Sorry, I read your post wrong, I thought your question was 'when are the less volatile periods in the year', but upon re-reading you are actually asking a slightly different question, you are asking for specific dates of inactive periods which is ...

Boring Periods of year in Forex !

Open MT4, put a ATR(50) on a daily chart, zoom out, I'm sure you will catch the basic pattern.

Boring Periods of year in Forex !

Some nice stuff here that you don't usually see on FF, no wonder the thread died

One Way to Develop a Winning System

LOL, shit! I didn't look at the date Hopefully he figured it out for himself.

Exit Strategy for review

Using preset pip values for exits is not going to work but... Who cares what we think of your exit? Go and test it! This will be much more informative than a bunch of random opinion.

Exit Strategy for review

The same could be said about just about anything really.

trading with fundamentals is the only way to go

What is your typical trade frequency for your generated strategies?

Systematic trading

I wasn't having a go at you in particular, sorry if it came across that way. It was meant as a generalized 'opinion'

trading with fundamentals is the only way to go

One can go back and forth on this subject to no avail, for every successful technical trader there is supposedly a successful fundamentals trader, all that matters is that a re-creatable approach works, be this technical analyses or tea leaves is ...

trading with fundamentals is the only way to go

Cheers, that will do the trick! (I also notice the implementation is much simpler). The trick is searching for 'DMI' as opposed to 'ADX'.

Correct ADX for MT4.

To walk forward basically means splitting up you data into intervals and then processing them in such a way that you only test on unseen data. Completely arbitrary example: Let's say you have 5 years data (2000 - 2005), you have decided that you ...

Systematic trading

Have you tried a 'walk forward' approach? That should give you a pretty good idea about how things are going to hold up, you would also be able to experiment with different sized validation intervals, though you won't have as much data for a ...

Systematic trading

I did ask, because you also get some pretty terrible misprints from time to time, their stock answer is 'we don't filter our providers quotes'. On the upside the quote filtering on my ATS is pretty good now!

Systematic trading

It is stat arb in a sense, as in the ideas are based on deviations from a statistical correct price, but only on a single market at this point. With multi-market stat arb I found that the was the old curse of curve fitting came back to haunt me. It ...

Systematic trading

I tried it on MB, the deviations were not big enough to overcome transaction costs. The MB stream also sometimes crosses (bid > ask) to a degree which will overcome transaction costs, however you cannot trade these quotes (something to keep in mind ...

Systematic trading

Nice explanation, this also happens on smaller time-frames, people chase momentum, the price stalls for lack of buyers, down she goes! AKA mean reversion.

Contrarian trading

My thoughts exactly.

Systematic trading

Apparently the scenes such as the 'trading with beer in hand' didn't go down too well with investors, hence his reluctance to see it released.

1987 Trader: Documentary about Paul tudor jones