
WEEKLY DIGEST 2015, January 03 - 10 for Scalping Trading: Top 5 Reasons to Not Automate Your Trading Published

MQL5 blogs
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1 hour 20 min youtube video updated
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Emini Scalping The Emini S&P 500 – Day Trading Course
"Emini S&P 500 futures are smaller-sized contracts of ‘full-grown’
futures contracts that is present for a long time. Emini S&P 500
futures are also called eminis. Not like the latter that have been
traded on physical exchanges, eminis have always been traded
electronically, letting retail traders with access to the Net to compete
against academic traders from the comfort of their houses or home based
offices.
Several times a day, these highly popular trading instruments are being
traded by emini s&p 500 futures traders. Day trading eminis doesn’t
require you to have a big capital to risk. A few emini s&p 500
futures brokers can open an account for you with only $3,000 if not
barely less, so it is no wonder that many try their hand at this game
that may be quite productive to people who have mastered it."
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Top 5 Reasons to Not Automate Your Trading PublishedGood article
"Many inexperienced traders think they can develop a scalping bot that will trade 50-100 times per day and that they can run it automated through their retail account. If there is someone doing this successfully, please let me know, because I have never heard of such a person. "Dream scalpers," as I call them, are playing against the big boys: high frequency trading (HFT) firms with tons of infrastructure, speed, and precision. To think a little scalping bot can compete with HFTs is pretty much insane."