Yes, it is difficult to set an exact figure for the trailing stop which is why possibly the atr would be better. I don't know what multiple of atr I would want to trail by, maybe just 1 times ATR? I'll do some testing and report back.

Quick and Dirty EOD

Ok, from the top. Use TS? Use trailing stop yes or no? This is the option we want so put true. Use Close ma? Close if the ma is breached yes or no? Yes, I use this so true. Use Close HA? Close if the heiken ashi candle changes colour yes or no? I ...

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Yes but eurgbp is struck off and not sure about the cad pairs either at the moment.

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Thanks. Latest system update starts here url

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An ex4 file will appear grey because you cannot modify it, it is set by the coder and that is that. An mq4 file is adjustable by the user and so appears coloured. You can alter the code to make it do what you want it to do. I believe the difference ...

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Oil pulling back more strongly than the others. Getting close to the lower channel, maybe will stop out in the next few days? S and p 500 touched the lower channel today too and yet has snapped straight back up. Interesting to watch. I've been in ...

Trend following system results

My candle closes at 12 midnight GMT. Not sure how that relates to your time but it would be easy to find out on the net. In the long run it really doesn't matter what time your candle closes because although you will get slightly different signals ...

Quick and Dirty EOD

I'm not sure where you are getting that from? Smooth and decisive are not the same thing. Quite often the price can pull back quite gently but the heiken ashi candles will all stay the same colour and the stochastics will be moving smoothly and then ...

Swing trading with heiken ashi and stochs

I wouldn't put it quite like that, there is some thought behind it, but yes the choice of any figure is only based on experience of what should be enough and so could be said to be arbitrary. I have just had the trailing EA altered to trail by a ...

Quick and Dirty EOD

The first one, when the price moves back against the trend.

Swing trading with heiken ashi and stochs

Not looking too bad at the moment, just over 300 pips up.

Quick and Dirty EOD

Eurusd doing ok this morning, audusd and nzdusd pulling back. Euraud and eurnzd the same. I'm still a fair number of pips up and no action required today so I will just leave it along to do what it wants to do.

Quick and Dirty EOD

Attached to the above post. You will always give some back with a trend following system such as this but in the long run you will have bigger winners than losers. The point of the system is to wait for the choppiness around the ma to occur and for ...

Quick and Dirty EOD

Yes, noted.

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Eurgbp is generally less volatile so 50 pips would be enough but it didn't work out that way. Removed that pair now anyway as it is a little too choppy for our purposes.

Quick and Dirty EOD

Tradestar1 is right, eurgbp is not as smooth. I've got audcad and nzdcad too but not sure about those yet. Here is the EA. I use Vantage FX UK.

Quick and Dirty EOD

At the moment I don't believe there is any benefit to using discretion with this type of system. I notice you are using some pairs in your trading that I have found to not be as profitable as others. Perhaps you need to do a little more backtesting ...

Trend following system results

Yep, I've gone off the idea of watching news too much, even rate decisions. I can only see a cut if anything anyway which will be a hard drop.

Quick and Dirty EOD

Hello. I've seen your journal and really impressed with the demo trading, not so much with the live though I decided which pairs/instruments I would trade and the stop loss and trailing parameters through hours and hours of backtesting. I ...

Trend following system results

You are right to an extent, the stochs are just a confirming tool but also it gives you information about the smoothness of the pullback. The stochs are more sensitive to choppiness and can sometimes warn you away from an indecisive market.

Swing trading with heiken ashi and stochs