ok thanks Peter i'll ask there

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question regarding experts — i know nothing about ea's, i have some basic questions it seems i have turn on one , on demo account i'm quite sure it will make trades BUT i'm wondering if i turn off mt4 will it still work? because for expample ...

Help for Newbies (Discussion Thread)

ace i think i know what idea can it be. it happens like once a 2 months or once a 6 weeks am i right?

4H Box Breakout

what period to backtest — i think large period like 5 or more years can give a broad view of how strategy is working in different conditions which gives you better look at this system its weak points etc but on the other hand as previously ...

4H Box Breakout

shiko ok there is R:R but there is also ratio of winning/losing trades and setting SL@50% will definetly increase number of losing trades the question is in what degree, of course it doesnt have to mean less profits i dont know i havn't tested that ...

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shiko is that rule SL=50% of box working , how was it on history, i assume u have checked that if you're going live and: "I told from the very start that if we have 1 loss no more trading for the week. " and this rule? in first post there is stated ...

4H Box Breakout

152.48 was my HIGH 150.79 was my LOW 20p buffer + 12 spread = 169p box one of polish brokers xtb i'm playing demo now, from about $1,5k half is gone (but long is still open , 40p to SL left though) with that amount of money i would have to use micro ...

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Bobcat, thanks. thread is not too bad, it works how it should work - brainstorm, not everything has to make sense but... one thought leads to another and the first post always can be modyfied if there's real improvement (proved on history) and i ...

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question to all — how many positions do you people open if there are 4 tp levels? i saw that some of you 2 - but isn't it a good idea to set 4 pending orders for each tp level? This is how I understood this strategy. I'm reading since abou ...

4H Box Breakout

just look at H1 and get the four candles — in my case there is NO WAY to form a right box looking at 4H chart i dont know if that was mentioned before, that it is possible, i have to look at 1H chart to get 4 candles, if somebody dont know ...

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i'm a bit surprised that first candle on 4H timeframe lasts one hour i 've done 2 years backtest, but never watch it live i'm gmt+1 (central europe) and the first candle just formed, now the second is forming sorry for that infant silly question on ...

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returns — is that strategy profitable? could somebody give a sense how profitable is it, i dont get idea of scalping at all, but its interesting, what can be daily average return/loss?

C4 Scalping

Is that strategy very risky?

C4 Scalping

One very basic question As I read about rules of this system I understood that when you use 4 take profit levels you have to open 0.4 lot at least and with every TP level hit you close 1/4 of your trade. That means also when price is breaking BE, ...

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danno96, many thanks to you for your work

4H Box Breakout

I honestly hope the results will be similar when i place my first trade , that will be in september though would be nice to get 500 pips for a good start Ace wrote: I tested back until the start of the year. And placing stop to BE gave these ...

4H Box Breakout

Wasn't that done before? — I think i will post it by tuesday , it doesn't look good for 08-2007-02.2008 it's a big loss, bigger than on gbp/usd above , huge. but i may have done this on a wrong assumption, it should be checked on H1 in some ...

4H Box Breakout

Here are the results for the last 2 years for gbpusd with this (original) strategy. I hope it is better for GBPJPY (i will do the same for this pair soon) but with no buffer on GBPUSD the risk seems to be lower than reward anyway.

4H Box Breakout

firstly, thanks very much for the idea of Big dog breakout strrategy i've already checked last two months with this (i mean backtesting) and depending only on that two months I think when there is ranging market, and price doesn't touch low or high ...

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