Problem is, just like your EAs, sometimes it works and sometimes it don't. People have a winning streak and post similar things to what you have (I've done it myself), funny thing is we never hear about how the new Ferrari drives, which you would ...

Whats the Fuss!

In the classic words of Rainer Wolfcastle, 'Get a room boys'.

Statistical analysis fallacy

Check out this url , maybe slightly heavy going for the beginner but worth a look.

Probability Question

Well that is the definition of an edge, basically that you are going to get enough positive outcomes due to none random behavior to give yourself a positive expectancy in the long run, even then nothing is guaranteed. For example, I have 335 trades ...

Probability Question

The problem with this is defining the probabilities for the single day, I think it is safe to simplify it to one trade per day, going randomly long and short does not increase the odds of your t/p being hit. If your t/p is twice as big as your s/l, ...

Probability Question

Your sarcasm is becoming quote entertaining

springing back towards an MA

That's cool, I read the first post and I just couldn't stop the overaggressive nerd part of my brain which has been damaged by one to many crappy IT projects kicking into action

Programming and Software

One thing to keep in mind is that it is one thing to learn the basic syntax of a particular language and quite another to write bullet proof, scalable trading software. If you are serous about taking the programming thing the whole way I would ...

Programming and Software

Hi Justin, I was wondering if you could provide any insight into what is going on with the new Navigator (and SDK) chart/history functions, this feature has now been non-functional for nearly a week, yet I can't get peep out of support beyond ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

3/11 people so far have been able to read the question. Picking though some of the crap which has been posted so far, an important 'noob' rule occurred to me which is, if anyone wants money in turn for teaching or 'resource', run a mile, they have ...

A Good Forex Trading Book For A Noob

I would actually suggest 'the c programming language', books on c++ will be cluttered with c++ stuff which is not applicable to mql (classes, templates, stl), mql is much closer to c than c++.

Is This Tutorial Wrong ?

"Day Trading the Currency Market", explains the basic terminology well, but is basically useless beyond that. "Way of the Turtle", is a good introduction to system building.

A Good Forex Trading Book For A Noob

Market profile is based on trading volume, so using it with forex is useless given that we don't see the overall market volume. I'll repeat this at post 100 or something.

About market profile?

Why don't you just let a given strategies performance tell you what the market is doing?

Determining Trending vs. Consolidating

How's that working out for you?

TA self fullfilled prophecies... what a joke.

Good post, history repeats over and over, nobody learns, everybody is right, everybody else is wrong. As I said before the basic randomness is easy to analyze with basic mathematical tools, yet everybody just ignores this 800lb Gorilla...sod this, ...

TA self fullfilled prophecies... what a joke.

Indeed!

Why Fibonacci Retracements are Bullocks

Given the amount of lines on that chart, some of the price extrema are bound to match up, a better question might be, how many don't?

Why Fibonacci Retracements are Bullocks

There is nothing new under the sun here, scale up when times are good, scale back when they are bad. Here is one approach url

For the New Year - An edge