Moving Stop to BE - Good Idea or Not ? — GBPUSD trading last night gave me reason to question this practice. Is moving the StopLoss to breakeven a good trading decision or not ? Does this practice improve profitability ? If this is not a ...

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Moving Stop to BE - Good Idea or Not ? — GBPUSD trading last night gave me reason to question this practice. Is moving the StopLoss to breakeven a good trading decision or not ? Does this practice improve profitability ? If this is not a ...

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Room for pending orders — Muten thanks for sharing those links, very helpful, so CTGUY is the author, I see he keeps the system very simple too, I like it. In my experience most MT4 brokers require that pending orders are 3 pips away from ...

7am-9am Big Dog USD Breakout Strategy

Breakouts at other times — Living in New Zealand I'm asleep for the official 7-9am breakout range used with this system. This means I'm looking for breakouts at other times. I'm monitoring four pairs GBPUSD AUDUSD EURUSD EURJPY. All four pairs ...

7am-9am Big Dog USD Breakout Strategy

Getting started with this system — Muten, I agree with your questions. It would be very valuable to find a summary from experienced traders of this system. I haven't found one yet. One thing I have done is troll through all the attachments ...

7am-9am Big Dog USD Breakout Strategy

Trade entries in more detail — Mike, thanks for your question. I didn't add sell stops on that big chart because I was trying to clearly illustrate decision ranges and was avoiding clutter. The only trades that survived were the two buys so ...

7am-9am Big Dog USD Breakout Strategy

Decision Ranges — I have been studying the behaviour of GBPUSD. One reason this Big Dog Breakout strategy works is because of a period of lower volatility leading up to the NYSE open. Monitoring the 7-9am range then placing orders at 9:15 ...

7am-9am Big Dog USD Breakout Strategy

Narrow Ranges Better ? — Hello 'Big Dog Breakout' Traders, I have been reading this thread trying to gain an understanding of what impact the height of the range has on profitability. In post #1 this was described in points 2 and 3 below... ...

7am-9am Big Dog USD Breakout Strategy

Lunarium — When all else fails... consult the stars... image “There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full ...

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Risk-OFF markets — “The risk-off trade is helping the dollar a little bit,” said Carl Forcheski, a director on the corporate currency sales desk at Societe Generale SA in New York. “The euro has gone one way for all of September, so things got ...

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Integrate Compression into your EA — I approve Compression.mq4 integration into any non-commercial EA or non-commercial indicators. The sample interface code below fits into the start() function of your EA. // compression means (volume / ...

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Compression Indicator for MT4 — OK, had some people asking about the indicator I'm using. All my indicators are free for personal non-commercial use. All I ask is that my copyright is respected. I try to make each indicator do one simple job ...

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Decompression candles confirm Direction — What direction is price likely to move ? First I look for a cycle of increasing compression lasting two hours or more. The Compression indicator green bars or black bars should be making higher highs ...

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SP500 is ready for DOWN — Huge volume this week on SP500 futures (ES). Activity levels are extraordinary four days in a row. Increasing compression during past month rally. Max compression (2 std deviations) hit twice this week. Previous max ...

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Basic Rollover Dance Moves — As I investigate compression as a hidden dimension of market activity I keep noticing a repeated sequence of what I call dance moves. Basic Rollover Dance Moves price cannot break resistance for 12 hours price ...

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Blended Pinbars Indicator — Gesek has shown us pinbars that appear on lower timeframes as a different type of pattern. The idea is that two candles blended together can make a very significant pattern. Note: The two terms candles and bars mean ...

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Data Feed Quality and Volumes (Tic Data) — Mindsphere, thanks for raising this question. I also understood and believed that tic volume in retail forex is simply rubbish. The reason is most data feeds originate from a broker rather than from a ...

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Compression Early Warning 'Radar' ? — Time now for a practical look at what compression readings can do for us... If we can look inside the candles and see how much pressure is building up this should give us a kind of early warning radar ...

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Excellent post — Gesek, wow that is a brilliant post! Excellent clear charts, headings, checklists everything. I understand now how to use pinbars (upthrust bars) much better than before - thanks. I also needed to understand that pinbars ...

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Mechanics of Price Movement — What is it exactly that makes price move ? Limit orders do not move price, they just sit there waiting to be filled. Limit orders provide liquidity at a specific price only, they do not search out and consume ...

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