What the book really showed me is that every person needs to develop their own system for themselves, something with which they are personally confident. That is one of the reasons why I have no qualms showing my system. Unless your trading ...

Jay's Candle Sticker System

Technically I process my trades after the end of the day when the new candlesticks appear and I have new information to base my trading decisions on. This happens for me just after 5 pm eastern. I typically don't shut down my trade unless it closes ...

Jay's Candle Sticker System

Well, I just checked the candlesticks on the forex pairs that I trade and unfortunately, no new candle formations were confirmed so my system simply states to hold all current positions until 5 pm tomorrow, hopefully, I'll get an example for you ...

Jay's Candle Sticker System

Sure, I'll post some examples after 5 pm eastern if I get any valid trades today. Essentially url teaches you how to recognize 84 different candlestick patterns. Once you see one of the patterns on your chart you can then initiate your trades. ...

Jay's Candle Sticker System

Due to the actions of last month, I have decided to change my trading strategy somewhat. Future orders will be preloaded with risk instead of adding risk as the trade moves into favor. Basically, I'm going to start with a full lot and add to the ...

FunAccount Trades Discussion!

Buy on confirmed bullish candlestick patterns, sell on confirmed bearish candlestick formations. Increase and add to the position when winning.

is there any profitable strategy?

I guess they turned me commercial, I don't see my account on the leaderboard anymore even though my returns support a position on the monthly board.

FunAccount Trades Discussion!

Yeah, I have wiped the account multiple times over the past five years.

FunAccount Trades Discussion!

Not sure, what would be the effects?

FunAccount Trades Discussion!

Let me explain that some more. If you have a valid instance where you have taken this trade in the past let me know the date, timeframe, and currency pair and I can backtest the expert over that same time and see if it would have taken the trade. ...

The Bollinger Squeeze (TBS) Strategy

If you have an instance where a trade should have happened let me know the settings and I can run a backtest and see if the expert would have taken that trade. It may need to be adjusted somewhat.

The Bollinger Squeeze (TBS) Strategy

Yes, you can run a backtest, but those specific conditions that you require do not seem to come up all that often.

The Bollinger Squeeze (TBS) Strategy

Ok, I guess it is time for me to stop tinkering with the expert advisor that I made to trade this strategy. I'm not happy with the way that it trades, maybe there is something that I missed about this strategy, please take a look at your leisure. ...

The Bollinger Squeeze (TBS) Strategy

Of particular interest to me would be where do you think it is best to place the initial stop-loss? I'm thinking the highest high for the last N periods for sells or the lowest low for the last N periods for buys. Maybe N should be 10 or 100?

The Bollinger Squeeze (TBS) Strategy

Hi makemo8, Thanks for presenting us your strategy. I'm thinking about coding it up in an expert advisor. Concerning the price touching the upper or lower BB band does it matter in what direction it touches. Let's say the price crosses from below ...

The Bollinger Squeeze (TBS) Strategy

Try url it is a configurable swing high and low point detector.

Need Swing High/low indicator for mt4

Just typed up this thing for a stats project. //+------------------------------------------------------------------+ //| StatsProject.mq4 | //| John Davis | //| http://512jay.blogspot.com/ | ...

How to calculate standard deviation?