Very well put, and I suspect probably very close to the truth. It's interesting how many folk here seem to cling desperately to their beliefs, and react indignantly if challenged. There is more than one profitable way to trade, and different, even ...

Why Fibonacci Retracements are Bullocks

My 2c worth...... — I realize that the original post is a few months old now. The first prerequisite is that your approach (entries and exits) gives you some kind of long-term edge. Otherwise you’ll end up losing - no matter what MM you use, ...

Real - Trading for a living

Constin, thanks for the links. P&F is another way of summarizing data, and filtering out 'noise'. The same kind of thing can be achieved by using moving averages (although these don't show candle highs and lows) and other 'trend following' ...

Trading with "Point And Figure"

Sounds like you are very well organized in both your plan, and your implementation. Excellent. And wow, I just noticed the number of posts that you've made. I thought that when I passed 1,000 I was guilty of spending way too much time on ...

Best single characteristic of a trader?

Let's just agree to differ..... — In my post I was trying to explain why entries are more important - at least to me - than exits, MM and psychology. Hence I don’t understand why you say that you totally agree with me. It’s perfectly OK to ...

Best single characteristic of a trader?

Agreed. I suspect that the "2% rule" was devised as a safe and simple approach for newbies. The higher expectancy/edge/profit factor is, the higher position sizes one can justifiably use, even arguably moving away from fixed fractional. A Monte ...

For the New Year - An edge

Hi Tom, Just allowing myself a little recreational read/write time over the holiday break. Then it's back to some real work, and I must again put the forum behind me. Spending several hours a day here meant that nothing else was getting done. Hope ...

Best single characteristic of a trader?

Effective entries are very important — This must be about the 99th time I’ve posted this type of message. It’s addressed to all of those well-meaning folk who believe that: -- you can succeed in forex with MM and discipline alone -- the system ...

Best single characteristic of a trader?

Excellent posts by Topherhk88 and Gaston! — Just noticed this thread. I'm allowing myself a little recreational read/write time over the Xmas break. I too would like to say that the posts by Topherhk88 (#53,#72) and Gaston (#55,#73) are ...

Dead end...

This Q has been answered many times before. Solution here - see the "Attaching indicators to indicators outside of the main price chart" section in post #1.

how to drop a moving average on the RSI?

Razzle, I totally agree with you. why do people still continue to spread such ridiculous rumours ? Sorry if this sounds either harsh or conceited, and I'm not targeting anybody in particular, but if 95% of (would-be) traders supposedly lose, then ...

For the New Year - An edge

Understand the math behind the indicators — Summing (or averaging) process equates to integral calculus and causes inertia, or lag. Examples: MAs, Heikin-Ashi candles, longer timeframe candles, P&F charts. The more historical points summed, ...

Trading MACD Divergence

Thank you the file deletion and loading of your new calendar events file did work I just need to work on converting the time zones appropriately. Fixing the time shift isn't as difficult as it seems. I look for an obvious price spike (e.g. non-farm ...

FFcal - Plot News indicator

I've never used Comodo BOClean. Most virus checkers look for 'signature strings', i.e. a set of machine-language instructions within an executable program that looks like it might be attempting to do something suspicious. If it finds one, it checks ...

FFcal - Plot News indicator

Perhaps try the following, to clear out the Events History database, and start over: 1. Run My Computer/Windows Explorer (or whatever file manager you use), and go to the folder where you originally unzipped Plot_News. There should be files there ...

FFcal - Plot News indicator

Re the Trojan Horse: This is the first report that I'm aware of, that WGET.EXE has failed any kind of virus check. If you suspect that the version of WGET.EXE in the ZIP file is bad, you can download it from either here or here instead. Are you guys ...

FFcal - Plot News indicator

Just in case anybody's still using Plot_News, and has noticed no news being plotted since Dec 16, here is the reason and the fix. There's a news item on Dec 16 called "Federal Funds Rate" which has bad data in the "Actual field": <0.25 Press F9, ...

FFcal - Plot News indicator

Just stopped by, couldn’t resist posting on this topic. "You see, a successful manual system identifies and captures an edge in the market and capitalizes on it. Building such a system is extremely difficult, and therefore the percentage of ...

Do you believe in EA trading?

I'm not trying to flame, sorry if it came across that way. It's just that, despite all of 'beat the casino' systems being sold, none of them work (at least, all of those that I've taken the time to examine). I strongly suspect that's because the ...

an old song with a new rythym

Here we go again........... — Well, I just dropped by quickly to check my PMs, but I couldn't resist replying to this post. Let's just say that if there was any MM-based system capable of indefinitely beating the casinos (or forex), then every ...

an old song with a new rythym