I'm still trading — ...but you notice I didn't post a bar graph which includes September results. That's because it was the worst month since March. And October is worse even than March. Ouch. I've been struggling with a scaling in strategy, ...

Transition from Losing to Winning

Another non-answer answer — Regarding the original question.... There really isn't an answer. You have your method. You know how many dollars you need per week. You do the calculation. Some people go for 5 - 10 pips per day, they have a ...

How many pips does a "successful" trader collect weekly?

He's just saying that the fact you're trading 1 round lot implies that you don't have enough resolution (mathematical, not mental) to size your trades properly. Yes, there is an account size, and a risk percentage, that would result in a trade of ...

How many pips does a "successful" trader collect weekly?

Boat drinks — Either he went down in flames, or he's on the proverbial beach sipping drinks while his EA makes him rich. I hope for him and all of us it's the latter, but we know the odds.

do expert advisors really work

Different indicator — Try this one. It will give a few more signals. On the first one, it looks for a close with ADX and DI above 35, and the DI line had to be below 35 on the candle prior. This keeps the chart from filling up with arrows. On ...

iandekoker's 5 profit target trades

It might not actually be that big a mystery. Ask yourself, "who has a half a trillion to move at 8 am EST?" Probably not the japanese housewives, they would have done it while we slept. Probably not the Europeans..... And, the dollar getting ...

Anybody know why USD is strengthening?

Yes! We are saying the same thing.

Anybody know why USD is strengthening?

I'd think it would be the opposite. All these years the dollar has been weakening, I've made a killing on emerging markets, Canada, SE Asia, China, Europe, even Latin America. As the dollar weakens, these go up that much faster so you double dip - ...

How does Dow down make dollar go up?

I caught that one, too. Hey, I wanted to say THANKS again! I'm 5 for 5, 30 pips (I doubled up once). I might have to take down that indicator, this is too freaking easy.

iandekoker's 5 profit target trades

A good number of people are wondering why, that doesn't make us stupid. There's an article on FF front page called "US$ Strength? Reasons?" and they talk about all the fundies, gold dropped, oil dropped, dow dropped, yada yada, all things that have ...

Anybody know why USD is strengthening?

I'd rather double up based on high confidence and just take the 5. That'll put me at a whopping 20 cents a pip, I've hit the bigtime, lol.

iandekoker's 5 profit target trades

Sorry. This was supposed to be your journal. Why not start a thread in "trading systems?" I'll get my stuff out of here and put it over there.

iandekoker's 5 profit target trades

A Trade? — Looks like a good one coming up on the 15. MA cross about to occur Already have a green arrow, DI+ dipped below 35 and may come back up. If it does and we get the second green arrow, I call it an A+ trade (based on my limited ...

iandekoker's 5 profit target trades

Indicator — This looks like it's working OK, give it a try. Detach it to the "...experts\indicators" folder The only thing it looks for is a close with 2 lines above 35; the ADX and one or the other DI lines. To change the arrow colors: 1. ...

iandekoker's 5 profit target trades

Maybe they all want dollars to buy cheap stocks with today.

Anybody know why USD is strengthening?

Short — I just took a short. Like I mentioned earlier, the second peak is a very high probability trade. Even so, I took my usual small position. Note the arrows. Nifty indicator, eh? When I work out the bugs I'll post it. You'll have to ...

iandekoker's 5 profit target trades

Never mind, I got it. I didn't notice that you're trading pound and euro. That explains why my chart looks different!

iandekoker's 5 profit target trades

First I need to get my indicator to look like yours. My settings are as you say, but the output does not correlate. Could you attach the actual mq4 file that you are using? I manually backtested last night for a few hours, then accidently deleted ...

iandekoker's 5 profit target trades

Nice — Nice going! On the first chart, why did you not take the signal a few bars back from the one you took? And, on the second chart, there were two previous signals that were not taken, and one more after the trade that was not taken. The ...

iandekoker's 5 profit target trades

ADX discrepancy — OK, we have different ADX settings. The trades you mentioned in the other post did not meet these criteria. ADX 7 periods, applied to Close?

iandekoker's 5 profit target trades