Thanks narafa for you contribution! As I mentioned before I have 500+ trades so I think that I am on the right track with my system. But I will make more tests on different uncorrelated pairs so that I can get an even further confirmation.

How much backtesting is enough?

You would want EUR/USD data is that correct? And what kind of data? Tick, 5min, 1hour or daily?

How much backtesting is enough?

This might also be very very true but one can never be 100% sure on that. And I always believe that alot can be learned by studying history. Thank you Rikers for that! That site looks great and I will do just as you said and continue to backtest on ...

How much backtesting is enough?

Thank you for your reply Rikers! Much appreciated! I currently have about 550-570 trades on one pair and every year so far has been profitable even tough there have been swings in the profitability so I have some confidence in the system. Ofcourse I ...

How much backtesting is enough?

Solid as a rock! Keep it coming!

How to use the 123 strategy effectively

Nice week Paulus! Congrats and thank you for all your posts and ideas! Are you still gonna trade this year? Or how do you see the coming weeks? Isn't volume going down drastically?

How to use the 123 strategy effectively

Thank you! — Thank you everyone for your replies! As you probably know the trade wen't totally wrong and once again it seems that Paulus is on the right track if looking at the chart now. Keepi it coming Paulus! Isn't it too hasty to enter ...

How to use the 123 strategy effectively

123 trade — Here is my EURUSD 123 trade that i just entered and would want some comments. In the pictures below you can see my entry, stoploss and takeprofit. I put the tp according to daily candles and stoploss according to 30min candles. Is ...

How to use the 123 strategy effectively

Thank you very much costgrove and ash! I will look into thee mt4 backtesting a bit more. And let's jump back on the original thread. Btw, where did hxcjf go? Wasn't he supposed to give orders as he sees them every week? And did you cosgrove get ...

Robust Volatility Breakouts - Set and Forget

Ok thank you very much for the explanation ash234. Do you know if when doing a backtest with some program, can you set rules for the aforementioned situation? Like what the backtesting software does when it hits a bar that has hit both entry and ...

Robust Volatility Breakouts - Set and Forget

Ok, but then shouldn't then the original backtest have even worse results then the one done with lower time frame data? Thank you for taking the time and answering! -Richard

Robust Volatility Breakouts - Set and Forget

Best post ever on FF!

Last words of a trader

At least I am talking about the backtesting of the First Strike system made by tdion. He said that the author probably didn't have lower timeframe data and that confused the backtest? And when he made the backtest with lower timeframe data he got ...

Robust Volatility Breakouts - Set and Forget

You could always donate to TheRumpledOne and get his IB for dummies indicator. You can probably find some info on kreslik.com. here is also a link to thread with the donational indicators: url -Richard

Need Inside Bar dashboard

Why isn't anyone commenting on this? I also wondered about the same thing? Why would the lower timeframe data "confuse" the backtest if you used the original rules? Maybe I just don't understand the mechanics or something but how is it possible that ...

Robust Volatility Breakouts - Set and Forget

Here are the indicators that sidefx could'nt upload. Let's see what we can start doing with these. Thank you sidefx for sharing the info and the contributions for the thread! I'm also going to start following this thread more closely. -Richard

How to use the 123 strategy effectively

Thank you very much seykota for your contribution, even though it is sad to hear that some asshole didn't respect you and went public with your system. Do you use at all the other ichimoku indicators for your trades or are they just there for ...

MTF Ichimoku System

Yes that's what i thought, then i'll just follow your journal and try to pick up some ideas that I could use on my own! But thank you for your efforts!

The ART of trading by Petar_Serbia

Thank you very much Petar for your great contributions and I will definietly join this little "classroom" of yours. Do you perhaps have any good links or books to read that would offer some insight into the world of volume? Would be very helpful for ...

The ART of trading by Petar_Serbia