thanks for posting, Rugger. i now understand what "automatic" vs "manual".
at interbankfx they have a tutorial on writing a program for automatic trading and for backtesting your program. probably fxcm has one too. "manual trading" is normal trading of setting stops, limits etc.; "automated trading" is using your program to work while you sleep. naturally, i'm trying to learn the auto thing for quant- maybe just use it for audio alerts at first then later for real.

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get the cd. it's how money gets made.