Markets are largely random, but there are some points in time when they are predictable and will undergo "flight of levy" i.e breakouts and trends. If you were to generate random numbers and apply the right formula, you end up with charts that look ...

Beliefs about the market

You can try Darwinex, they are an ECN with low spreads, FCA regulated. Not sure how the commissions compare to other brokers though

Best broker for high frequency trading?

I think this is similar to zone recovery, and in the end it's just a sort of martingale strategy. My advice: forget the holy grail. Learn how to develop a trading system, learn some statistics so that you can identify when you have a system with an ...

Always profit exit strategy

I noticed that both USDJPY and EURUSD had been running with the recent USD strength, and thought it might be interesting to see what the EURJPY cross was doing in relation to this. The correlation over the long term had been quite high recently, so ...

Detecting Fake Price Movements - Convergence Divergence Indicator

I got lazy and haven't quite finished the indicator, but it works, more or less. I put on a trade on EUR/JPY (short), let's see how it goes. image

Detecting Fake Price Movements - Convergence Divergence Indicator

Well, it seems to just use correlation determined over two separate periods. It should basically be this stuff: url I'll try code it tomorrow after work and see

Detecting Fake Price Movements - Convergence Divergence Indicator

I've tried some variations on these strategies but have not had much luck. I will have a look at your indicator requirements though and see if I can help. I did not know people actually wrote thesis on this stuff... being a scientist, I find it ...

Detecting Fake Price Movements - Convergence Divergence Indicator

I've been wondering about the same thing. Realistically though, I can't see how the VPS could easily monitor which alogrithms work and which don't, since they don't have access to view your trade account. They would need to maliciously hack in to ...

MT4 600+ compile and decompile

There are so few profitable traders on this site that anyone who is actually making money is a top trader (only 1% actually make real money - therefore they are automatically a top trader. The next 4% trade breakeven). So from, what I can see, I ...

List of top traders at Forex Factory that you know

Do a full back test first. Find 100 entry signals given by the indicator and determine the win rate, as well as the risk to reward ratio. There's no use trying to just look at it and see whether it seems profitable. If you can get a R:R higher than ...

New Indicator Found - Any thoughts?

The issue is that a single robot can never work. To be successful in algorithmic trading, you need a group of robots that can trade ranging, trending, volatile, non-volatile and a host of other markets attributes successfully. Next, you need a ...

What Would Be The Ideal Trading Robot For Our Markets Today?

It is so refreshing to see a thread here on FF where the OP has actually taken the time to properly backtest and clearly explain the strategy for a change. I especially like the use of pivot points and the daily open as supporting evidence in ...

Multi Stoch - expanding upon 'Spud's Stochastic Thread Theory'

Hi Jiva, I like the thread so far. This is nice mathematically proven way of trading (in fact, a lot of hedge funds do this on the long time frames). I'm just having some trouble seeing which one is your bb600 and which is the sma600 on your charts ...

Revert to the Mean

I can't speak for Stony, but I think the 61.8 fibonacci retracement level after we get a signal works well. Also, look to see if price starts to touch the ichimoku cloud and pulls back from there.

Kumo Twist Acceleration: simple and profitable strategy

UC making a nice pullback, watching for bearish evidence to enter short near the 50 or 61.8 fibo image

Kumo Twist Acceleration: simple and profitable strategy

I don't want to get overly optimistic too soon, but so far I'm very impressed with this system. The win rate has been steady at 50%, but I'm pulling in 1:2 and 1:2.5 trades fairly consistently using the pullback method. I took a losing trade on GU ...

Kumo Twist Acceleration: simple and profitable strategy

Waiting to see some bullish price action on GU. The pullback resembles a head and shoulders pattern, which makes me a bit hesitant, but we'll see how things play out once the London session gets underway in a few hours. image

Kumo Twist Acceleration: simple and profitable strategy