I'm really glad to see more in depth analysis of position sizing. Markets change from sideways periods to trending periods and from low volatility to high volatility and all permutations of these scenarios. I like the idea of increased risk during ...

Generalized Fixed Ratio MM

to narafa. That was incredibly well put, you applied the concepts from Van Tharp's book on position sizing in a manner that I can practically apply to these currency markets. I fully understand how it meets all of Van Tharp's recommended strategies. ...

MM by Van Tharp

It seems that more people are interested in breaking free from the social system that has been in place since civilization began. Haven't people noticed that for the past 5000 years society has always been structured around oppressors and those ...

Let's talk future and solutions

I like how you keep things simple and that is very useful. You're also adaptive to the market which is even more important. I think this is a great approach. In the end I see why you can have such a high success rate. It is a little deceptive though ...

How people should really trade!

sorry to bother you again Monaco but how do you determine the drawdown. Do you create an equity curve and inspect the areas where it peaked and subsequently bottomed? The range of those two points is the drawdown Do you have a better way of going ...

Measuring Trading Performance

i'm definitely looking into the sharpe ratio, thanks guys. The distribution of the returns is also very interesting. I can see the importance of determining the return you get 90% of the time this way you see how consistent your performance really ...

Measuring Trading Performance

perfect thank you for your time

Inside Bar Trading Technique

damonl thanks for your support. I just want to get a clear understanding of what you're trying to show here. once and inside bar is formed you place a buy when previous day high is penetrated by 1 pip. You have an initial SL of 100 or the previous ...

Inside Bar Trading Technique

rathcoole what is your problem. I'm just trying to grasp the concept because its something i'm interested in. I don't appreciate your negativity and you can piss off

Inside Bar Trading Technique

sorry that i wasn't more clear in the last post. Here is a char with 1 hour candles the dotted lines are daily opens the blue and red boxes represent the high and low for that day I have redone the chart that I posted. Are these valid inside bars?

Inside Bar Trading Technique

your response was much appreciated. The funny thing is that I've had an idea regarding daily opens and prices relation to this level. Here's a screen of my charts and I've circled what I believe are inside bars. I've noticed that the daily opens are ...

Inside Bar Trading Technique

On your earlier post I was a little confused as to what you meant by inside bar. Would you mind elaborating?

Inside Bar Trading Technique

now look on the EUR/USD here is a good setup but the price did not retrace enough to send the 15min -- 5/50 ema to cross long and then cross short instead, the only crosses of this nature happened on the 5 min chart: you can see it on the orange ...

Where would you place the trade?

well taking another look at the same EUR/JPY trade posted above, there is a lesson to be learned notice how the white vertical lines on all charts have the 5 ema over the 50 ema and the slopes are all positive except for the 5 ema on the 15 min ...

Where would you place the trade?

to let you know, I haven't traded this setup but maybe I should, what do you think? Is it worth trading? Mind you I'll be honest I've been trading live for 8 months now. I have just been floating around even ever since I started. Any suggestions? ...

Where would you place the trade?

how about the big setup of the week gentlemen gpd/usd -- lot of pips 4hr --- 5/50 ema cross is the white vertical line in the charts 15MIN ---- 5/50 ema cross is the red let me see if I can find a failure of this setup during the week

Where would you place the trade?

how about this setup on the USD/JPY which happened a day or two earlier again 5/50 ema cross on the 4hr chart is the white vertical line on all 4 charts 15MIN --- 5/50 ema cross is in red here are the charts, where would you have entered long?

Where would you place the trade?

Here's a better picture of all the relevant charts and the setup. Again we're only using 5ema with 50 ema on all the charts. The white vertical line represents the 4hr 5/50 ema cross The red line represents the 15MIN 5/50 ema cross where would you ...

Where would you place the trade?