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- hxcjf replied Oct 10, 2012
Donchian Breakout with a flair — input: AccountSize(100000), {size of trading account in dollars} AcctRisk(.01), {% Risk per trade} ATRMult(2), {Stop size in multiples of the average range} EntryLength(40), {Trade on a break of the highest ...
- hxcjf replied Oct 3, 2012
Barbossa, True, classic Donchian channel trading has pretty broad stops. I trade it differently, as I will show. I've tested around a thousand concepts and I found about 50 that work, but only about 5 that I actually trade live. I found that very ...
- hxcjf replied Oct 2, 2012
MT4 — True, many people still like MT4, and its a great basic platform for charting but horrible for coding. The execution algorithms are designed to protect brokers, not traders. There is so much manipulation of execution prices that its ...
- hxcjf replied Sep 30, 2012
Update — FF Community, I'm back and decided to do a series on strategy coding and development. I decided to go to law school so I've been really busy but I'm going to try and make time to put out some ideas on how I develop profitable ...
- hxcjf replied Apr 28, 2011
Top 5 Ways to Discern Whether an FX company is legit. — Here are the top 5 ways to tell if a Forex trading company is legit. 1. They are professional traders. How can you make a living off it if they're not? 2. You have to sign a ...
- hxcjf replied Apr 27, 2011
Answer — So the answers are as follows: A. 1.5 PF B. 1.5 PF C. 2.14 PF D. 2.25 PF So the correct answer is D. For every dollar risked, it returns 2.25 dollars and provides the best edge.
- hxcjf replied Apr 26, 2011
Are you trader material? — The one thing that traders must be good at is calculating mathematical odds to apply the best edge they can. You want an edge that returns the most per dollar risked. What are the profit factors of the following ...
- hxcjf replied Apr 25, 2011
Hall of Shame — Let me tell you about the worst trade I never took. In the summer of 2009 the Swiss National Bank was trying to hold the EURCHF above 1.5000 and they would intervene whenever it came close. They intervened about 4 times. I ...
- hxcjf replied Apr 24, 2011
The Patsy Principle — The Patsy Principle There are thousands of markets in the world, from FX to options to stocks to weather futures to debt instruments. How do we decide which market provides the best edge, and how do we exploit that edge? ...
- hxcjf replied Nov 27, 2010
So it was a losing week. The number of pips is completely irrelevant; its all about $ risked versus $ returned. Be a trader, manage your risk, trust your strategy, and have the capital to come back and play next week and the next till you hit those ...
- hxcjf replied Nov 26, 2010
And now for the moment you've all been waiting for! — Hello everyone, I hope you all had a great thanksgiving with your families. Transzorb has done a truly remarkable job creating an indicator for us that will put us all on the same page and ...
- hxcjf replied Nov 23, 2010
It is always the simplest approaches that pay the best. I found in testing that although certain parameters worked better than others, they were all profitable, and the bottom line is that the underlying philosophy behind the strategies, that chaos ...
- hxcjf replied Nov 22, 2010
testing... — Hi Transzorb, Thanks for helping. It looks like it has the correct inputs, but I can't get any lines to appear on my chart. Am I doing it correctly? Say if I put it on the GBPJPY, testing the breakout of the candle that opens at ...
- hxcjf replied Nov 20, 2010
I have been a long-time follower of Joel...the VBO methods work. I have developed some of my own models on more markets, which you can check out here: url If anyone can help me create the indicator I need, please let me know.
- hxcjf replied Jan 22, 2010
I've been away for a bit, but that looks really good Hayseed. If you want to post it, I'll look over it and make sure that it'll work for this method, and then post the whole enchilada in the system thread. Thanks, Hxcjf
- hxcjf replied Jan 15, 2010
yes, it works very well to spot breakout opportunities
- hxcjf replied Jan 15, 2010
Yes, exactly...but it would be good if it only did it once every X periods (say if the alarm went off anytime in the last X candles, it would not go off again). Otherwise you could get bombarded.
- hxcjf replied Jan 14, 2010
Thank you, I figured that it would be a simple coding project. Once we have the proper alarm, I will repost the entire method with all the relevant information in the system forum for all to use. It is difficult to trade without the alarm, and this ...
- hxcjf replied Jan 14, 2010
It can be coded either way. I'm looking for just an alarm, not an EA. Thanks.
- hxcjf replied Oct 12, 2009
I ran a Micro account from $500 to over $2000 and everything worked fine. Sure the spreads widen for news, but so does Currenex. My only complaint was that the price feed was very spastic. The interbank Currenex price feed is much quieter and more ...