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Hi Guys, has anyone tried using tick charts with Aims.just curious if they're any more accurate than 1minute or not??
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kooky wrote:Hi Guys, has anyone tried using tick charts with Aims.just curious if they're any more accurate than 1minute or not??
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As long as the spread remains above 1 pip there will be less chances of success on lower time frames. Honestly speaking if we get .1 spread with no commission we will most certainly do a killing. On m1, 1 pip = 10% of your profit. My guess is on tick chart, 1 pip spread is going to be a huge percentage of "the wave" on a tick chart. Besides this obvious limitation there is the problem of "enough volume of ticks per second". I hope I understood what you meant by "tick chart" .

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rather than tick charts for super fast trading, there is a school of thought, which I have never followed, to suggest that one can divide the time into the number of ticks rather than the number of seconds and minutes..........

I expect eventually the effect of broker execution delays on very fast trading would cause slippage too great to bear, but like Immy says, if one could trade at a low commission, on a professional account basis perhaps there might be some advantage still. By what I can see with EAs the results achieved on live accounts are never as good as on demo (Million Dollar Pips would be an example) and the traders I talk to have moved away from such strategies. I would rank binary trading as probably disappointing too for similar reasons.
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