Hi David, I might have done the same thing as you, honestly. Although, I like wedges (coils, pennants, whatever). Hopefully I would have seen the wedge from 5 Sep 2300 to 7 Sep 0800, in which case I would have played the downside breakout, and taken ...

Question for experienced traders: what am I doing wrong?

It's hard to give you an answer without knowing the strategy. One thing you can do is only take a trade on a new candle.

Code mq4

This should do what you want. If you open the EA there are comments inside that explain the settings. Right click on it and select Modify. If you accidently change the code and it won't work, then come back here and download again and copy over the ...

EMA cross EA

Sounds like it tried to make a too-big trade - be glad it didn't! The way lot size is specified varies between brokers. Try running the ea on a IBFX demo. Put in some print statements to tell you the trade size, getlasterror(), etc., this can be a ...

EA not taking some trades on live account

Well, an update is probably overdue, somebody out there might want to know what's going on with me. Jan was great, as previously mentioned. In Feb, the things I did during Nov, Dec, and Jan did not work anymore. Since then, it's been choppy. Feb was ...

Transition from Losing to Winning

Your question made me think of Market Facilitation Index. It's standard on mt4. Attached are my notes from Bill Williams' book. I don't know if it's of any use. At the same time, if you look on the daily chart, it's amazing how many times the "fake" ...

TD Line Qualifiers and potential filters

How about this one? //+------------------------------------------------------------------+ //| UniversalMACrossEA.mq4 | //| Copyright 2006, firedave | //| Partial Function Copyright 2006, codersguru | //| Partial Function Copyright 2006, ...

Note to people needing a coder

So if you get ripped off, as many often do, then it's not ok to try to recover somthing. I think the scumbags (I'm sure you agree) are the ones out there selling software that will only blow your account. Here's some questions... when I installed ...

Note to people needing a coder

No. That is just the compiled code of the vHandsTrade.mq4 file.

VHands Trading Simulator

Hi Albert, As usual, I'm going to argue with you. Your math is impeccable, as always. If you get a 36 to 1 payout, once in 38 spins, expectancy is hard-wired, given enough spins. The thing that gives traders confusion is the sample size - number of ...

Random Market vs Set Expectancy

If this means the market is random, then it proves that an airplane = a bird. They do the same thing - fly. And there is similarity in appearance.

Is the market random or not ?

Wow. Haven't run into this. About how big a file are you talking about?

Top Most Unfortunate Limitations of MT4/MQL4

This is what I consider random. You see your favorite setup. You've been profiting 60 - 70% on it for years. You take your entry. Everything is going along fine. Then, that which you mention above happens, unannounced, out of the blue, and you're ...

Is the market random or not ?

If the market were truly random, all traders would lose over the long term, because of spread. How could there be a strategy for a truly random market? Semantics again. random, randomness, randomity, randificationism, etc. Successful traders have ...

Is the market random or not ?

We only disagree on extent or semantics, otherwise we agree. There are definitely random events. No trader can deny this. Randomness, as you put it, exists, without question. I took the question as, "are the markets always random?" or "completely ...

Is the market random or not ?

Gotta disagree, Albert. You may have all cog's calculated, and your aircraft is flying straight and level... Then someone drops, out of nowhere, a ton of weight in seat 73F. That's the analogy of the transactions Trader613 is talking about. These ...

Short Term Trading is Quantum Physics

If there are probabilities, then it is not random. Is blackjack random? No. The MIT team proved it. Actually they proved that there are times when it is not, and they greatly increased their bets when probability was in their favor. Welcome to forex. ...

Is the market random or not ?

I think this is not a vHands problem. I was getting a message like this recently when trying to run strategy tester on another EA. I tried the next day and everything worked ok.

VHands Trading Simulator

Not yet. Take a look at the daily and let's see what it does at this resistance level from late Feb. I'm a little biased to the downside. Just an opinion (from someone who has never traded this pair) PS - thanks for the heads up! (No pun intended).

head and shoulders EUR/JPY

I would go one farther and say that price data is communicated between banks, dealers and brokers in real time. I can't verify that, but that's the way markets work - they'd better know what the others are doing. I believe price data from bank ...

A Trading Idea which needs Refining