Hey you're the Muppet whisperer round here, I'm just some schmuck who posts a bit then fucks off for a year or so!

EURUSD

You're adding in after a 4 pip movement? Sounds a bit shotgun to me?

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Got the free run, but cheated myself out of at least 10 pips on the first half by watching too closely!!!

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I hope it will, cause I need it to touch 45 for a 1/2 position free ride with my stop above 82.

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That's what she said! (Sorry, couldn't resist)

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How do you play little ranges like this? As you can see my sell-stops have been triggered:

EURUSD

Havent posted on here for ages but... — This looks like a very sexy setup on Copper if you've got the minerals to short metals: Bearish outside bar/ "PPZ"/ Round Number (4.500)/RSI divergence. Unfortunately I don't have a live account which ...

james16 Chart Thread

Gold Daily Setup — I think this looks like a nice setup on the gold daily. Feel free to tell me why it isn't.

james16 Chart Thread

I see noone has yet spotted my "deliberate" mistake, mea culpa. Which does lend credence to the idea that I am indeed the retard. Nevertheless the above (incorrect) calculation still presuposes trading conditions which are better than 99% of us have ...

95%-98% win rate EA...need help to finish

Hello from the resident retard. — As a retard (according to OP) I find it difficult to grasp some basic things, so please answer this. If you had a win rate of 96.5% (Average of 95-98) Assume 1 pip of spread/comission/slippage on each trade, ...

95%-98% win rate EA...need help to finish

Heres a proper MACD, hope it suits.

4 Hour Strategy (MACD)

Hi Mike, Heres the 4Hr close up; It looks like a failed break and a touch off a potential TL. Sell stop and SL below and above the red dotted lines, yellow dotty lines are obvious support areas from the daily. edit: If you aggregate the last 2 days ...

james16 Chart Thread

GPYJPY short setup-daily — Hi, Just wonderin' what d'ya all think of this potential short setup on the guppy?

james16 Chart Thread

MT4 is the ubiquitous charting package for retail brokers. It is provided by Metaquotes, a third party software developer. Its more customisable and user friendly than the POS Java platform that Oanda has offered over the years. A lot of peeps use ...

Oanda goes Metatrader

If you make 5% return for 12 months in row you have made more than 60% (12x5) return. You have made 1.05*12=1.79 or 79%. Thats compounding.

What does compounding mean?

Looking for 5 pips profit with 88 pit stop is not going to work! If you pay even 1 pip spread you will never overcome trading costs, you cant afford to have a spread/profit of 20%+. To stop and reverse with a lot size 5x the original will result in ...

95%-98% win rate EA...need help to finish

I see, that sounds a bit more reasonable, but youve got it the wrong way round in the OP, "Pips won to pips lost ratio 1.50 to 1." Still even the other way round thats more than respectable. I guess its worth a punt using 2:1 gearing,

Trading With Moving Averages