I personally have the most trouble with psychology, so "Trading in the Zone" by Mark Douglas helped me. I also highly recommend "Enhancing Trader Performance" and "The Daily Trading Coach" both by Brett Steenbarger.

Strat's Long Term Stress Free Trading

Thanks for your analysis it's very clear and easy to follow.

Strat's Long Term Stress Free Trading

Wow Penguin that's an amazing improvement. I've been cursing the fact that I can only look at the daily due to work commitments but it looks like the daily is where its at!

james16 Chart Thread

What are you basing the red trendline on?

james16 Chart Thread

Do we trade buobs at swing highs?

james16 Chart Thread

Cool thanks. At the moment I'm just using metatrader for testing/reviewing charts and using IG Index to trade.

Simple Breakout/Straddle EA required

Who is your broker Clocksley? Alpari?

Simple Breakout/Straddle EA required

Yeah I'm just looking at it now. I should have looked at the other GBP pairs to confirm that 92.00 wouldn't have been a problem.

james16 Chart Thread

Yeah it looks good but we're right at 92.00 at the moment. Keep an eye on it though.

james16 Chart Thread

Ok these are my current thoughts - I'm just throwing them out - they might all be rubbish. What about only placing the trades based on the 22hr london time candle just before the London open? Say at 7am London time? Sometimes the market breaks out ...

Simple Breakout/Straddle EA required

Thanks for pointing them out Ronald. I'll check them out.

Simple Breakout/Straddle EA required

Codemeister how did you go?

Simple Breakout/Straddle EA required

What about instead of basing the breakout off the high and low of the candle, basing it off the close of the candle and using the size of the candle to determine the size of the range required for the breakout? For example, take the close of the ...

Simple Breakout/Straddle EA required

What was your initial stop and did you have a trailing stop? Which bar did you base the straddle on?

Simple Breakout/Straddle EA required

I'm having trouble visualizing how this will work. Could you post an example? Very often. Yesterday I was triggered in one direction and stopped out. Today I was triggered in both directions (by a couple of pips) and stopped out. The original idea ...

Simple Breakout/Straddle EA required

Oh OK - I thought you might have come across some previously posted code that you could repost. OK I'll tell you my ideas and you can make a decision whether you would like to code the strategy and share it with me. Idea 1 (as I mentioned in a ...

Simple Breakout/Straddle EA required

Yes - please post. I'm currently live trading this strategy and I'm getting some spectacular returns. I'm straddling the USD/JPY candle that starts at 21:00 GMT and finishes at 22:00 GMT (22:00 to 23:00 London time) and am getting some spectacular ...

Simple Breakout/Straddle EA required

According to Ace, this week is a no trade. He doesn't trade boxes larger than 200 pips. See below.

4H Box Breakout

How did you know that? Is it posted anywhere?

4H Box Breakout