it depends on how I am trading. Intraday-- daily pivots are nice and help with profit taking. Swing trading -- weekly and monthly work very nice. Position trading -- yearly pivots are incredible. I was amazed at the number of currencies that went ...

best time frame for pivot point

asian session. By far the least volital but holds a trend nicely.

Least volatile times to trade

I agree with you Scotty B. It looks like it is only about halfway done with this head and shoulders run down. Lots of room to drop long term.

GBYJPY OPEN FORUM

yup and MBTrading.com MBTrading has some great examples of how to communicate with their api using visual studio (C or basic). Great place to start.

Brokers with free Trading API's?

not sure how you could do it without the original source code so you can see what functions you want to call. icustom makes it really nice to pull data from other indicators but it won't work with ea's. Maybe someone else can chime in and help.

iCustom for EAs?

you can use the #import to bring in the functionality of a compiled ex4 file. If it doesn't find the file in the indicators folder it will then look in the experts folder.

iCustom for EAs?

Yes it is true that the software was developed by Russians but so was Vodka. But PLEASE PLEASE Don't tell anyone about the Vodka.

What does free charting really cost.

i have had a couple of small outages with odl lately. Usually less than 5 minutes. Probably just a couple of server reboots. Other than that they have performed very well for me.

IBFX issues...... ???????

as for 1. Most people use a blind stop. Say 35 pips or so. The way I have been taught to set a stop is to place it a few pips beyond the last swing high or swing low which gives the currency the ability to go back and retest the swing before moving ...

Features for EA's

1. proper automated stop selection based on current market conditions. 2. Money management. It needs to be able to adjust lot size based on number 1. 3. user input for maximum risk % for all open trades. 4. Max number of orders open at one time. 5. ...

Features for EA's

gbpjpy is hovering around a yearly pivot support line at around 210.33 it has been hovering around there for most of the month of feb. back in Jan it dropped like a rock down to the yearly M1 pivot at 204.54 and bounced off of it. With the yen ...

GBYJPY OPEN FORUM

There is no way that I know of to detect which template is loaded. However, I wrote you a little utility that will allow you to place a personal note on the screen. That way you can change it to whatever template you have loaded. You can change the ...

Indicator to show template name?

everytime the value is assigned to a variable increment a counter. 1 counter for short 1 counter for long and 1 for ignore. Then apply the following formula to the equation: result =false; if(mathabs(long-short)+ignore)==4)result=true; in the first ...

4 variable, 4 states, bitwise operation

One of the best threads on this forum in my opinion. Thanks for starting it. Sorry for the long disertation below: As much as I hate to even say it, there is NO system or methodology that will give you an edge. The only edge we have as individual ...

Important – Why systems are profitable (or not)

Here is the formula from the silvertrend indicator: K=33-RISK; for (shift = CountBars-SSP; shift>=0; shift--) { SsMax=High[shift]; SsMin=Low[shift]; for (i2=shift;i2<=shift+SSP-1;i2++) { price=High[i2]; if(SsMax<price) SsMax=price; price=Low[i2]; ...

what is the formula of silvertrend method ???

wish you all the luck in the world. I sincerely hope you reach your goal.

25 percent in under a week

Just thought of something. Since there is no incoming data, the ea won't work. Wait for the markets to open tomorrow night and see if it works.

Reduce Lot level following 2 consecutive losses?

check under the experts tab in the terminal window to see if there are any error messages being generated. If they are, post them here please.

Reduce Lot level following 2 consecutive losses?

you can't

how to set up MT4 can see china stocks?

Most likely they have just supressed the list. Click view, market watch, right click anywhere on the list of currencies then click show all. You should see it appear on the list.

meta4trader with audjpy?