after recording the trade and reviewing frame by frame i now see what is happening during the trade. i was wondering what was going on with the trailing ea since i input 10 or 15 pips and the trailing line was only one or two pips away from price ...

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had trailing ea set to 15 but as i watched the trade the stop loss line was right next to the price line. maybe 15 means 1.5 pips then. will have to figure this out but anyway it was a good trade for 10.4 pips

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i will take this into consideration : )

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many thanks : ) glad you asked about my sl/tp setting because i was wondering if anyone else was trailing from sl or not. i turn profit trailing off so the trailing value becomes sl as well. as soon as the trade is opened the stop loss will move up ...

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was hoping someone would answer the broker question, thanks was one of my first attempts at this, first was crude the other day and i still have to figure out the settings for trailing as that chart is not in pips. would need to multiply by two or ...

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tried straddle trade on demo with m15 chart using pending orders. i use trailing stop ea which i set to trail immediately (not from profit) and set it to whatever the 5atr is which was 13 pips. trade ended at 18.6 pip. maybe the broker will not be ...

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a lot of negative posts about them by username entheos.. interesting

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i'm in waterloo using nyc server, so far so good

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can you explain, this has never happened to me with this ea

Need an EA to kill all orders (pending and open) at a price

today i chose au,nu,uf,uc,uj and set collective sl and tp to about 40 pips at 1:1. was considering adding eu because of such a strong trend line break formation but decided not too (d'oh). waited for news and tried to keep the pending orders not too ...

W1/D1/H4 or D1/H4/H1 for trend analysis?

here is todays trading. i chose au,nu,uf,uj and placed pendings and waited for the news. i got a bit antsy and set to break even when 30+ pips was reached (combined atr of those pairs) and got stopped out at break even. now the basket is taking off ...

W1/D1/H4 or D1/H4/H1 for trend analysis?

thanks hazel. what i am doing is only using higher time frames to select pairs/direction at the beginning of the trade session. i don't want to be looking for moves on higher time frames i just want to know which pairs have the strongest momentum. i ...

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lol everybody scared to post in this thread now cuz the got us all like

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thanks for the responses everyone; i need to subscribe to my own threads more often ; ) i'm also sometimes going with flags, wedges etc and trading the majors as a basket and use the combined atr of the pairs being traded for my sl/tp/ts. i use an ...

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thanks toppo!

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looking at some of vvfish trades one can see the distance from the high/low and the stop out. this is a way to roughly see what trailing settings he uses. although they seem to be different on each pair. some trades are 3-4 pips, others maybe 7 ...

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thanks federicoo, i might try this method cheers : )

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thanks for the response : ) i will keep following from the video it seems you make your decision to buy or sell just seconds before the news and enter manually at market, based on the movement of price in the last few seconds before news time? is ...

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any comments on this setup? eu, nu, au all showed trendline breakout sell opportunities leading into nfp

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choose EURUSD as signal pair and 1.08876 as the exit price and all pairs will be closed when eurusd reaches that price. maybe it only closes trades with same magic number i'm not sure

Is it possible to close all positions on mt4?