Personally I think MM strategy is the KEY in FX

GBP/USD - one trade a day

The two EAs you just quoted are very poor and have a longterm negative expectation, so I'd drop them now before you lose too much.

GBP/USD - one trade a day

Excellent

Sixths trading - an EA by macman, Bob and Steve mk 2

I've abandoned all my back and forward testing of the Phantom EAs. Although in many instances they were looking OK, there have been a number of backtests in 2009 I did for 03bx that turned bad. But my main issue is that I dont understand the logic ...

Phantom 6 System

Nice one wolf. How many trades altogether ? I'm finding very few trades, although this isn't a problem as 75% or so are winning ones. I've abandoned my Phantom EA testing simply because I still don't really understand the logic behind them and have ...

Sixths trading - an EA by macman, Bob and Steve mk 2

Nice answer, so thanks. Of course ANY idea is worth testing and I hope it works out for you. I just feel that 10% a month is a huge expectation and is why so many new traders fail - they start with too high expectations and too little money. Best of ...

GBP/USD - one trade a day

In the opening post you say : " The Beast is the latest version with the 'virtual' pending trades, Normal, Aggressive and gspe trading styles. This is not quite ready for live accounts yet." and " I am abandoning further development of The Beast for ...

Sixths trading - an EA by macman, Bob and Steve mk 2

What evidence do you have that you are able to take 10% a month out of this market ? Do you appreciate how astronomical an edge that is ?

GBP/USD - one trade a day

You're right but I'm learning, thanks to helpful posts like this. Thanks

GoToBar Indicator/EA routine

I've actually found that JForex has just what I need so will use that platform instead. Its much more intuitive a method for getting from place to place on a chart. Metacoder need to do something about this as its quite a weakness in their charting.

GoToBar Indicator/EA routine

jag, do you by any chance have any of your Phantom EAs in java versions so I can backtest them in JForex ? I'm still persuing testing 03bx but using shorter time periods (so its faster at doing each one and I can do more tests, starting off at ...

Jag's Phantom 6 System

Just a word of caution to those who like this idea, since the last trade in the xls file 'Updated Gap Backtest' I reckon for all 4 pairs covered there have been 8 trades up to and including 2nd Jan. 5 have been losers and 3 winners. So take care.....

Gap Trading

Although I hate to use the dirty word 'optimisation', could you not have these functions as optimisable and then backtest ? You could also include 'number of bars' before exiting. But you are right in that a good looking idea doesnt always make a ...

Gap Trading

D'you think a reasonable exit strategy would be a user-defined X% of the gap and a Ypips SL ? Although this would be simple to include in MPTM which could be used to close the trades.

Gap Trading

I'll do that. I'm always happy to learn (and change my opinion !).

Jag's Phantom 6 System

We'll probably have to agree to disagree about trends because I believe they are a figment of over active imaginations and they dont actually exist. They do with hindsight of course but that's about it. Anyway, my last 03bx basket I'm trading on my ...

Jag's Phantom 6 System

Whilst I like the idea of trading stats, has anyone actually looked at why these gaps sometimes appear and sometimes don't ? For instance if there's been some disastrous news for the $ over the weekend surely there'd be no point in try to trade a ...

Gap Trading