One thing you might not have thought about: Your SL is 1/2 your TP, so you will stop out twice as much as TPing in a random market. And you will pay spread on each trade.

Probability Question

I think anyone serious about EA trading is crazy not to use global variables (or at least text files.) They are powerful.

MT4 global variables: my new best friend

whitegoodman is really saying he doesn't believe that people should be allowed to have a different point of view than the majority.

Phillip's late night dinner table

daily is the highest timeframe available for testing. you have to code logic into the EA like this: int day; int init() { day = DayOfWeek(TimeCurrent()); } int start() { if(DayOfWeek(TimeCurrent())!=day) { day = DayOfWeek(TimeCurrent()); // do ...

Backtesting a weekly EA

look at ones that are ECN based.

Forex Robots

Of course I will promote the money management I came up with from scratch. url I don't believe in Kelly because it is impossible to quantify probability of setups with chart patterns. The method simply makes the most sense for aggressively ...

looking to build aggressive MM strategy

That thread is excellent IMHO. Hello Mikkom... I wrote those EAs 10 months ago, and don't have them handy ATM. Trying to fry a whale of an EA right now.... extremely robust code because several K will be at risk..... Perhaps I will check into it at ...

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I have a different solution, mrgreen. I use a demo account and terranin's MT4 account copier into an MT4 supported ECN. Now this is very good for non-scalping trades.... But here's the catch: Because the two feeds will be different much of the time, ...

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Show us the evidence that Joel is an experienced trader. As for staying out these past few months.... I like tight trends on the EURUSD.... too much volatility stops me out and gives me too many signals. For example (and this is not one of my ...

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To all people trading FS these past few months... I am very interested in how you did from September 1, 2008 through the present. Can you speak in terms of pips achieved (broken out by pair) and what your pip drawdowns were? We all have different ...

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Let's hit the center of the bullseye. The problem is recomputation. You don't want your EA wasting CPU cycles by having to go back 3000 bars repeatedly. How efficient is MT4 with finding iClose[3000]? I don't know what is going on under the hood. ...

CAN such a thing be coded?...

This thread has turned into a good one!

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Did you ever play the computer game Lemmings? Deathbait and I did not want to see you walking off the cliff.... that's why we've kindly warned everyone. By the way, I don't know why you've brought up the website again. We've already determined that ...

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You know what? I'm through with this thread. This all started when I ran my own backtests, and concluded this strategy wasn't right FOR ME. (Please read my first few posts) I am not going to expend effort trashing Joel. William, to answer your ...

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Funny you bring this up, Ron. An array was my first thought for a solution, too.... The answer is an Abstract Data Type Circular Queue implemented with an array.... So if you are concerned only with 3000 bars, you place 3000 slots in the array and ...

CAN such a thing be coded?...

www.infiniteyield.com is Joel's site, and the title is "Dangerous Secrets that Guarantee AUTOMATIC Forex Profits" .... You will see the One Night Stand backtest....

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Who would you be referring to in this thread? Please, don't be coy.

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url What is the first word you see highlighted in gigantic red letters in the title of the site? Care to retract your statement about my inaccuracies? Jtrade, please do not preach to me. I have been here a year longer than you have. I have a ...

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