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- jay320 replied May 19, 2010
I'm not sure if this is exactly what I'm intending... what you're saying is that it just deletes the first level when it gets to the second? I'll start demo testing and hopefully I can answer this myself.
- jay320 replied May 18, 2010
Great job! This will really help me learn. -J
- jay320 replied May 18, 2010
This is a martingale system, meaning you double down on every level. Recovery was something invented by nanningbob to stop the doubling down and instead take losses, so you don't blow up your account. If you want a more detailed explanation, check ...
- jay320 replied May 18, 2010
Wow — Walk away from the thread for a day and just look at all this activity. First, you guys hit on exactly the idea i had yesterday, that is, a jumping stop order for the first level. For those who don't know what I mean, let me try to ...
- jay320 replied May 15, 2010
New Twist to Demo this Sun — Hey all, I'm going to be demoing a little twist on this strategy next week. If you open the inputs of the EA and go down to "other settings," you'll see there's an option to reverse the order type, i.e., buys ...
- jay320 replied May 14, 2010
so if I get this right, the channel is basically the range of high/low over a certain # of bars? And I guess the line squiggles because it doesn't repaint with fresh horizontal lines like our ea? nice contribution as always and EPIC intro.
- jay320 replied May 14, 2010
I haven't even tried backtesting it, because my strategy is to run this as a semiautomatic EA. The whole "stop order" thing is almost useless if there isn't a person behind the wheel--the computer can't decide that a certain trade is looking bad and ...
- jay320 replied May 13, 2010
Nope. That input takes the already-calcuated "pips" variable, multiplies it by what you put in there, and rounds it. It shouldn't matter 4 or 5 digit.
- jay320 replied May 13, 2010
Sorry my reference was kinda small.
- jay320 replied May 12, 2010
I know in the past I haven't been able to get people enthusiastic about the potential of stops. But I honestly believe the use of stops/stopgaps represents the best and most simple solution to the big loser trades we experienced last week. That is, ...
- jay320 replied May 11, 2010
Hmm I'm kind of nervous with all the prices heading toward the middle on the 4H chart. Calm before another storm?
- jay320 replied May 11, 2010
Back in the market — I've cranked up the EA's again, but on limited pairs and with conservative settings. This is also the first time I'll have traded the Stop Ratio EA live. I have it set currently at 0.4.
- jay320 replied May 6, 2010
Blue, Thanks for the support, although truly I was writing more in amazement than emotion. The damage to my account wasn't bad at all, perhaps a few hundred dollars; however, the damage to my confidence in being able to trade as a full time job is ...
- jay320 replied May 6, 2010
Wow. — It's days like this that makes a new-ish trader like me think he's chose the wrong line of work. I'm currently locked out of my platfrom; the backend looks like my broker closed all the open trades, which would be a huge loss for me. ...
- jay320 replied May 6, 2010
Bob, I use ATC Brokers. They are an ECN but they've managed to wire their platform so that you can put in orders with SL and TP--basically all your robots run perfectly. AND they allow hedging. But how would hedging work here? Would it replace the ...
- jay320 replied May 6, 2010
First, I'm curious as to how limit orders would have helped... second, I believe a limit order feature is already built in... check the inputs.
- jay320 replied May 5, 2010
Ok, so NZ unemployment rate improves 1.3% from 7.3 to 6.0. A/N continues to tank. When this and CHF/JPY recover, I think i'll lick my wounds on the sidelines for the rest of the week with the NFP bomb coming on Fri. Update: I'm now 3 levels in ...
- jay320 replied May 5, 2010
Forex giveth.. — It's definitely a mess. I'm now 2 levels deep in recovery for AUD/NZD and at the first for CHF/JPY. With the NZD flare up and now the CHF wreck, it looks like I'll be giving back a large portion of my gains from the previous ...
- jay320 replied May 5, 2010
Do you think this is bringing down CHF too?
- jay320 replied May 4, 2010
Sorry to politicize here, but I agree with you all for different reasons. The US has had a policy of economic imperialism since the turn of the 20th century and the IMF is a direct extension of that policy. I know there are those out there who would ...