there are many EA's that you can double your money in 1000 trades. but 1000 trades is a very long time

Backtesting Discussions - I had a 99.72% success on a strategy.

let me see if im on the right track go long when 1) 3 candles in a row are above the 10 ema 2) the first candle's lowest of open/close is 10 less then the 3rd candle's highest of open/close do each of the candles need to be higher then the previous ...

10 Pip System Need Indicator Programmed

i have not had much luck with mt4 for backtesting, from what i can tell it is worthless, tradestation works alot better, even excel works better. i guess you do get what you pay for. after i created the indicator for flyer i went ahead and tested it ...

Backtesting Discussions - I had a 99.72% success on a strategy.

take a MA cross ea and run it in optimization mode in mt4. you can set it to run the fast ma from 1 to 100 and the slow from 1 to 100. it will probably take a few days tho

Thinking of a system.

gambling is when you bet money on a chance to win that is less then 50%. investing is when you bet money on a chance to win that is greater then 50%. so depending on how you trade, it could be gambling

Forex gambling?

no problem i knew you were planning on making one but i figured you were really busy with the EA. making those EAs are like 10x harder for me then making indicators.

Help Test my new EA, FLYER!

you kinda hafta do 2 things line[i] = CLR_NONE; line[i] = EMPTY_VALUE; i have had it work with just 1 of those but its not always consistently (could be me tho )

Invisible Indicator Color

here is an all-in-one indicator and template green arrow: buy red arrow: sell yellow X: false start, dinna cross with in 5 bars you should prolly put in your order 1 bar after the signal, but if you feel lucky ... vars: extern int xFastEMA = 18; ...

Help Test my new EA, FLYER!

you might look at this thread http://www.forexfactory.com/forexforum/showthread.php?p=109985#post109985 the amount you risk really depends on the performance of your system. if you systems expectancy is below 0.00 you shouldnt risk any at all

Noob question about Money Management

can i make a request too. can you make it so if i set the risk to 0% it will just trade one mini lot per trade. i did it in my copy but i dont want to get different versions going here thats so much for all your work

Help Test my new EA, FLYER!

winrate, payrate and frequency are way more import then pips. take for example, you have a system that wins 50% of the time with a s/l of 10 and t/p of 20 and you can trade it 3 times a day. then you have a system that wins 50% of the time with a ...

Vote the most profitable method

you forgot fxigor. its a really well planned system.

Vote the most profitable method

while the sar looks great and can be a key indicator to a system, it isnt quite as good as it looks. I ran into this problem while trying to make a system around it. I created my own SAR that shows exactly where the calculations are and removes the ...

parabolic SARS

might you run the test again with these values (they are kelly formulas modified by risk of ruin that match the systems winrate,payrate) <TABLE style="WIDTH: 38pt; BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse" cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=50 ...

Is this a Successful System?

if you use kelly's criterion you can figure it out pretty quickly. Lots of people say to only risk 1% but if your system is good you are hurting yourself by risking less. That said, you really need to know what your system produces and it is better ...

risking 1% vs 2%

you might want to import some historical data from http://www.alpari-idc.com/en/dc/databank.php the modeling quality is only 25%, you should be able to get it up to 90% with out proper data mt4 "fakes" what the interday data would be by splitting ...

Help Test my new EA, FLYER!

this looks really good, still going through it. im not sure about using the MFI though, as mt4 "fakes" volume, you are actually using the price x2 to generate the readings for this.

abid's method

another thing to note, is that until the modeling quality says 90% your test is not accurate. the longer the timeline of you test the better its going to look because there is less and less data. this is especially true on interday trades. you might ...

Questionable Strategy Tester Results.

i think you might need to define rules for stepping down a level. this will save you from wipe out. say you are at level X and you have $100. if you have each pip worth $0.50 (0.5% of your account) and you take a 40pip loss you are now at $80. if ...

Apply a 28 Levels Financial Plan to Forex and convert $10 to $10,000

you will want to get your pivots from a site that posts them daily. each broker has their own prices so your pivots may be different then the "real" pivots (meaning the majority). the more people that use pivots the better they work, if you happen ...

Pivot Points