Over optimization... — Great stuff FXEZ! I asked a question a while ago, but it's still irking me. You said: "I prefer to allow the system to just do its thing, and use my discretion to foster improvements or newer, better system versions, ...

One Way to Develop a Winning System

Expert Advisor Builder — Hi bmwboyee, If you're not having luck with a pre-built EA, you can try googling "Expert Advisor Builder". It's a really easy way to get the basics of an EA complete and then you can tweak it from there. Also, if ...

Aroon trader

Leverage — VERY interesting idea! One quick question though... Since the bank account is at 1:1 leverage, wouldn't you only be able to risk the same amount in your trading account? For instance, if you're trading at 1:100 leverage, you ...

Hedge with Base Currency

I think I got it — FYI to anyone who stumbled on this thread.... I think the issue is that I was thinking in "lots" per Metatrader standars, not "units" like at OandA. When I placed the same number of 'units' in my OandA account across several ...

Cross Currency Correlation (or lack thereof)

Thank you! — Thanks Aparsai, I am currently forward testing a strategy of mine, and am in a period of drawdown myself. Although I intellectually realise that it sometimes takes weeks (in the backtest) to recoup a few losses in a row, it has ...

The Ugly Drawdown

Link — Hi Rumi, Oanda has a pretty comprehensive explanation on their site here: url Im not sure if I have enough posts to post a link, so if it gets removed just google "oanda interest calculator". Seavo

Calculating Swap

More data — Hi Piperoni, Try going to Tools -> History Center, then locate the currency you want and the timeframe (in the left frame) and click "Download". You can also get data from Alpari going back to '99, but that's a little more time ...

problem with backtesting

EAB — Check out Expert Advisor Builder. If you google "expert advisor builder" it's the first link. Basically, you just have to fill in the fields and click "submit" and <poof> there's your EA Now, I wouldn't take your new EA live just ...

Would someone please help me with writing a strategy?

Great point. I never thought of this, but it makes perfect sense. So, you would say that changing (for instance) an MA from 14 to 17 and getting crazy better performance is unlikely true whereas going from 14 to 28 is more likely an improvement ...

"curve fitting" or just improving??

W00T! — Thanks Merlin! You're faster than Googling Now on to figuring out how to use this info...... Seavo

If forex is 24/7, what happens when brokers close?

MTF indicator? — You're looking for a Multi Time Frame indicator? If so, here's the MTF MA. Just set the TimeFrame to be 1440 for the daily (it's in minutes) and the MA period to 21. It's not smoothed like the MA on the daily chart, but it's ...

Daily 21EMA on a 1 hour chart?

EA — Hi Tryad, You could attach an EA to your chart before you leave that closes the trades at a designated period of time. Something like: int CloseTradeHour=5; if(Hour()==CloseTradeHour){ // put your closing statements here } Seavo

Automatically Close Trades

I can try — Hi, I'm not the best EA programmer in the world, but if I can help I will. Feel free to PM me your AIM if you 'd like to chat. Seavo

Any EA programmers that have some free time today?

correlation — I think this is what you're looking for. I looked at this idea a couple months ago too, but became wrapped up in a different idea. It looked good in the amount of time I looked at it. I'd love to know if it pans out! Seavo

The correlated arb/hedge-system

Candlestick Trading — True story, My former employer saw me reading Steve Nison's "Japanese Candlestick Charting Techniques" and asked what it was about. I explained it was a way of reading charts for daytrading, and now she asks me how my ...

What are we called?

Mtf Ma — Here's the Multi Time Frame MA. It's choppier than a MA, but it should correspond to the correct value (IE, if you have a daily MA on a 15 min chart, it will look like a staircase as the values increment/decrement). Also, it only ...

MA's on multiple charts

w00t — thanks! no more copy/pasting into notepad!

How to fix this in MT4???