Moving Averages — I’ll start with an easy one, moving averages. What is a moving average? Let’s say we have a series of numbers, and we want a 10 number moving average. For a 10 number moving average, at any point in the sequence you simply ...

Understanding Indicators

Welcome, and good luck to you! I would say you have a very good start, better than most, at becoming a successful trader. Most learn to manage risk the hard, painful way. You're already there.

Hello from a Noob

Never give up — Pip Pirate said it very well. I could go on and on, and sometimes do. People who would try to trade for a living are usually high-spirited, entreprenureal, intelligent, confident types. (I might get a lot of argument on the ...

Who/WHAT do you trust?

I'm not sure exactly what your intention is, but I just put "Ask" in for buy price, or "bid" for sell. Why the "MarketInfo.." etc? I'd start by changing that and see what happens. Then I'd comment out the OrderSend for the CHF and see if I get the ...

So simple... Why doesn't it work

If you are long, this essentially puts them short if they hold the other side of the trade. So they have to go long to hedge, to offset their short. Or, you can look at it as, once so many longs were taken against them, they would pass along some or ...

Warning to Carry Traders (Perfect Hedge)

How'd you set that up?

Little and Often Makes Much

What an excellent article!

Improving Your Trading Performance: The Single Most Important Step You Can Take

I must have missed something here. On 5/16, afternoon, after reading your thread, I bot EUR/USD and USD/CHF in a demo account. They've been in the red ever since, right now about $30 per mini lot.

Need Help Programming EA

If it takes 1.5 billion volume, then I can't move the market. I doubt there are too many readers on here that trade 15,000 full standard lots.

Any use for stop hunting?

I generally place it as you suggest, 10 or 15 on the other side of S/R, and agree that's the way to do it. But, that's exactly where they usually get hit. After all, that's where tech traders place them, and the stop hunters know that's exactly ...

Any use for stop hunting?

Oh yeah, — And, BTW, if there IS a Holy Grail, I'm sure a lot of people would love to hear about it! I might even start liking you and I'd hate to have to do that.

People who don't know why it works..

I'll accept your changing your statement as your admitting you're wrong. Now you say "they look almost exactly the same" instead of "they are exactly the same". I'll buy that they look nearly the same in many spots. We can all see you're confused, ...

People who don't know why it works..

Why don't we stick to the subject? You like to call everyone stupid, that's your problem. You made a statement without thinking it through or checking it out, and a noob caught you. Now, you could admit you were wrong, take a look, and maybe learn ...

People who don't know why it works..

Advice doesn't have to be "sage", grasshopper. The advice is, if you don't have positive things to say, or things that help, STFU.

People who don't know why it works..

And you can't look at a chart. I still see places where one goes up and the other goes down, and vice versa, ON THE CHART YOU POSTED. If you simply looked at how they were calculated, you wouldn't make such an inane statement that they were exactly ...

People who don't know why it works..

Alright Taters! NEWBIES UNITE! TIME FOR THE REVOLUTION! Get your torches and pitchforks at Home Depot or Lowes, meet me here at midnight, we'll have a few hours before the European session. These guys need to remember there's a LOT more ...

People who don't know why it works..

I may be mistaken, but I'm pretty sure this will give you %R of the Stochastic. If that's what you want, good. If you want %R of price, I think you have to drag it onto the graph and let it make its own window.

help with custom indicator

Then there's the third kind, which is by far the worst: those who like to speak in riddles and give false information. The more people they can confuse and befuddle, the more superior they feel. They think of themselves as some sort of ...

People who don't know why it works..

I've been lazy. I had a system that worked well the first few days, so I programmed indicators to sound an alert whenever a setup occurred. That got me by for the last month or so, and I haven't been working too hard at trading. Sleep, play, go off ...

Transition from Losing to Winning