SMJones, your cow bus was LMAO yesterday... For those that missed it, url How many bounces off a daily trendline before you get in? What do you guys think of Tesla's Fancy Shmancy Trendline alert? He's a pretty sharp guy, that Tesla....

Follow the trend!

FXJarhead, not everyone trades standard $100,000 lots. I can trade $1,000 nanolots with FXSol, where each pip is worth only $0.10.... So 10,000 pips would only be a $1,000 gain in that example.

can you earn 1400 pips per month with one pair?

Drawdowns are less severe. The double edged sword in all of this is when multiple strategies draw down simultaneously. All you can do is ride it out. Combined result:

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Strategy 2:

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How exactly am I building this EA? I take a few profitable strategies, and combine them to cancel out each others drawdown. The idea is to have many irons in the fire at once. Here are two different strategies, and the effect of combining them. ...

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This thread is a work in progress, and rules will change as I continue to evolve the EA with new ideas. I guess I don't mind posting losses because I am not here to impress anyone. My vision is to create a piece of software that will trade for me ...

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The Euro gained strength yesterday, based on the German Manufacturing Report. The report could have just as easily worked in the EA's favor. I'd like to point out that this EA only wins 1 in 4 every trades in the six year backtest, so starting with ...

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Trade 4's chart....

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Trade 3's chart....

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Trade #3 SL: -22 New Balance: $9382 Pip Count: -110 Trade #4 SL: -76 New Balance: $9139 Pip Count: -186

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I generally don't credit a "late" trade unless I have an idea of the character of the poster. You get to know people's personalities that post on this forum after awhile. It's never like a real life knowledge of the person, but the "who we are" ...

What do you think of members who only share their trades way after they happened?

Just put one image per post and it will show.

Show us your best fake Grail...

Er, in all fairness pablopr has posted that he risks 20% of his account for scalp trades in another thread. Isn't there a risk of a margin call if the market suddenly moves against him, especially with no stops in place? Too dangerous for my blood, ...

How do you recover your losses?

I use Sun Openoffice and PDF995, both available for free. I go to the thread and then "thread tools," and select "view printable version" I then click "show 40 posts per page" in the upper right corner Here's where it's a little tricky... I click ...

Faster System Learning...

I always find the live trade journals of people here interesting.... it would appear that people like steviet and obeewon are having success....

how does this trader make money?

wins: system breaks even when it is not winning (achieved by diversifying entry setups) risk/reward ratio is high years of backtests show the system doesn't draw down much

most common reasons for wins or losses

Hate to open this can of worms, but even if you are doing well in forex, you still have to find a credible broker. I have struggled with this a lot lately. Is an ECN the only way to not be cheated? Are any brokers out there not making money when we ...

how does this trader make money?

To me, low risk and high reward is key. Suppose you are risking 2% of your capital every trade, and you lose 10 in a row. Your account would drop to 80%. But suppose each winning trade would increase your account 10%. You would only need 2 winners ...

How do you recover your losses?

Trade #4 04.02.2007 03:00 sell 0.3 lots EURUSD @ 1.3339 SL 1.3413 TP 1.3231

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Trade #3 04.02.2007 00:00 sell 1.0 lots EURUSD @1.3375 SL 1.3395 TP 1.3175

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