Dear abhirag, Thanks for sharing your outcomes. The pictures are unclear, and can not be read. The modeling for your daily candle pattern entry should be ok, but the trailing will be inaccurate in the profit model. Would you share on your ...

Slow and Steady Expert Advisor

Dear sideburn, Not sure about great authors, but I assume you meant the annual returns in %? It is not fair to consider the returns out of context. The Larry Williams return you listed matches a competition, was it fake money, I don't know or care ...

High Annual Return Trader And Yet A Great Author

Dear Beerbelly, Nice work on putting together an EA to share with FF. Just carefully consider all the math of doubling. Question to ask yourself: How many losses in a row are possible with this EA that has a success probability of ~42% after taking ...

Martingale easy rules

Dear AlastorFate and Hayseed, Even though proof of profitability is not needed to teach, I do agree with hayseed mentioning that people will take them more seriously. No, you don't need to be consistently profitable to teach trading and many do end ...

Do you need to be profitable to be qualified to teach trading?

Dear Ftj, Something to think about is not to get too focused on winning streaks or loss days and instead take a look at what your trading outcomes have been from the time you started trading your pivot points strategy. Do pm me if unsure how to go ...

Trading daily pivot points, learning

Dear arjfca and havo, I also make sure to take screenshots of trade taken and the end point. I find this very useful and to save time, I do not record details if I have followed the rules and there was nothing extra unique things to record. I may ...

Organisation: How do you plan, record, or register your trades

[quote=genghistar;11730345] Dear GS, Is this where traders can go wrong? Where the trader is unable to develop the proper robust enough methodology in order to be consistent enough in their success and profitability before giving up trading? Must ...

Studying on Supply/Demand

Dear penyuperwira, Thank you for sharing these nice scripts and EA to speed up execution and auto calculation for a tp target at desired %. Kind Regards, Tzamo

Useful Script for Open Order with Percentage Profit and Lots

Dear Aussi, Thank you, waiting for re-entry on EUR/AUD and AUD/JPY (pos swap pairs). I will watch for the price action delay to fill the gap if I get a chance to re-enter a bit further away. Kind Regards, Tzamo

Exotics (USD/TRY, USD/ZAR, USD/MXN, and others)

Dear Cat and other posters, I don't know how to thank you for starting this thread as well as others who have contributed. Cat, I greatly related to your learning approach of making mistakes and learning from them. However, the loneliness of trading ...

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Trader

Dear Cat, In my view, I think there is the multi-TF traders that do the analysis and narrow down and others that run each TF that is of interest to them due to indicator limitations I would imagine. In my trading I use higher TF EMA's and take note ...

The Trader's Academy - by Traders for Traders

Dear Cny, Xièxiè, Thank you for sharing your wisdom. i do also agree that the mind/ mindset of a trader (psychology) is very important. Teaching many people the very best entry technique in the world (if there was one) will show that each of them ...

Trading: A Mind Game

Dear 2dollardog, If you see the winners, why not make a list of what things are common and not common between them? Take detailed notes and pictures, and you should soon figure it out Best of luck, Kind Regards, Tzamo

Exotics (USD/TRY, USD/ZAR, USD/MXN, and others)

Dear Dasilvja, Not exactly so, there are other things to consider like leverage. Therefore a trader does not have to keep all the funds in the one account, just need to make sure you have liquid funds ready to cover if something goes wrong. One ...

Minimum Balance to Trade Full time?

Dear tanbca, I am sure that others and myself will be struggling to know what the point of this thread is. What is your intention? Do you seek feedback? Why do you provide 1 day test? A random seemingly live test picture does not really mean ...

TSR EA 2018 Smart martingale with hedging and news filter

Dear newbietofx, If you think about it, this picture shows nothing useful and it adds nothing to you as a person apart from doubt for your trading. I can find many things wrong with those statistics (time period, reliability, how many included, ...

Trading is easy. Only for these investors

Dear chineser, What I think you are trying to do is calculate the outcome of following a strategy that generates a signal without a strategy. So, to determine if the generated signal is 'good' or 'bad' you need to define all of the parameters. ...

how to define a good or bad signal?

Dear deanoracer, Thank you for sharing your knowledge and strategy. The quoted post above is pretty much the reason this strategy can not be traded via mechanical EA alone, because each trade if compared with a traders own experience and knowledge ...

10 pips a trade

Dear Aussi and vianiah, In my view, success rate is only part the picture. You need to also add in the average win and loss to that. As a human trader you can call upon your experience, but an EA can not do that. So, it is vital one knows the % ...

Exotics (USD/TRY, USD/ZAR, USD/MXN, and others)

Dear Aussi, I think the pesky GBP may weaken prior to filling gap Not sure how much, but for GJ I will look to enter around 146.555... Some TRY and ZAR pairs had a small gap too, also remain unfilled I think with those paired against USD pushing ...

Exotics (USD/TRY, USD/ZAR, USD/MXN, and others)