Are you being realistic? — Another post I made in that thread: Unrealistically high expectations? Quote: Originally Posted by TraderT image Mechanical Trade Ideas 1. Spent some time on the weekend to manually backtest steviet's method to the ...

How I found what works for me

Unrealistically high expectations? — Hi, I am just wondering if you are suffering from unrealistically high expectations. Have you really thought about what is a really good average or consistent return? How high a yearly % do the professional ...

TraderT - My Trading Journey

Answer to a question about how I trade Steviet's E/U — Here is my answer to a question about how I trade Steviet's E/U London Open Reversal system. I have just copied it from the thread where I responded: Answer to a question about how I trade ...

How I found what works for me

Watch Out for 'normal markets' — Hi Tiki, I see you are still doing the TT5 without stops. Good luck to you, I think you will need it when 'normal markets' resume and the trends go for longer than 8 hrs. If we get back to 3 to 5 day ...

Tiki Trader Trades

My take on moving stops for Steviet's euro trade — steviet's euro method Hi Ian Thanks for leaving a comment on my journal. I'm trying to trade steviet's euro method, but i would like to protect some profits. Mind i ask how you protect your ...

TraderT - My Trading Journey

Thank you asdf — Thank you asdf, That is really comprehensive analysis. I am so pleased to see that paradoxical has not driven you away. You do not appear to be Keith Brown so far as I can see, but I will wait for Twee's verdict on that score. ...

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Good thing you were at home — Hi Steve, Its a good thing that you were at home. I was wondering if you would be stopped out for a loss of the short as well as the long. I also got stopped for a profit of 2.4% (61 pips). I am currently kicking ...

Steviet's Live Trades!

My 'Other please specify' is Joel Rensink's free systems — My 'Other please specify' is Joel Rensink's free systems, FS and ONS and are refernced in this thread in the commercial section. url In fact these are the systems I have live traded ...

[vote/scoring] comm section systems, which are useful?

No general convention — Hi, Unfortunately there is no general convention on counting pips. There are 3 ways that people may do it (plus some variations): 1. Entry price to exit price (each separate exit price if scaling out). 2. Sum of all ...

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Different ways of slicing the figures — Hi Cobra, I think there are diffenet ways of compiling the figures. The way wikipedia does it - which is by location , or the way the other guy quoted it, which is by company. It is misleading to use the ...

Trading for a Living - Cliff Notes

Royston - my thoughts FIW — Hi Royston, My thoughts. I agree that there is nothing wrong in closing before it hits your stop, if you have good evidence that invalidates your original decision to enter. However, I think ( I did not see/enter ...

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new pivots at 6pm - could it be that.... — Hi, I think the problem is that in MT the candle time is the start time. Thus if you want values at 17:00 you have to put in a whathour of 16 which will give you the values at 16:59 from a 1hr candle. ...

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Which ORB? — Me again, I was just wondering which ORB you are trading? Very few ORB's have a predefined r:r. Nearly all my live trading can be considered to be ORBs, though I tend to think of some as NRBs. I also trade a variation of the ...

TraderT - My Trading Journey

Keep up the good work — Hi TraderT, Keep up the good work. Two thoughts: 1. It is perhaps not the safest trade even to scalp into resistance. If it is thought to be good resistance (i.e. it has held as resistance twice before, or has held as ...

TraderT - My Trading Journey

Disapointing for me too ......... — Hi Steve, It was a disapointing day for me too. I took the short, tightened my SL to BE +2.3 and it resversed back and took me out to the pip, before heading back down again even further. At that point I ...

Steviet's Live Trades!

I really outsmarted myself today — Well done Steve, That is like a whole month's worth in one trade. I really outsmarted myself today. I managed to get taken out for an average of +35 pips so just 1.4%. Still it's better than a loss. Ian

Steviet's Live Trades!

Oops, should have looked at the time scale — Oops, should have looked at the time scale

NITRO Scalping for serious traders

asdf - What size renko brick are you using? — asdf, What size renko brick are you using? It looks prrtty small on your chart, is it 1 pip?

NITRO Scalping for serious traders

Justme - No the wicks are on the correct bricks! — Hi Justme, No the wicks are on the correct bricks! Remember that for an up brick, there can only be a down wick; for a down brick there can only be an up wick. The wicks were formed after the ...

NITRO Variations for Open-minded Traders

Iamfx - the indi requires smSuper TRIX_v1 — Iamfx - the indi requires smSuper TRIX_v1 You can verify that by looking at the error messages in your Experts tab in the Terminal window of MT4. I have attached it here for your convenience. Ian

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