Test — Hi Graeme, Good material. Your posts have had a profound impact on how I am thinking about my trading. I decided to do a simple test (using a back tester) with your ideas. 1. I opened a pair (I chose GBPJPY). 2. I randomly pick a year ...

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Trading break of 7am bar — Hi Gary, Your 7am bar sounds good. If it's working, stick with it. You asked for advise, but on the results you have posted it appears you do not need any. However, you pose an interesting question that has troubled ...

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can u share more? — Bullrock, Good post. Can share more on what you discovered? I understand not to use BE, but if not taking profit, what trail do you suggest? Is there any more detail you can share? Dazz

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VERY HAPPY!!! — Zuke, I am aware of three successful trailing stops. Two of them are based on price action and so it is easy to calculate the stop point manually with very little effort. The third one is based on the ATR and it not easy to ...

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IndI — Zuke, Thanks for the indi. Daz.

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MTF Stop and Reverse — Zuke, Any chance of getting a copy of that indicator? Daz.

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trailing stop — Zuke, What is the dotted line trailing stop on your 5m chart? Daz

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correlation filter? — Is there a measure of correlation in MT that can be used to ignore trades. Eg. No trade if correlation is less than X%? Darren.

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Grant, You trade 3 systems. If you are long in system 1 and get a short signal in system 2 (same pair), do you reverse, ignore the short, or just run both side by side? Or, do you recommend running different systems with different pairs? Darren.

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Thank for confirming the buffer Scull. Grant, agreed and good advice. Thanks. Scull, at what point will you remove an entry order not triggerd with your setup? Good till what time? Darren.

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Weekly Swing Low/High and the box — I suggest paying attention to the weekly swing lows and highs when drawing your boxes and how the price may use those levels in your trade after your break-out entry, as they are important intraday levels. ...

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The "Scull Box" — The Scull Box

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buffer — Scull, u still using 7 pips + spread long, 7 without spread for a SELL? Regards, Darren.

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Stick with a winning system — Agreed. Some one made a post in this thread (I think it was here) that people will abandon a good system when it goes through a draw down. Often after the draw down comes excellent results (just after people stop ...

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back testing — Folks, I have three people that are going to do some back testing on my London breakout, that's enough (except if grant and scull would like a look due to their significant contributions to this thread). If it's looking good, it ...

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Off topic post — Folks, This is an off topic post (I mention this so not to derail this thread - no replies needs.) If you are interested and scalping the E/U, consider the following. url . (in the last 200 days, one stop loss). If someone ...

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More back testing? — Hi Indy, Once again, thanks for the back testing you did for me. Today, I applied the same analysis as a filter to my own London breakout system. I tried it two different ways and I was surprised the find that it did not ...

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That's a great way to measure performance — Indy, Thanks for backtesting. It was worth a look. Just using the 4hr trend worked OK (maginally better for Jan than yours, but not by much and it had to take more takes (more effort) to do this. ...

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Indy, Maybe I misunderstood your return values... U r using? Stop 20 pips Target 77 pips If so, that makes before spread: Indy (-80, +77 = total of -3) 4hr (-140, +154 = total of +14) And after spread of 2 pips per trade: Indy -3, -10 = -13 4hr +14, ...

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Thank you — Hi Indy, Your system is good, stick with that. I was worth a try. Thank you for taking the time to back test this. I appreciate your effort. I have not been trading my own london breakout this year (based on a simliar concept). I ...

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