Moving averages are important only if you hold a belief that makes them useful. For example, if you believe that past momentum is an indicator of future price direction, then a fast-slow MA cross becomes a useful tool.

Why moving averages are important?

Hi Burntwaffle,A good trading strategy has to be based on a logic that is consistent with the nature of markets. Therefore attempting to design a strategy while imposing arbitrary conditions like "at least 10 trades a week" or "70% success rate" ...

Help Me Find New Strategies

You seem to think that market movers act in a predictable fashion always and forever. Truth is, even the big players themselves do not know where price is going to go because the reality is that price is affected by a multitude of variables and ...

The Secret Indicator?

Wow this is certainly alien to me. When would the strategy enter and exit and how does it manage risk?

Trapping System: Grid

Having read interviews and biographys of many great traders, I strongly disagree. Risk-free profits are almost all arbitraged away. I can assure you that if you think you have an indicator that makes you money all the time, it is more likely that ...

The Secret Indicator?

Can anyone explain this strategy in simple non-EA terms?

Trapping System: Grid

I believe he tripled his account size, so it was an enormous winner. We still cannot say much about leverage used because we don't know the magnitude of the move. This sounds like it is going to be heavily curve-fitted. It also goes against all of ...

Paul Tudor Jones system wannabe

Good luck on developing your system. In my opinion it does not seem feasible in its current state. Pyramiding is generally used to build up to an optimal position size to exploit a trend. Building a pyramid system that counter-trades momentum is ...

Pyramid system

Congratulations on your system and your new equity high. I hate to sound negative, but in my testing of trend systems, this kind of large equity gain in such a short time tends to reflect very aggressive position sizing. If I may suggest, consider ...

Reverse Engineering a Profitable System (REPS)

What a strange thing to say. What makes you think they are all very difficult to find?

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