How Much Trading Capital Do You Need To Earn $100K A Year?
In this article, we are going to make use of the professional trader’s calculator to find out how much capital you need to earn a 6-figure salar
Welcome to Darwinex Blog
The place to get insights about our trading and investing products, help you maximise the use of our tools and feed you with our most recent developments.
How do good traders use leverage? – Part I
Good traders know that no more than between 5:1 and 10:1 D leverage is required to achieve 20% to 60% returns per annum, at 10% VaR. Background In a r
Why You Too Should Join The Independent Trader Movement (1)
Welcome to the first episode of the Trader Nation Podcast, an encounter with you, traders and investors of the independent trader movement, in audio
Will Darwinex become a market maker?
ESMA's intervention puts Darwinex in the situation of applying for a market maker license. What does this mean for the members of the Independent Trad
Automated Tick Data Collection & Storage with R, MetaTrader, and a VPS
Let’s continue where we left off in our last post on tick data collection.If you missed it, it’s important that you familiarise yourself with its
How To Download Tick Data in MetaTrader 4 & 5
This post describes how to download and save tick data offline, from both MT4 and MT5.Functional code samples (MetaTrader indicators) have been provi
Sharpe Ratio – A Reliable Measure of Performance?
This post describes some of the shortcomings of the Sharpe Ratio, that render it a non-optimal tool for measuring the performance of a trading strateg
MetaTrader EAs: The "Set & Forget" Myth [EAS-II]
This is the second post in the MetaTrader Expert Advisor [EAS] series we’ve begun recently. In case you missed it, here’s a link to the fi
ZeroMQ – Transaction Reporting via MetaTrader (ZMQ-III)
In this third installment of our ZeroMQ series, we describe how to use ZeroMQ in non-MQL trading strategies to get the following information: Account