Well it's 2% (or whatever risk %) of equity to reach maximum acceptable loss. You could do the same w/ forex, assuming that the lowest a pair could reach is 0, but you would have to double the current exchange rate to see a 2% equity growth. The ...

no stop loss for stock trades

I had this problem because of an indicator I was using. It drew lines in a way that was... inefficient at best. I had 10 charts open at load, took a good 5 minutes.

MT4 Freezing with Right Click

NFP, along with a lot of other news, gets pre-priced. Some of this is because other reports can precede the data and tip ppl off, others just guess or follow the new trend. Either way the price changes happen early, so when the actual report comes ...

NFP news

Probably because of the remarkably low expectancy. I back-tested several coin flips approaches, both with and without a Stop&Reverse, on various time frames, with various delays between the next trade, and with various stop losses. No matter what ...

The Coin Trade System aka Flip The Coin

It's all the same thing. What they usually cut is called the "short term interest rate" which is the rate that the fed charges to lend money over shorter time frames. That then becomes a basis rate that banks expect, and a basis rate that banks tend ...

INterest rates??

You don't need them on the screen, no. If it's using internal indicators like atr, rsi, stochs, etc, it can get that data from MT4 internally. If it's using external custom indicators they'll need to be in your indicator folder and compiled. Some ...

EA setup

Swap rates... check your broker, most will post them.

where can i find a list of rollover fee for carry trades ?

Oh yuck, nasty spikes. Probably a really bad spread or a messed up data feed. Talk w/ your broker.

Can anybody have ideas why price goes down very quickly in that two days!

That's because support and resistance is perhaps the most reliable thing out there. Why not ditch the indicators and other useless cruft and do what works?

I am going to give up this forex soon.

Can't see the chart... so... But yea, prolly a news event or a major support blow out. Big events today, lots of movement.

Can anybody have ideas why price goes down very quickly in that two days!

Easiest way is to check the history. int TotalHistoryOrders() { int cnt = 0; int TotalOpenOrders = 0; cnt=OrdersHistoryTotal(); if(cnt==0) { return(0); } else { for(;cnt>=0;cnt--) { RefreshRates(); OrderSelect(cnt,SELECT_BY_POS,MODE_HISTORY); ...

EA Coding for One Trade Per Day :D

The last 12 hours seem to have just... disappeared. The whole feed is fubared. They need to stop screwing with their data feeds. Anyone know a better MT4 broker?

IBFX - Is it just me?

Nod. It's not just the expectancy rate, it's also the risk to return. You could have a 40% success rate but if you're working at 2:1 or 3:1 returns you'd still turn a profit. All of that is well and good, but in real-time it takes a lot of ...

How long till the law of large numbers is in play?

Gap = A break in price where nobody traded. It happens, esp around weekends. Look at this last weekend, lots of gaps. They tend to close over the next few bars, so they make good short-term trades with (usually) a good ROI. Lets say you're long and ...

Can anyone prove broker fraud?

Trailing stop is a trending technique, don't use it on small ranges or in places where the price is likely to reverse soon. You'll need a different exit strategy for those times. Depends on the platform. Ironically MT4's trailing stop feature is ...

Trailing Stop Question?? Need help!!

LOL... cute, but what you need is something called a "confidence interval" or "confidence level" which is how many times until you're confident in the statistical play out. First it depends on how confident you want to be. But math and long story ...

How long till the law of large numbers is in play?

We just passed a local resistance area and tests to the downside have failed to break below the zone. I'm rather bullish on USD/CAD for the time being... altho we might see enough resistance at 1.0000 for a reversal. There might be some resistance ...

should we play on usd/cad ?

Try using a decreasing MM risk percentage. Start with a small amount of money and a high risk %, like 30%, and move lower as your balance increases until you're trading with $5k or $10k and 2% risk. As long as your system doesn't suffer too many ...

Have you ever turned $250 into an account > $1000

Hmm, ok. Not sure I'm following... spacing? Between trades? It should be instant. Looks instant in the backtests, but that's easy to misread. PM me, I'll send you what I have. No idea if it's anything close to what you're looking for tho.

Looking for stop and reverse EA