Let me draw your attention to the search function at the top of the page and the bounty of pointless conjecture on which EMA to use. url

What EMA I should use?

You could try also asking this question on the kreslik forums, they are right into their Neoticker & C#.

Can anyone here code in C#?

Great post, at the risk of sounding like a broken record I will paraphrase you, what you are saying is that you need a mathematical edge, or else no amount of randomness/non-randomness, MM & psychology is going to save you.

Random Market vs Set Expectancy

I tried this as an MT4 EA, it didn't work, it's not that easy. Somebody on another forum suggested that the markets may have changed in nature post that book getting written, I think it's more likely he never tried it. Even a 1% edge is a holy ...

van tharp's random entry system

You don't know how many times I've seen the type of thing in back testing results, the hairs on the back of your neck stand up, you start reaching for the phone to tell the boss where to stick his job... People had told me that parameter mining was ...

Newbies go here...

I prefer the ouija board myself, works great in a trend, for ranging markets I use tea leaves with pagen sacrifice for confirmation.

Trading Psychology is BS

We seem to be veering more toward the term 'discipline', which I think is a far more appropriate term than 'trading psychology', I notice that posters who try and define this term end up chugging in ever decreasing circles. Discipline is of course a ...

Trading Psychology is BS

I not sure of the point your trying to make. What inspired this thread was a comment on another thread, paraphrasing 'good psychology will make this into a profitable system', I say BS. Also, before anybody else gets their tits all a twist, it's a ...

Trading Psychology is BS

Here is a thought, are we confusing 'trading psychology' with 'problem solving ability'?

Trading Psychology is BS

These are the sort of things I would try to think though before using real money and as such I would view them as part of having a comprehensive plan of attack.

Trading Psychology is BS

What you do is turn the system off and analyze what has happened, I'm still failing to see what that has to do with my state of mind.

Trading Psychology is BS

Complex stock hedging was what most the the quant funds were doing before they got 'smoked' at the end of last year.

How does exactly hedging work?

It looks like you have the potential to be FF's Jack Hershey.

Trading Psychology is BS

I've been trading live for about 3 years and no I don't make a living off it, but do make profit, it's taken me all this time just to get to the small profit stage. I do use automatic systems. I derive my confidence in what I do by making sure I ...

Trading Psychology is BS

Can you expand on what you mean here?

Trading Psychology is BS

I take your point, but I think the definition of 'psychology' is becoming a bit blurred, we all know the situation which you describe, the 'newb revenge trade', but is that psychology or inexperience?

Trading Psychology is BS

I my view, you are basically correct. We search for a method, not a psychology.

Trading Psychology is BS

I would contend this should be part of your system, not part of your psychology.

Trading Psychology is BS

The forex market is tough to trade because it's super efficient, therefore they lower the price of entry to keep a constant supply of newbs to make money for the bucket shops. Other markets such as futures and stocks are not as mickey mouse, but the ...

Is forex the best investment?