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Went live this week for the first time in a while

From one David to another......... — Thanks for the feedback. NCI will be implemented in the next release (v 1.33), which I hope to complete this coming week.

FFcal - Plot News indicator

Version 1.32 is now available.......... — This can be downloaded from post #1 in this thread. Full installation instructions can be found there also. Version 1.32 does the following: 1. Fixes all known problems with the HTML entites &....; ...

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Let's see if I understand what you're saying: An approach such as shorting rallies in a falling Euro is capable of delivering a workable edge, and one that will potentially last indefinitely, but every positive expectancy activity (e.g. a 55/45 ...

Admit it - your profits are based on luck

Craig, your point that it's possible to profit indefinitely by continual adaptation might well be valid. But I was merely attempting to summarize what I saw as being the two opposing majority positions held in this thread. Tdion, FX-Petra et al ...

Admit it - your profits are based on luck

Some excellent discussion in this thread. If I may attempt to cut to the chase, I see two distinct schools of thought here: School #1 is saying something along the lines of "if you were as knowledgeable and/or experienced as I am, you would have ...

Admit it - your profits are based on luck

I think that when in F9 mode if you make a change to a line of data it is just changed in the database file? Yes, this is correct. THus you need to do something to get that written to the news.csv file. I think pressing enter on the F5 screen is ...

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Tom, I suggest that what could be done is to have the James16 gurus quantify (in potentially programmable terms) the criteria as to what is a 'suitable quality' daily pin bar. Then we would backtest on EURUSD,D1 using 'vanilla' time-based exit ...

Admit it - your profits are based on luck

Hi Kent, As you know, I originally developed Plot_News for my own use, but decided to share it here, and it's grown progressively as I've implemented user requests. If post #1, or the number of functions available in the product, is daunting, that's ...

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Bird, I see it slightly differently. I take full responsibility for how accurately and consistently I trade my plan, but whether individual trades turn out to be wins or losses falls outside of my control. I can't predict the market with anything ...

Admit it - your profits are based on luck

Many thanks for this fix, Kent. Ultimately, I'd prefer to make the fix at source, since it would mean that the (fixed) data in the News History database will match the data that's being plotted on the MT4 charts. However, it may be some time until I ...

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Chris, I agree that ill-discipline will deplete an account more quickly than an unprofitable strategy/approach/method (and can therefore mask the latter), but - respectfully - I think you're putting the cart before the horse. Without a profitable ...

CTA e-book on Trading Psychology

Everybody has access to much the same info, and it's a zero (actually negative) sum game.

Why are YOU not profitable ?

Reply to your last two posts — Pippi, Oops, looks like I blundered with the data in the 'Xmas gift' ZIP. Sorry about that. The ZIP attached to this post should contain all news events from 1/1/2006 thru 1/30/2009, with the Federal Funds data ...

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Fair enough, you guys are entitled to your opinions. My comments were meant to be general in their nature, and in hindsight I probably got way off topic, and also posted them in the wrong thread. I apologize for that. Phreddy, IMHO your comment ...

Tkpower8 ATM

Ingot, I read Dr Jones' 'The Trading Game' book maybe 4-5 years ago; looks like I should dig out my copy and re-read. My memory is a little hazy, but I think the conclusion I came to re Fixed Ratio sizing was that, looking past its sophisticated ...

looking to build aggressive MM strategy

These are not "my own beliefs". MM and expectancy are basic concepts in probability theory. Why pay for education that's freely available using an internet search engine? Did you download and try the spreadsheets in the links in my previous post ...

First-Strike & One-Night-Stand users, show yourself and your mods, if you dare!!!

Just a quick aside, I wouldn't pay 10 cents for any position sizing algorithm. Why? Because ultimately, all MM algorithms are created equal. (For an explanation, see my post here, and/or download any of the Excel spreadsheets from posts #31, #32 and ...

First-Strike & One-Night-Stand users, show yourself and your mods, if you dare!!!

I’m not trying to takes sides, or target anybody in particular, but I want to tackle what I see as being ignorance in some of the earlier posts in this (now binned) thread. I consider it a privilege to post on this forum, free of charge. Hosting and ...

Tkpower8 ATM

Many thanks for the excellent insights. One concept that I learned from Joel's blog is that of aggregating edges. If, for example, Monday's initial breakout (as captured by First Strike) does give a >50% clue as to likely direction for the rest of ...

First-Strike & One-Night-Stand users, show yourself and your mods, if you dare!!!