You keep spewing statistics that are of no value to profitable trading. Is it your desire to become an exchange, broker, or regulator? If yes, then okay. If no, then you are studying the wrong stuff and completely wasting your time.

Should I quit trading forex?

Your thread started one way, which I could advise, but now is something entirely different which I don't understand at all. Was going to show you a pic to get you back on-course, but you are so lost in drawing lines now, I am not sure it matters. ...

ZigZag Charm

Probably the thing to consider is does a $30B daily stock market strategy transfer to a $5T daily currency market strategy? Mine did not. They also dabbled in commodities, from reading the pdf, and you know those have different measurements and ...

Is anyone trading by the legendary turtle strategy?

I didn't like that style because I was more familiar with a different approach to measure movement, and I wanted it to be as hands-free as possible. I stick to the middle, and trade as price moves up and down from it. Without mathematical analysis, ...

My Forex Experience

In my perusing of various trading systems, the majority seem to be the same. They make support/resistance lines based on dead trades, occasionally make diagonal trend lines, then wait for price to touch a line or punch through it. The more advanced ...

My Forex Experience

Of course, it depends on your business plan. I had specific goals and designed my trading system to match. I wanted to be able to compound so I could diversify. I also required my entry and exit to be the same value. That significantly lowers my ...

My Forex Experience

First, that is pretty paranoid as those are extremely rare. For me, I was on the correct side of the one I have seen. Most of the time they spike, which means they don't do any damage. The ones that gap are the ones that kill you. I have only seen ...

My Forex Experience

Be sure to prove your plan works before risking any money. I have heard some people say the opposite, but since it is "HIGHLY" unlikely you will have a profitable strategy at first, then do your due diligence and check it out first. It will be more ...

Putting a Gun to your Head - 1 Piece of Trading Advice

All valid points for a rookie. Once you have a trading strategy though, you can risk whatever you can afford, and not be scared to do it. Yes? From my interaction with traders, or wannabe traders, in various markets, they all tend to do the same ...

My Forex Experience

Hello. I stopped reading at page 2, so sorry if I cover something already discussed. Since you prefer to trade technical analysis, then I recommend using a tool that tracks news releases so you can be aware of possible areas where your trade might ...

5 years and still no strategy

This looks very similar to Tom Yeoman's currency indicator. The text is in a different location and his allows you to pick and choose your currencies which lowers your CPU resources. As well, the input periods are easy to change, and the 0 line can ...

Currency Strength Indicator Trading

I see why you need large amounts of data now, especially if you enjoy counting cards. I know the big picture data but prefer to trade within it, so I use less data than probably 95% of FF members, lol. It does not take me much data to make ...

Why Technical Analysis Wins

Everyone has their own criteria for confidence. I would caution you though, that no matter what you discover, putting your money on the line is an additional change. I grew up in the Midwest and was never subjected to much gambling, so after I found ...

Why Technical Analysis Wins

Good question. I used historical data to test theories. If they looked appropriate, then I would use months and months and months of demo trading the live market across multiple currencies to fine tune it. My objective was consistency. It took a ...

Why Technical Analysis Wins

I am honestly not sure what to think of this thread, real or unreal? It does seem like a used car salesman personality though. I will pay you in "intangibles", lol. Okay, despite the obvious greed involved, you might consider alternatives to finding ...

Opportunity for coding

TickerTV, url is interesting and you can even set up your own broadcast.

Forex Radio/TV

What you may not be aware of, and most other backtesters, is the math adjusts itself as more data is collected. Many traders will make statements like "Indicators are Lagging", LOL, when anyone can see they update on every tick, or candle, depending ...

How to make a living with trading?

I suppose it depends on your technique. I observe many head fakes which a bot would not have a clue about. It would likely open the trade and lose while additionally incurring more spread costs. Based on my analysis, I have to disagree with your ...

How to make a living with trading?