You could still keep several charts open to past data, different timeframes, stop vhands, study the other charts, then make the trade decision.

How Can I Forward Test Effeciently?

Money Management — I wish I had done this sooner. I put these together yesterday and I think I'm really gonna love them. They are to be placed in the scripts folder. Use: Enter in your stop in pips and your risk % (% of account equity that you ...

Transition from Losing to Winning

Fear of Leaving Money on the Table — Here's something I realized. When you're looking over your stats for the month... for example, say you look at Wednesday the 14th, and your log shows you took a 32-pip profit and you hit your daily target ...

Transition from Losing to Winning

6 quarters of trading isn't much. But if someone makes money for 10 or 20 weeks consistently, then they've got it. Add another year of profits, now it becomes very significant. If you can make 1% per day, it doesn't matter too much how little you ...

Would I have any takers?

If a trader had an 18-month track record of consistent profits, and was willing to deal with $2500, that is so non-sequiter that I would not trust them. However, there's someone on here, can't remember the handle, who traded $2 up to $20 in a few ...

Would I have any takers?

It may depend on how the indicator is programmed, but if they used the standard MT4 codes, they are: Type: 0 = SMA, 1 = EMA, 2 = SMMA, 3 = LWMA Price: 0 = Close, 1 = Open, 2 = High, 3 = Low, 4 = Median, 5 = Typical, 6 = Weighted

Indicator input numbers

I'll just take it as it comes. First hurdle was being profitable ANY month! haha You think I'm honest and open, well, that story will probably never be posted! But I welcome positive input from anyone. This is just another of those things that ...

Transition from Losing to Winning

Good advice. I do all my playing on one computer, trading on the laptop, and that's about all I use the laptop for. The desktop can serve as a backup for live trading if the laptop goes down. I use interbank FX, the demos never expire as long as ...

VHands Trading Simulator

Custom Indicator — Price alert indicator. Changing the input from 0 will cause it to sound an alert at that price. It becomes a nuisance and is hard to remove once it starts, but it is designed to wake me up.

Transition from Losing to Winning

The closed candle one is a tough one. I still jump in once in awhile then get "buyer's remorse". In April last year I traded a system mechanically that used MA's, MACD and RSI, that's where I was on May 2. Around mid-May or thereabouts, I abandoned ...

Transition from Losing to Winning

Trading Plan — January is off to a good start. I lost some of my profits for Dec, but ended the month in profit - first ever. So far this month (traded only 2 days) I'm up more than the entire month of December. Of all I've learned, ...

Transition from Losing to Winning

Hot DANG! Thank you thank you thank you Oromis!!!! I never even noticed that pause key before. Works like a charm, and now we can have charts big enough to read (for us cavemen with plain old 17" monitors).

VHands Trading Simulator

You can't just look at the winners. There's someone every week that turns a $1 lottery ticket into millions.... I've tried this probably 50 times and it never worked for me. So, look at the list of participants in those contests, ranked by their ...

How many years to become profitable?

Congrats on the trade, or gamble, whichever the case may be. I don't know how to trade news, so for me it would only be a gamble. BTDTLM. BA*. As for indicator addiction, there's nothing like getting the facts. I wrote a thread which explains only ...

Indicator Free Trading - Skunny

E/U — Well, the E/U turned out pretty nifty. Randomity or harmony? Broke out back above the recently punctured 0, hit the 138 on NFP.

Indicator Free Trading - Skunny

Cycles — For our purposes, cycles do end -- a cycle ends when it's time to move the fib. We don't know for sure when cycles begin/end. We do know two things: We know when it doesn't end. We know not to move the fib until it does. Example, on ...

Indicator Free Trading - Skunny

G/U scores — I had a sell stop at 9798, t/p 9778, the bid just hit 9773. Would have scored, if I'd stayed in bed and not removed the trade. It was a small position, I don't have enough faith in setting trades ahead of time, I like to watch PA ...

The Holy Grail - Found

Nice chart, Pipo, it looks like a skunny trade for sure.

Indicator Free Trading - Skunny

G/u — Looks like a setup on the GBP/USD. Daily trend down, bias down. Several taps to the 9703 level. Gee, seems like yesterday a GBP cost over 2 bucks. Ya know, if it breaks 9700, there's not much between price and 9650. If it breaks 9650, be ...

The Holy Grail - Found

Yes, OR sell stops below strong support.

The Holy Grail - Found