One more thing I challenge any investor to do: Forget conventional wisdom. Trading books, showing cookie cutter patterns such as trendlines, fibo sequences, and flag patterns are.... not reliable. For every pattern shown to be success, I will ...

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Davidee you are starting to catch onto my methods... Definitely not exactly on target, but definitely warmer than most will ever be

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And, maybe it is just a good discussion topic. As for my profile quote --- I changed my tune a bit. Nothing is guaranteed, though I have several $K in play... Each year is a new deck of cards... sometimes you walk away big, sometimes you walk away ...

Name just ONE successful forex trader...

Extended.... bigger library of errors — //Translates and returns an MT 4 error code //Source for translations: url //and url string returnError(int errorCode) { //1 switch(errorCode) { //2 case 0: return("No error returned."); case 1: ...

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Copy that. Looked all too similar to Martigale variants.... I will be following this thread with great interest. Unfortunately, I do not have much faith in Joel right now. I did my own testing of his strategies, and found that his backtesting was ...

Robust Volatility Breakouts - Set and Forget

Those lot sizes look dangerous, asasa!

Robust Volatility Breakouts - Set and Forget

Hayseed says "often" and he/she is right... it is not a slam dunk for fixing this problem.

Reloading data on MT4

Pippo: Damn fine observation you've made. The spike would cause a bloated channel. That's why a small lookback will pass the spike through rather quickly, which is just enough time to see if it was truly worth measuring. -Tom

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Ah, Tradestar does not wish to divulge any mechanics of his system

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Not necessarily. The spike can continue in the direction it started, thus balancing out cases of retracement.

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Tradestar: In regard to the 2 day system: It sounds very similar to what I do with the Donchian Breakout. I use the DB to determine the direction of the trend, and then I enter trades on candlestick action with the intention of only taking a small ...

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Tradestar: This is one position open at a time, or scaling in (and out)?

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Ah, clever

MT4 global variables: my new best friend

I'm not familiar with what you are talking about. Can you show me?

MT4 global variables: my new best friend

Does it prescribe specific strategies to specific markets? IE) Buy oil when X and Y happen

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Personally I will never go for the cookie cutter strategies prescribed by TA books. Bullish Pennant Flags, Point and Figure, so on and so forth... My philosophy is that a one size fits all approach is not going to work on every market.... SO KNOW ...

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Do it JJ!

Price action trader wanting to turning pro

What is fascinating about Donchian discussion is: 1) What is the lookback on your channel? 2) Are you trading it is a breakout (trend follower) or a counter trend (resistance)? 3) Are you using it in conjunction with other criteria to enter / exit ...

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I'd like to look at other pairs, but my time and effort have gone into EURUSD just to get something on the street. As we speak, I am turning the prototype code I wrote into state of the art software to run in a data center. There will be a website ...

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