Very interesting! — Very interesting! In the thread url we have a trader who claims a 100% win rate using a mechanical, TA-based system (even if his claim is thus far unsubstantiated), while the initiator of this thread claims that even a ...

Honest answers please! Are you successful trading on Forex or not?

I'm baling out — This is just to let everybody know that I will no longer be keeping this data up to date. I've decided to end my interest in analysis and trading, in order to get on with my life. The MQ4, XLS, and CSV files are all here for ...

FFcal - Plot News indicator

News.CSV for upcoming week — In the attached ZIP file, News.CSV has been updated to reflect all "Actual" announcement values for events up to Sat Feb 24, and will also cause objects to be placed for all news events currently listed on the FF ...

FFcal - Plot News indicator

Version 2, plus news events for the coming week — The attached ZIP includes Version 2.0 of Plot_News indicator, and News.CSV. [Note: these override files attached in all prior posts in this thread] News.CSV has been updated to reflect all ...

FFcal - Plot News indicator

Some excellent posts in this thread — Ricardo, your question here has elicited some great responses; there are some excellent posts here. I will add my 2 pips worth, although bear in mind that I am still very much in the learning process ...

Traders and Their Systems

Update to News.CSV file for week beginning Sunday Feb 11 — The attached ZIP contains the latest News.CSV and Plot_News.MQ4 files. News.CSV contains updates to last week's "Actual" values, and all FF calendar values for the upcoming week. I ...

FFcal - Plot News indicator

Counter-productive? — It's very true that trading real money creates new psychological issues, and that establishing one's emotional comfort zone, in terms of risk, is a crucial part of the learning process. But I nonetheless believe that ...

Why Paper Trading Is Counter Productive

MACD histogram — TEB63, thanks for sharing your trend following system. It should work well enough, provided that prices don't move sideways, generating "false" SAR signals, too frequently. Probably better, then, to trade the sessions when ...

new system - not "LOL"

Adam141, many thanks for the feedback. Best wishes David

FFcal - Plot News indicator

I remember reading this in Dr Tharp’s book. Chuck Le Beau tells a similar anecdote about a guy who based his entries from signals given by an antenna in a Coke bottle, but apparently traded profitably because his exit method was sound. Interviewed ...

Random entry proves strength of money management.

Indicators & objects windows — In addition to my earlier post........ Press Ctrl-I to get the Indicators window, or Ctrl-B to get the Objects window. These windows operate a little differently from each other. In the Indicators window, ...

MT Information (Programming, Backtesting, Tips ...)

Duplicate object names solution — I believe I’ve fixed the bug I mentioned in the ‘STOP PRESS’ section in post #1. It seems that MT4 disallows duplicate object names, hence when the “Unemployment Claims” event comes out at the same time every ...

FFcal - Plot News indicator

Timezone adjustment solution — The attached ZIP contains an updated version of FF_calendar_converter.XLS that adjusts the time entries for you, if the time scale (horizontal axis) in your MT4 charts is not GMT/UTC based. Simply enter in the ...

FFcal - Plot News indicator

Screenshot — In the attched ZIP is a screenshot showing both the Sessions and Plot_News indicators operating together. Note how Plot_News plots the circular symbols both in the past, and future. If you hover the mouse cursor over any news ...

FFcal - Plot News indicator

Dariuske, thanks for your efforts — I've just discovered this thread, after posting my own news event plotting solution here: url Dariuske, thanks for your efforts - I will check out your link, also. Cheers David

News indicator request

Nice system! — Boxing, for whatever my opinion is worth, I just wanted to say that I think you've got a very sound system here – although I guess you already know that! Yours is one of the methods that I'm looking to trial over the next few ...

bringin sexy back - stochastics

Elliott waves — I wasn't suggesting that we get involved with Elliott wave complexities, other than the idea that the first wave in a sustained trend is frequently shorter than the subsequent ones. David

The Bat...a strategy by Team Aphid

Thanks TA for testing trend filter — Interesting. Of course I don't have the trade-by-trade details of your test results, but I suspect this means that some of the biggest moves are being filtered out (if I understand correctly, BAT trade #1s ...

The Bat...a strategy by Team Aphid

Betting systems XLS — The attached ZIP contains an XLS that allows you to experiment with different betting systems across 6 trials (trades), where you set the win rate of the system. The yellow background cells are the ones that require your ...

Heiken-Ashi System