HF's do not trade much differently than the rest of the trading world. The glaring disparity is that they are working with a much much larger capital base and can afford talent with higher education levels, thus emploring more sophisticated research ...

Seeking Trading Indicator with 50%+ success

The learning curve is so difficult to overcome here, that when most traders think they have found a profitable, researched, and backtested method to exploit an inefficiency in the market, by that time the returns to that gap are diminishing or have ...

Seeking Trading Indicator with 50%+ success

exactly what this guy said

Seeking Trading Indicator with 50%+ success

This pattern forming at the bottom is called a sine wave with increasing amplitude. In observing the pattern, it does appear to be making its way to the top completion area. If there is an unexpected factor in the market it could fall further. Bad ...

AUD/USD

Lol, I'm short this pair as well. If data comes out better than expected this might go to 0390, if it comes out bad it still might head there given the Chinese inflation number that printed earlier this week(3.4vs3.2), think classic mark-down ...

AUD/USD

did not work well on GBPUSD, too choppy of a pair for that strategy

NSK's Easy Swing Trading

yes that certainly is a downside to testing longer term strategies. We cannot obtain enough time series data for a statistically significant test.

NSK's Easy Swing Trading

Here's the equity curve with a 400 pip stop and 1200 pip target. The strategy generates quite attractive returns for the longer term investor.

NSK's Easy Swing Trading

fxcm TSII strategy backtester

NSK's Easy Swing Trading

Here are the stats and equity curve. Looks pretty good huh? ran from dates 4/8/2007-4/8/2012, so 5 years of data over 14million ticks modeled. Starting balance on the account was 10k, trading 1 standard lot using 300 pip stop 700 pip target.

NSK's Easy Swing Trading

50 and 100 SMA crosses on the daily. 300 pip stop, 700 pip target. If you are an algorithmic trader, it is ideal to have multiple accounts for multiple strategies(due to FIFO regs if you are in the US). So this strategy could be run as a longer term ...

NSK's Easy Swing Trading

im backtesting this strategy right now

NSK's Easy Swing Trading

Stay away from the likes of the bolded text. The first thing you should learn in forex is risk management. There are plenty of great forums here for that for free . Alternatively, if you want an outside source, try "Market Wizards" by Jack ...

Books, Courses, Forums, Webinars and Other Resources

To be quite honest, I never really read much into trading books that attempt to teach techniques. What I find is that those books really generalize the market as their strategies will always work, when in fact this is not the case at all. Markets ...

Books, Courses, Forums, Webinars and Other Resources

My risk parameters with respect to strategies is as such: I start the day by looking to enter maybe 2 or three positions to build as a part of my total daily risk allotment. During one trading day(17:30-16:00EST) I allow maximum risk in my account ...

When to break the 2% rule?

holding trades is all about mental discipline and your risk, anyways macro events are always in the charts long term or short term. I have systems that produce 37% win ratio are are still profitable because of good risk management.

Fundamentals here are out of whack

You absolutely cannot trade this market based on fundamentals because the markets are highly corrupted by central bank intervention. Prices as well as perceptions and expectations are very distorted right now. When will this sort out? maybe after ...

Fundamentals here are out of whack

know your risk

One thing you would pass on

not necessarily....there are many endogenous variables in this equation

Why do higher bond prices mean a stronger dollar?