Gifog, if this hinges on 'pressing that little green button' rather than grabbing the calendar as a whole, then I'm afraid I cannot help. David

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Amen. High leverage = high return = high risk. At 100:1 leverage anything is possible, especially across a small enough sample of trades. Consistency is key..... Quoting return on its own is meaningless...... Efficiency is dollars returned for every ...

What is your annual ROI goal?

I have no set goals....... — As a newbie trader, I have no set goals. The best I can do is to make what I believe are, to the best of my knowledge, high probability entries; manage risk; and maintain as much emotional detachment as possible. ...

What is your annual ROI goal?

Spindrift, thanks very much for your comprehensive reply. You've filled in many gaps in my knowledge as to how different types of brokers operate. Much appreciated. David

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Hi Gifog As you’re probably aware, the process of grabbing and processing the calendar is written in Clarion, not MQL4. That is largely because my MQL4 experience is very limited. (At some point, if I ever have the luxury of several consecutive ...

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Programatically I believe I could achieve this, but it would mean polling the FF calendar/website repeatedly during (what I assume is) their busiest period, to download the calendar and then extract the data. I expect that (1) downloading the ...

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Thank you, Moh, for this excellent thread — Hi Moh Thank you for this excellent thread. I definitely agree with you that a positive expectancy method (i.e. involving entries and exits) is a prerequisite for profitable trading; whereas many ...

Money Management 101

My sixpence worth........ — Here is what I believe is the correct theoretical answer. What is workably practical may, or may not, be different. Exit involves balancing the following considerations: 1. Maximizing overall profitability If we ...

To Trailing Stop or Not To Trailing Stop....

I posted some of my MONOPOLY strats here: url Agreed, the analogy between casino games and trading would seem to break down primarily because probabilities can be calculated accurately for the former, and in advance of any given play. Almost ...

Intimidated by the Charts

Leqwedz, you might also like to try here: url Gives a good overview on how FX works, explains the terminology (pips, lots, swap, leverage, etc), some basic fundamental and technical analysis (FA, TA), and the importance of money management. Good ...

lessons 101

Hi Spindrift These days I'm pretty busy trading a live account, and also some other (non-forex) software development work. However, if enough people are enthusiastic about having an idea implemented, and can explain clearly enough what they require, ...

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Hi Dave I just tried to post my MONOPOLY strategy into the Members Lounge, but somehow it finished up on the James16 private forum discussion group. I unsubscribed from the PF back in February, because due to ill-health I didn't have time to read ...

Intimidated by the Charts

Broker research — I agree that the impact of costs are generally underestimated by (especially intraday) traders, hence a lower spread can ultimately have a significant overall effect. However, I see your reference to CrownForex, and I suggest ...

Intimidated by the Charts

Hi Mike This is how I would very much like to view trading. I'm still working on a system that wins more than 50% of the time (or at least where the combination of win rate and win size gives a long term profit). I may be very close, but it's way ...

Intimidated by the Charts

Thanks again, Dave — In 1992 I had the good luck to win the New Zealand MONOPOLY championship and an expenses paid trip to represent NZ in the world champs in Berlin (where I finished 13th out of 35 countries represented, for whatever that's ...

Intimidated by the Charts

Hi Josh Don’t want to get off-topic, especially as this is your journal, but after reading the 'breakthroughs' in your first post, I just want to endorse that Trading in the Zone is an excellent read (I especially learned a a huge amount from ...

Josh's Journal (JoshDance)

Brendan, thanks for sharing your system — Hi Brendan Thanks for sharing. I've read your very well-written Word doc and, for whatever my opinion is worth, you've developed a very solid trend following system. There are pros and cons of trading ...

The "Weighted Taylor" Method

Another thread that might be worth a read — Fatdragon88, In addition to the James16 material, here's another thread that might be worth a read: url Jacko generously describes his method in the first few posts of this thread. It sounds like ...

Intimidated by the Charts

Thanks, Dave — Hi Dave Thanks for your comprehensive and complimentary reply. Sometimes it feels very much like I'm a lone voice here, so it's especially gratifying to find somebody who shares my apparently unconventional angle, one that I ...

Intimidated by the Charts

Fatdragon88, I'm not familiar with the system that you describe. If you want to try this system, all I can suggest is that you read all of the threads related to it. I did a search for "part time wealth" and found these: url url url url ...

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