Hmm. How do you determine when the market is ready for a correction. Obviously, stochastics is one way but is there another. that would be my wholly grail. Anyway, the most "hits" has some merit. But, turns are never easy or we would all be rich.

The Holy Grail - Found

fx norm? can you explain the exact "rules" -- I am missing something. (assuming an up) RULE 1 50 > 100 EMA ON DAILY RULE 2 Mulitple resistance on 30 mn at least 8 hours apart.? RULE 3 play buy stop order above it by 2 pips? What bars do I look @ in ...

The Holy Grail - Found

does anyone know the exact rules to this system? Please enlighen me someone!

The Holy Grail (trade posting thread)

well , maybe I don't know what I am looking at@. 1.) ema of 50 greater than 100. (assume for a long) 2.) On the 30 mn chart will want multiple hits on a high at least 16 bars apart. (30 mn x 2) 3.) Place the buy stop off this resistance level? ...

The Holy Grail - Found

grail — well, I would certainly be interested ..choppy week. these breakout systems are very hard to ensure so I am also skeptical. If there are concrete rules than it easy. but "bias" or resistance of 2 x over 18 hours etc is probably not ...

The Holy Grail (trade posting thread)

Yes, looking back I see a lot of subjectivity also. Probably not worth programming. I am kind of a get in the middle of a trend sandwich and eat whats left type of trader. This is breakout trading. Like anything else, when you get to the top or the ...

The Holy Grail - Found

e — Not sure why you would not create an ea for this. modified turtle could work? Maybe a long would be // ema + 50 > 100 and slope of 40 degrees~ maybe 20 > 50 > 100 ??? A lot would depend on how many times would be required before we ...

The Holy Grail - Found

pa — excellent post: SPT : However, for me -- having my 3 years worth of trading is that I am not capable of manual risking the kind of dough without fear. Therefore, I take the automated route --- shut my monitor off , go to work, come home ...

The Holy Grail - Found

backtesting — Backtesting is a joke. I have an ea on backtest that took my trades from 1,000 to 2.5 million in 1 1/2 years. Its called Cybertrader. Try it live and your dead. You can backtest and optimize electronically and get whooped. show ...

Bash that system!!!

I think a guy can safely put down 300 - 600 pips per week on 5 currencies -depending on your trading model (for automated-- manual is much more variable) ... after that, it gets kind of dicey when you press it. unless you really know how to manage ...

How much money can a seasoned semi-pro make with trading on Forex?

RISE — I would question who your getting your prof training from. Not a lot of successful folks out there - most trainers are monday morning quarterbacks. That is a red flag to me. I think It will take you a long time to really be able to look ...

Full time trading?

fxcm — Not sure why your using these guys. Their are tons of better platforms..efx etc ... FXCM is a pure bucket shop and until they clean up their act it is likely a lot of money will leave their premises.

True story of FXCM 'at best' option

If its an automated system. fine. If not, are you going to be up at 3:00 am and ready for the signal? If not ,,, cut your numbers down.

Need your opinion

crooks — yeh , I would never say fxcm is a crook.. I apologize. they just process your orders after their big boys get their coin and show spikes up and down all over their platform that do not compare to any metatrader platforms for the same ...

Is Your Broker a Crook?

trending vers ranging — Well, the success and utter failure eas' is tight. I think both manual and automated trading is very tough contrary to what people say. If you could find 1 winning system, it is probably not that tough to automate! I ...

Market conditions: trending vs. ranging, technicals vs. intuition

plenty on fxcm ... ha . they will steal you blind ! Is interbank fx a ecn broker?

True or False: Brokers like you to make money

cool site. Not sure why fxcm is not on there. They are a bunch of crooks

Is Your Broker a Crook?

cell — the only problem you run into sometimes is too many calls as the indicators can bounce. You will want to run a "new bar" function in your ea to limit 1 call per transaction.

Cell phone signals

do you have an indicator to send an alert ? I used to use this and it acts as an smtp server relay from your options menu in metatrader ..... I assume you can get a text message to your cell. or if your isp is smtp.... I have not used in a year or ...

Cell phone signals