Thanks, I had a quick look, it appears I'm doing something quite similar to your idea, though I will be looking more into your idea as it would gel well with mine. Are you The Rumpled One? I remember listening to you on podcast a while back, I ...

I will code your EAs and Indicators for no charge

Hi guys, I'm looking for an MT4 indicator which will alert me when price crosses/touches the Daily Open price AFTER making a high or low of 'X' pips first. So for example, if I enter 5 pips as a parameter, and price makes a high or low of 5 pips or ...

I will code your EAs and Indicators for no charge

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Swap costs on hedge trades

Right, less cumbersome that I thought to just calculate manually every time ;-) I just looked in the contract window on my cTrader platform (see picture). It tells me the pip value anyway, but the swap is given in pips. So is it answering my ...

Swap costs on hedge trades

Thanks for the info. That's exactly what I meant about hidden costs, I wasn't aware of monthly rollover etc.. About the swap, it's the points that were confusing me. I'd rather be able to see the swap costs in monetary terms rather than points. Some ...

Swap costs on hedge trades

Thanks. What was confusing me is that the swap values are given in points. I like to calculate costs into a strategy in pips if possible. For example, swap costs on a 1 lot trade on most majors/crosses will cost me around 1-2 pips daily (or 2-4 pips ...

Swap costs on hedge trades

Thanks guys, I feared it wasn't so simple as the pos/neg swaps would cancel each other out. I don't trade exotics and my hedging strategy is probably 80% intraday hedging. Just sometimes I need to hold for a day or two or over a weekend. Cheers :-)

Swap costs on hedge trades

Hi all, I've been learning to trade for a couple of years on demo and have just discovered the world of order flow (yay!) and found this great thread :-) It seems obvious to me that order flow analysis is a good way to find edge in the markets. I ...

Discussions on Order Flow/Volume

It did help, prompted me to check my charts again and I just realized that I'd changed to Heikin Ashi candles this morning after watching Trading ATS on youtube. I was curious as to what the chart looked like with HA candles but had forgotten to ...

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