General Statement — The settings as described in the first couple of posts had been changed for creating the EA. For both strategies (SUN and MOON), the TP is set to 150 Pips (no exit defined by the stochastic anymore) with a Trailing Stop of ...

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General Statement — Long time - no post here in my journal. But I'm back!!! As I was quite busy lately, I stopped posting to my trade journal, which is not a good thing. But hey - I was not lazy. With the excellent EA programming skills of a ...

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Pip Summary - Recent Version — Attached the recent Pip Summary version (04/03/07). We have a profit of 40 Pips based on the recent Blackcomb trade.

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Blackcomb Method - Recent Trade Update — A long Blackcomb signal has been triggered on GBP/USD yesterday at 1.9773. We set the TP1 at 1.9813 (40 Pips) and SL to 1.9663. Our TP1 of 40 Pips has been hit today. As the price is above the tunnel ...

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Blackcomb Method - Recent Trade Update — As I moved SL to BE after TP1 (+40 Pips) was hit for the recent Blackcomb trade, we were stopped out BE for the second half of the lot at 1.9654. Total Pip +40 ($80)!

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Blackcomb Method - Recent Trade Update — An update on the Blackcomb Strategy: Sell entry at GBP/USD 1.9654 with a SL at 1.9767 (based on ATR20) -> Lot 0.2 (max. risk of 2%) -> refer to the attached chart. TP1 is 40 Pips (got hit today -> SL to ...

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Pip Summary -Recent Version — Attached the recent Pip Summary version (03/23/07). We were stopped out of our SUN trade: -86 Pips. Have fun ...

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Blackcomb Method - Recent Trade Update — We were stopped out of our Blackcomb trade on March 14. However, the TSI indicator kept us in the trade quite nicely and we reached the tunnel on March 16. For the next trade, I will take profit at 40 ...

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Pip Summary - Recent Version — Attached the recent Pip Summary version (03/18/07). Have fun !

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SUN Method - Recent Trade Update — There is a sell signal according to the SUN method in GBP/USD at 1.9417. According to the rules, the SL is at 1.9503 (recent swing high). I take 0.2 lots to be in line with 2% risk of our equity ($ 10'000).

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MOON Method - Recent Trade Update — The MOON trade as described in post #15 was closed on 03/15 at 1.9364 as the 80 level was reached. This trade gained +35 Pips, which results in a PnL of $70. I'm waiting for another MOON trade to take.

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MOON H4 - Recent Trade Update — As I switched to H4 charts for the SUN and MOON trading strategies, I attached the current MOON trade for this shorter time frame (Entry: 1.9329; SL: 1.9218; Lot: 0.2). As soon as this trade is closed (close of ...

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General Update — I will start applying the SUN and MOON methods on 4 hour charts (ccy: GBP/USD). I created a pip summary to track the PnL of the trades (incl. Blackcomb trades) and will update it EOD (if any trades occurred). Have fun!

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Blackcomb Strategy - TSI Indicator — In case someone would like to have the TSI Osc Indicator I use for my Blackcomb Strategy... here we go:

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Blackcomb Strategy - Recent Trade Update — Blackcomb Strategy: The Tunnel (where the exit signal for the recent trade is) has been almost reached today. I suggest to apply a split of the TP levels i.e. take 1 lot (or whatever) at 40 Pips as ...

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Blackcomb Strategy - Recent Trade Update — No updates on SUN or MOON trades. But we have a new entry signal for the Blackcomb Strategy: Buy Entry at 1.9317. SL at 1.9218 (ATR based). TP at around 1.9475 (Tunnel) -> (please also check out the ...

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Blackcomb Strategy — As the SUN and MOON trades do not show up on a regular basis, I'm also gonna use this trading journal for keeping track of my Blackcomb Strategy trades (I love to invent names for strategies . The strategy is based on ...

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MOON Method - Recent Trade Update — Finally, I'm able to update my trading journal, which is great !!! In the last couple of weeks, we had two MOON trades: BUY Entry February 14, 2007: As we had a breakout of a triangle formation in ...

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Backtesting / Trading Platform — Hi Jimmywa, First of all, thank you very much for posting to my trading journal and your interest in these strategies. Frankly, I haven't had time to backtest these two strategies very thouroughly due to my ...

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MOON Method - Recent Trade Update — In our recent MOON trade (refer to post #5), we can see a nice symmetrical triangle setup (apparently you need two touches of the trendlines), which has just been broken to the upside. As the trend before ...

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