To andante9: I manually trade and just shorted the cable with a 100 pip SL & TP; we shall see how it goes. edit: woke up this morning with +100 pips. E=1.8308, TP=1.8208(hit), SL=1.8408 And i had a godd nights sleep too!

AshFX Daily

Good post OZ, we need reminders like this to point out the pitfalls. I think if I saw the possibility of a 50 to 100 pip move I would use a trailing stop or keep moving the SL after every 15 pip move. Just a suggestion. p.

Nomoretoxic's breakout

anyone — When placing the Limit orders, do you put a time-to-elapse period along with the order? Hopefully we will get 2 or 3 various answers. Thanks to all for the inputs, p.

NY Break Out

Chart patterns — I cannot find a consistent chart pattern that I can use within any timeframe that will produce consistent profits. Lots of whipsaws even in longer TF. Guess this is not an indicator I can be successful with (but I do like the ...

Any Bollinger Band Fans?

Thanks FXSurfer — I have both a live and demo acct with Oanda - gotta love those sreads. I like your ideas as they can be applied to O. and just maybe I don't have to fool with MT4. I have attended an IBFX meeting and a webinar featuring Rob ...

Any Bollinger Band Fans?

Thanks FXSurfer — Thank you for the prompt reply but for this MT4 noob you opened up a whole 'nother bunch of questions. When you get the time would you explain or post the setup for range bars? The other parameters I think I can get from the ...

Any Bollinger Band Fans?

Can't quite make out your PSAR and Boll. Band settings; mind sharing? p. Edit: I should have asked too, what TF do you favor?

Any Bollinger Band Fans?

Most definitely, in fact you can have both showing at the same time in the same frame.

Show profit in pips instead of dollar with oanda?

Wow — Even I can understand this strategy. Well written, well explained, and you use the word "strategy" and not "system". Semantics on my part maybe but we are in a chess game re. forex. Now to test for win/loss profitability. Many thanks, p.

7am-9am Big Dog USD Breakout Strategy

I do the same thing; thankfully we are not shot by firing squad at sunrise. And many thanks to the vets that have put up with my questions through the year. p

Trend Finder Daily

relaxed — What a relaxed, simple trading strategy. I'm trading the 4H with confirmation of the 1H and have been a little too early removing profitable trades but it sure is fun to have profitable trades. I will reread Dax's posts as there are ...

Simple 5 / 8 moving average crossover

Good going; I was successful until the last 2 trades - pushed too hard and gave it all back. But the EMAs have helped me spot better trades so I should get better with practice. thanks all, p.

X50 - M5 trend following

k2kv — The mas are EMAs, 5 & 8? edit: I missed that great run too.l

X50 - M5 trend following

Yesterday a.m. I got killed, this a.m. I scalped some profits. I can see that I cannot trade live with IBFX with this strategy as the spreads are too big. i am using Oanda for the trades and most times see a 3-4 pip difference in the spread between ...

X50 - M5 trend following

Stitch — It does work! Apparently my computer needs more than a 1-2 minute shutdown of MT4 to load a custom indicator. Got up this morning and there it was. Thank you for your help, p.

X50 - M5 trend following

Thanks for the prompt reply stitch, I'll try it right now. p it didn't work

X50 - M5 trend following

problem — I absolutely cannot get the Absolute Strength indicator to load on to the chart. I can get its icon on the desktop but that's it. 3 calls to IBFX didn't get it to work. Any ideas? And would load the "template" link in post #1 load ...

X50 - M5 trend following

me too — Thanks for the help people, I was having the same problem. p

help, help, help (templates)

will try it — I thank everyone for their posts, I have been reading this thread for the last 3 hours and am very interested. It appears that the indicators in post #1 are still very valid and I will demo them. I don't have a lot of luck ...

X50 - M5 trend following

Anyone — Is anyone using this during the NY session? PIPology's trading times would be impossible for me so just wondering if any 8am NY traders are having success with this strategy. Thanks for sharing, p.

PIPologist daily strategy