Thanks. Mind you, this is something that I didn't do when I started out a few years ago. Oh, how things change. Now I can't imagine putting on a trade without first having read the morning reports of 'what went down'. BTW, I find forexlive very ...

Reminiscences of A Forex Speculator

The way I see it there's still more trading to be done until the Japanese intervene. They said they would not intervene before the debt deal is done in the US. I don't know when the deal will be finalized so that's an open-ended timeframe. But that ...

Reminiscences of A Forex Speculator

That was a very informative and well-written overview of your current thinking. In fact I share your opinion when it comes to the effect of any debt deal in the US - I too think the positive effect will be short-lived. The current proposed deal ...

Reminiscences of A Forex Speculator

Nice idea for a new thread.

Trading Cartoons and Pics

This Time if No Different — I'm posting a paper by Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff titled This Time Is Different (it was later turned into a book, so if you prefer that, go to Amazon). It's a fairly important review of what authors themselves ...

The PDF useful sources thread

This kind of attitude is exactly what got the US into the mess they're in right now. Being over-generous with political promises and maxing out the national credit card when demographic and other trends are not in one's favor is something that most ...

What Will Happen to Forex Trading if the Euro Falls?

A strange way to abbreviate words that are easy to spell, but thanks nonetheless.

Reminiscences of A Forex Speculator

What do -ve and +ve mean? I've seen this used on FF, I've done extensive Google searches but noone seems to know what it means. I only ended up reading about high-brow physics. Do people just use it to look smart or does it have a meaning?

Reminiscences of A Forex Speculator

Hi flotsom, I downloaded your new strength meter and I managed to get it to work this time. However, I think you got a bad deal with this one on the coding side. I set out to test this indicator, but I'm not able to report anything good or bad ...

Currency Strength Indicator

These spikes are not helping, you are right about that. But then again, this is nothing new in the capital markets. Strong hands > weak hands. Spikes like this are to be expected whenever USDJPY goes below 79 as entities such as Kampo (and other ...

Reminiscences of A Forex Speculator

That certainly doesn't feel good. My experience tells me that it's best to take a time out for the day, a few days or a week and wait a) the markets to calm down a bit and b) for one to clear up one's mind. You've shown some real skill previously ...

Reminiscences of A Forex Speculator

I do mind. I have given a lot of clues and explanations of how I use relative strength indicators on this thread. That is more than enough to get you started. Learning to trade and to use indicators is a tough job and it takes time and effort to ...

Currency Strength Indicator

The indicators that I use are very accurate on all timeframes with default settings and you can use the CCFp as an 'anchor' when adjusting the settings on your new indicator. Let's say you put your new indicator on the chart but you're not entirely ...

Currency Strength Indicator

For sure. I'm just glad you and other people like you are so kind to share what they've built. Thank you for all your help. See you around.

Currency Strength Indicator

Tried, didn't find it (I have Vista). Later googled it and found this: In Windows Vista and Windows 7 ClearType is turned on by default ( url ). So...that can't be the answer to the problem. I have great respect for you and I have enjoyed reading ...

Currency Strength Indicator

Hi hanover, thanks so much for taking the time. Default should be OK. Other people aren't having problems with the default settings. I haven't changes anything apart from testing out flotsom's idea of changing the timeframe settings according to the ...

Currency Strength Indicator

Unfortunately I have to report that it didn't help. Attaching it on a M1 chart crashed my MT4 and changing the settings on M15 (to 15) didn't do a thing with the way it's displayed. No, that doesn't have anything to do with the problem. There ...

Currency Strength Indicator

Still doesn't work. I tried two different brokers' versions of MT4 and that didn't help either. It seems to me that there is something wrong with the order in which the gray, red, blue and green bars are printed on the chart. If you draw one over ...

Currency Strength Indicator

No. I'm on the sidelines right now, researching market profile, order flow etc. Mix the two (studying and trading at the same time) and you end up wrecking your account and learning next to nothing. I've done a few trades on demo just to test out ...

Reminiscences of A Forex Speculator

Thanks for posting the indicator, flotsom. I was just about to go and test it but it doesn't display the info like it does on your chart. I've attached a chart. I used the default settings on the indicator. Any idea why it isn't working?

Currency Strength Indicator