There are not tons of systems that give 5 to 10% a month. Have backtested now 200 systems and only found 5 that are actually worth trading.

Do you check news all day?

haha, blew another account? Maybe your analysis is just crap? Have you ever considered that? You do realize that forex is for most just a medium to exchange money to be able to participate in the stock market or bond market in certain regions, or to ...

Trend Trading All Pairs

It depends how you want your life to be. You wanna sit in front of the computer all day and become a scalper? Then checking the news every day might be a good idea. I personally don't want that and enjoy my day, so I put on a couple of trades based ...

Do you check news all day?

5 trades are totally irrelevant. Even a random system could achieve that performance. You need to see how it performs over a larger number of trades. Lots are irrelevant. The size you should trade is dependant on your largest historical drawdown and ...

Please comment on my performance

Like everything it takes skills to determine which news are important at which point in time. There are a handful of events per year that actually set up a nice move of a couple of hundreds to thousands of pips. But one has to apply one's common ...

Do you check news all day?

sometimes I really wonder about the education level here on ff. You just download 4 hour data into excel and make an analysis in excel. You make some "if" formulas and put the results into a pivot table to see if there is a correlation or not. If ...

Correlation between first 4 hour candle and daily candle

Totally irrelevant for the fed if the market is suprised or not. The QE3 having a positive effect on the economy is the only thing that matters.

Will there be a QE3?

God, what kind of question is that? They try to get the ECONOMY going. Why you think they will even care about what the stock market is doing? Remember the aims of the FED, if not then please read up on them on the fed's website: controlling ...

Will there be a QE3?

What? why all or nothing? Just because one can't open two 5% positions, doesn't mean that a system is suddenly not profitable anymore. If maximum profits are reached at 5% position size, then using less percentage will just reduce profits, but by no ...

Is a Trade w/ 5% Risk Made Impossible on 50:1 Leverage Accounts?

of course leverage is tied to regulation. When is leverage not tied to regulation? how low can they go? maximum 25:1 which corresponds to the futures markets. Still fantastic leverage for free. I personally don't care about the US traders. But they ...

Is a Trade w/ 5% Risk Made Impossible on 50:1 Leverage Accounts?

unfortunately the likelihood is high that it won't work in the long-term. You really need maybe around 10 years of data to be able to say anything viable. There are lots of strategies that work for a couple of months to years only to make you lose ...

New Strategy Question

depends on your system. Obviously if it is trend-following then you should not trade in a range. If it is a scalping system then a trend is not always necessary. If you just trade according to fundamental opportunities then previous market ...

"Don't trade in a ranging market"

if you are trading such long time-frames you really have to consider to include fundamentals. It would just be complete nonesense to disregard fundamentals for weekly (or even daily) charts.

Trading weekly

I think you approach it the wrong way. Leverage is not your problem. You just don't have a profitable system. Even if you didn't use any leverage, you would fail in the long-term. Well except you just wait until the market comes back, but that can ...

I don't want to use leverage

looks good, simple is best. As long as it works and meets your expectations, it's a good idea to trade it disciplined and mechanically.

How to cut losses and letting winners run

I think that would be quite useless. If we are taking a high shot, then those 100 traders or even a 1000 traders here would accumulatively have open positions in the realms of 1 million to 10 million $. In a trillion $ market that is anywhere from ...

Follow the FF Money?

not sure what the problem is. There is no other market offering such kind of leverage. Be happy that you can get a 50:1 leverage. Also be happy that you don't need to pay interest on that leverage and not provide collateral or provide a personal ...

Is a Trade w/ 5% Risk Made Impossible on 50:1 Leverage Accounts?

I must say I am a bit shocked that somebody with 4 years experience posts about such a system. First, you don't always have liquidity, so that is a problem. Secondly, when I open one lot from say 1.5000 and price goes down to 1.4950, then I have 50 ...

Probability in forex a 100% edge signal?

haha, so you just wanna know: how the hell can I trade profitably, cause currently I suck in trading, right? first things first: throw out these crappy indicators. secondly the answer is: it takes years to figure all that out and lots of dedication.

How can I get success entry order with perfect SL - TP

did you even read what their research was about? haha, funny you show me two research articles and both of them are actually about lowering homocystein to prevent recurrent cardiovascular diseases and it was not at all about liver damage. It's like ...

Diet and trading: Vegetarians better at trading?