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- Scottie replied May 11, 2008
EMA — Thanks LC, I was able to modify it for the pivot moving averages. Scott
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- Scottie replied May 9, 2008
Average True Range — Abnormalone, let me digress just a bit here. if i'm going to use another pair, and i will when i put this to a much higher account size, then instead of 200 pips, i'm going to use a round number close to the bottom of the ...
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- Scottie replied May 9, 2008
And I thought I had a good thing. — hehe, thats funny. be very careful with capital and draw downs with this system. that is one reason that this won't work. and probably most importantly why it won't work, knowing how you handle draw downs ...
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- Scottie replied May 9, 2008
Richard, math and music go hand in hand. i'm a cellist. You will have no trouble reading charts, the market has rythm and timing. Practice makes perfect and that (practice) and a little help from my friends is the only reason that i've started to ...
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- Scottie replied May 9, 2008
bites — Abnormalone, i think that it would be best to close the first position. in the end, it really doesn't matter, but the first one could be quite negative against you or quite positive in your favour. it just seems like you would like to ...
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- Scottie replied May 9, 2008
geek — i'm a geek, if you are not a geek, then there is still time.

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- Scottie replied May 9, 2008
synthetic hedging — it appears to me that this system normalizes down to. waiting for a high. take the first entry long after the high after the ma's point up, and take all profits at the 50% area. wait for the next high and repeat. if it ...
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- Scottie replied May 9, 2008
now i'm going to really screw with your minds because i'm still baffled — TimeFreedom, if you were to open a long and a short at the same time, you would be net flat, so does the first entry really matter? i'm playing with synthetic hedging on ...
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- Scottie replied May 9, 2008
system is just math — Hayseed, that is an interesting question. i realized this when i made an entry long and it was really a mistake. i looked back and low an behold, i could have made that entry long prior to the 209 high. then i though, i ...
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- Scottie replied May 9, 2008
paint drying — Richard, i will set price alerts on the chart, because much of the time, the asian market sets the charts for an entry off the london session. if i miss an ehtry, i don't think it will matter for this system. i kind of wish i ...
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- Scottie replied May 9, 2008
mistakes are forgiven — abnormalone, the beauty of this system is that mistakes are forgiven and you can at least break even on them. it may take a month, but it will work. Scott
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- Scottie replied May 8, 2008
position sizing — hi Richard, if i'm not mistaken, in dreamliners system, he would start with a stop entry grid. the second position was initiated at 200 or greater down with one position that had no tp and above that was a grid of stop ...
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- Scottie replied May 8, 2008
Rainman, you are going to have to keep track of your trades still because you will always have 1 more position showing up than you are going to sell. so you will need to set up a spreadsheet showing what your entries were. you will have a position ...
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- Scottie replied May 8, 2008
synthetic hedging — Here's the spreadsheet that i'm using to keep track of the trades. this helps me keep track of trades in both directions. Scott
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- Scottie replied May 8, 2008
Moving averages settings — i'm using MT4. my moving averages are averages of the pivot. on mt4 that is moving average of the typical price HLC/3 i'm also using a weighted average. so my short is 11 period ma weighted and using the typical ...
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- Scottie replied May 8, 2008
lot size — Glen, I'm currently using $0.05 / $1000 of account size. that is 5 cents per pip for each $1000 account size. Scott
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- Scottie replied May 8, 2008
when did you enter the trade? — another cool thing. since i didn't actually have a buy stop, the "system" doesn't know whether i entered the trade at the front side of the move or the back side of the move. so i can just enter long. the top ...
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- Scottie replied May 8, 2008
position rather than individual trade — I look at this system whether it is the system as laid out by dreamliner or my rendition of it as really opening a position. as the market moves, i adjust that position whether it be long or short to ...
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- Scottie replied May 8, 2008
fictitious positions to trick your mind into making money — yes, you do have six points, but i don't buy the tops. those are just fictitious purchase areas that i use to average in with the lower entries to give me the profits from each one of ...
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- Scottie replied May 8, 2008
simple technical analysis strategy — TimeFreedom, i buy when the the price crosses the moving averages to the up side and the slope of the moving averages is up. not until then. so i don't take an entry every 200 pips arbitrarily. this keeps ...
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