It all depends on how you look at indicators. If you view them as a self fulfilling prophesy then your reasoning is corect. I however find it difficult to believe in the self fulfilling prophesy of the indicators especialy when it comes to forex. ...

De-Fault Of De-Indicator

What makes you think that the default setting would keep you from curve fitting?

De-Fault Of De-Indicator

With EUR/USD 1 pip = 1$ for mini lots. To see how much that would be in AUD just divide that by the current AUD/USD rate. So right now if u set a 50 pip SL on the EUR/USD and u trade 1 mini lot and your stop gets hit you would loose 50/0.6616=75.57 ...

calculating pips

You do not need to do the Alpary/converter thing anymore. Just go to tools Hystory Center and download your data.Below is a pic: You may also want to delete all the existing records for increased data accuracy and restart the terminal. Doing all ...

Yet another MT4 historical data question...

If you are new to programming then it might be a little early to worry about those things - might be a while untill you have an EA worth stealing. Anyway the function AccountNumber() returns the account number. You would have to get the account ...

Need help with coding account number in EA

Where is the EA?

How to change to Fixed from Percent

The day you come back to this post and realise how ridicoulos your questions are will be a big day in your trading career (if that day ever comes).

Turning US$300 into $10k in a month... is it possible?

I like them all!!!

What is the best ea in this forum??

Yes you do. Stop trading! You are takling about the risk reward ratio. In esence you are risking 60 pips to make 20. This means that for every loosing trade you would need 3 winning trades to just break even and unless you have a system with a high ...

how to lose money spreadbetting

And all along, the first thing i would do after winning a trade was call my broker. Thank you for your enlightment

For Gosh sake, don't call your broker

Love the name

Shortcut TO Buy/sell

What kind of difference does it make whether the first few trades after going live are winners or looser? You are not in this for the first few trades are you? If your system has an edge it does not matter if when you go live the first few trades ...

Stacking the odds ..yes we do need luck

While measuring your performance and setting goals using benchmarks like the once on Barklay has certain benefits that may not be entirely appropriate for most traders, especially the small traders. It is not because a the goals of a small trader ...

$100 to $100K in 1 year...

Yes, for $250/mo

TradeStation

That's not a fake spike and it has nothing to do with stop hunting either. It's just a bad tick in your data...

Yet another Stop hunt :? a conspiracy theory

I am no expert but here is a suggestion: You could have a variable that would hold the entry time. As soon as you take a trade you assign the time to that variable: if trade { entry_time=time() } if (entry_time==time()) { no trades } else { new ...

Avoiding Double Trades

Look into normalizedouble()

Truncating 0's

Of course that is possible. There are no guarantees that any system will survive. I was not trying to promote such a system but merely compare the two.

Bash that system!!!