - a TRUE teacher! Thank you for that.
Secondly, I need to vent! I hadn't yet read the posts with the email address for Kinetics and didn't want to call around the world (yet) but wanted to see what was so wonderful about Dealbook, so, against all advice in here and with serious misgivings I signed up with GFT, thinking 'how bad could they be for just a 30-day trial'? (Not that you can find THAT minor detail anywhere on their site!) Well part of their mandatory sign-up fields ask for phone # (not particularly unusual) and also best time to call (hmmmm, not liking this). So, I gave my cell # (don't want to be disturbed on the home phone if we & the babe are sleeping after a rough night) and best time to call as 'afternoon'. Oh, and I signed up for the demo around 10:00 at night. Well, the VERY NEXT MORNING at 8:05 a.m. they started calling me and on my HOME PHONE!!!!!!!!!!!! They have called AT LEAST 10 TIMES in the past 2 days!!!!!!!! And people wonder why we screen all our calls!! Needless to say, I'm totally NOT impressed with this company and I haven't even spoken to them! And, if I do, it won't be pleasant!!!!
That being said, Dealbook IS very sweet to work with. Oanda is easy to use but, as has been well noted, is overly simplistic ...... although, with your simplifications, it might be just fine .... Personally, MT4 (now that I finally know what that means) has wayyy too much of a learning curve for me and I couldn't find (didn't look overly hard) a decent tutorial or userguide. Sorry, no energy to spend on that right now and have no patience for software that isn't more intuitive/user friendly these days.
OK, enough rambling.....I have a couple of basic question about Dealbook and please redirect me if they should go on the UML or UMS or some other thread altogether.
1. In demo mode, can you set the lots to mini lots (as you recommend in Basic Level)? I can't find a way to do so, and the "Help" feature is the only complaint I have with the software so far - it's fairly useless.
2. And, along the same train, is there a way to change the leverage amount? It is automatically set for the maximum, I think, and I want to reduce it to demo in the way I would trade (if I ever get there, at this rate).
I have many more questions, but these technical details are driving me crazy at the moment, and the other Q's should probably be on one of the other 2 threads.
Thanks in advance.
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