To be clear, when I ask if other people have done successful, live trading with EAs, I don't expect that most of them will have found those EAs in forums or in any other public venue. I am quite certain that the EAs you download for free are almost ...

YOUR results with live, fully-automated EAs??

When you say "where you must look for them" are you referring to a specific location? Like a particular web site or vendor? Or are you referring more esoterically to a particular style/strategy of EA? I'm asking because I've always figured that if I ...

YOUR results with live, fully-automated EAs??

What is "a long time"? — Thank you for the feedback. Could you please define "a long time"? Months? Years? I'm sorry to sound anal retentive, but part of my reason for starting this thread is that there are so many people out there ...

YOUR results with live, fully-automated EAs??

Exactly the kind of feedback I'm looking for. Thanks.

YOUR results with live, fully-automated EAs??

Thanks, but there's no explanation necessary. I'm not asking if the stock market is a zero sum game. I know definitively that it is not. Here are some quick references: url url url Notice in the last link that there is an important point made: ...

Got into a discussion with someone, he says forex is inherently a losing game

He's absolutely correct, although his logic is a bit off. Stocks do, in the (sometimes very) long run, have a net positive expectation. This is not because their underlying companies are so great. It is because the stock market (like the real estate ...

Got into a discussion with someone, he says forex is inherently a losing game

A possible approach — I believe it is best to know how you are going to exit a trade before you ever open it. If you're constantly looking at your open positions and making gut calls as to whether they should be closed, I think it is quite ...

Let your profits run...

Depressing insight from FXDD — I was at a conference last week and I had a chance to chat with some of the guys from FXDD. Although I don't trade with FXDD, I still wanted to get some viewpoints from guys who are actually working in the ...

Could 10:1 be the new leverage in US Forex?

It's about the STOPS — I don't think many people involved in this discussion really understand the impact of 10:1 on the typical trader. I've seen so many comments from traders saying that they don't use more than 10:1 so who cares? But you ...

Could 10:1 be the new leverage in US Forex?

Ditto here. Before they simply deleted a big batch of my open demo trades, I was already growing exasperated because my trade requests were constantly getting busy and common-error messages.

Trouble With FXCM Servers

Demo trades disappeared — I was using an FXCM demo account to forward-test an EA strategy for the last several days. (I also have several hundred dollars sitting in a live account with them, but I'm not doing anything with it at the time ...

Trouble With FXCM Servers

System X - Day 2 — Sell 1.1 AUDCAD @ 0.8990, SL 0.9028, TP 0.8952 Sell 2.6 CHFJPY @ 99.42, SL 99.66, TP 99.18 Sell 1.1 EURCAD @ 1.4263, SL 1.4315, TP 1.4211 Sell 1.1 EURCHF @ 1.6658, SL 1.6684, TP 1.6632 Sell 1.7 EURJPY @ 165.64, SL 166.10, TP ...

Bytebodger's Pip-Burning Journal

19 pairs and nothing to trade — Day 2 of the System X experiment and I have NO trades. Oh well. Just have to wait things out. Backtesting shows me that days like today are relatively rare, but of course, they do happen. I'm not about to jump ...

Bytebodger's Pip-Burning Journal

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FOZZY Method CROSSES

System X - Day 1 — Sell 1.3 EURAUD @ 1.5894, SL 1.5944, TP 1.5844 = (-51 gross pips, -66 net pips, -$55.51) Sell 6.1 USDCHF @ 1.2420, SL 1.2451, TP 1.2389 = (+32 gross pips, +195 net pips, +$157.57) Tally Gross Pips: -19 Net Pips: +129 P/L: ...

Bytebodger's Pip-Burning Journal

System X — There's some old saying about how love supposedly finds you when you're not really looking for it. I'm starting to think that the same can be said about system development. When I first began this adventure, I had my own dreams ...

Bytebodger's Pip-Burning Journal

Manual backtesting can be dangerously misleading — In my recent adventures, I have really had my eyes opened with regard to manual backtesting. Like so many people here, I have spent many, MANY, MANY hours over the last 4-5 months manually ...

Bytebodger's Pip-Burning Journal

SLs, TPs, and fozzy adventures — I know that everyone has been worried sick about when I would resume posting in my trade journal, so here goes... The past several weeks have been quite a learning experience. As witnessed in ...

Bytebodger's Pip-Burning Journal

FWIW, I figured I would upload my results for the past week. I'm trading this on a live account (I assume you're on demo, since you have the default account starting value of $5k). Although we have different takes on the fozzy method, we both ended ...

The Daily Fozzy Method