Oanda has some exotics, such as THB, ZAR, MXN, HUF, HKD, and various Kroner. They also have Gold and Silver. Also, Interactive Brokers have some of these same exotics as well. The problem with exotics is the spread is huge because of low liquidity, ...

Need advice on lesser traded pairs

Another option is to put your buy/sell order on the PSAR dot just before it got triggered, or the High/Low of trigger bar, whichever is highest (short)/lowest (long). It looks like you get in at a better price, but don't increase risk too much.

Bodger SAR Method

The story of the previous four years of my life.

Bodger SAR Method

Yep. Isn't that pathetic? When they decided to go into the FOREX market three years ago, they white labeled through RJ O'Brien. Then they suddenly switched white labels to GAIN capital several months after that, which sucked, because their data ...

Question Concerning Tradestation

Dedicated server as in at home, or over at TS's location? I don't think they have that option for the latter, because several people I talked to on the TS forum sometimes use multiple data sources, such as Interactive Brokers, myTrack, IQdata, etc. ...

Question Concerning Tradestation

The indicator I had on TS a couple of years ago, made some complicated formula to pit all paired combinations of certain currencies together, so that if you took the number of one of these lines and divided by another, it would be the exact price ...

multi-pair percentage scale charts

You can trade the pair that corresponds to the weakest/strongest currency on the chart. In the first example, the weakest currency was the CHF, and the strongest was USD. In that case, I would buy USDCHF. In the second example, the CHF was weak ...

multi-pair percentage scale charts

That's pretty cool. I did this once in TradeStation, but I had to code the sync in EL, and it was kind of unwieldy... then I lost the EL code. What program are you using?

multi-pair percentage scale charts

Co-incidentally, the Momentum indicator is the same thing as the slope of a SMA, but with a different scale. I know some people here like to buy/sell when the slope of an MA changes. For SMAs, this point happens when the Momentum crosses the zero ...

Eagle Method MA Crossover System

Yet he gained over $2B before he lost that $1B. By your logic, maybe we shouldn't use charts because the chart's exit signal or trailing stop will cause you to lose a part of your profits.

Do you trade with or without a chart?

Yep... a 28 period MA is significantly different than a 14 period MA, so you would expect a significant difference in performance. Going from 14 to 17, however, is much less of a change, and there shouldn't be a huge difference in performance. It ...

"curve fitting" or just improving??

And likewise, would this work with say any major pair that doesn't involve EUR when numbers from the European bank come out? I'm not sure, but that's something worth looking into as well. Since the NFP only affects the USD directly, it's not likely ...

Fade NFP Effects On Crosses

Damn... that's a good idea. The reason why it works is because when banks, corporations, etc. (y'know the guys who make up 99% of the market volume in FOREX that you should be paying attention to) put in orders, they usually swap one currency for a ...

Fade NFP Effects On Crosses

Some simple things you can do to make sure you're not curve fitting: -- Try different markets. If you're testing it on just the EURUSD, see how well it performs on USDJPY, GBPUSD, etc. -- Try different times. Use a block of data further in the past ...

"curve fitting" or just improving??

This sounds like a story from the movie What the %^*# do We Know?, which blends pseudo-science New Age talk with quantum physics. The site Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics shows what is wrong with this movie.

Quantum Physics and trading forex

...and you can bet your ass that the exchanges are re-adjusting the prices on new GBPUSD options to increase the premium. Finding volatility arbitrage in options (when actual price volatility is greater or less than implied volatility) is nothing ...

Options hedge for profit

Currency futures have interest rates built into the price, which is why you never have to worry about carry trades in that market. On top of that, the time decay of options not only depends upon volatility but current interest rates on the dollar as ...

Options on currency futures as a hedge?

Stochastics is various MAs of %R. There are no MAs in %R. %R is basically where the closing price is within a Donchian Channel (Highest High, Lowest Low of x periods). This is true... however, by co-incidence the slope of an SMA of x periods is ...

How many of Technical Analysis based systems are junk?

...and MAs are just filters of price action. I used to work with satellite data, so I know a few things about signal processing and whatnot. The EMA is a type of filter actually used to take out noise from an electronic signal. MAs are no more ...

How many of Technical Analysis based systems are junk?

Oscillators in general are meant for "counter-trend" trades... basically the little peaks and valleys you see in the longer term trend. They work great in sideways markets, but only work in trending markets if you trade with the trend. This is ...

Eagle Method MA Crossover System