perfect hedge — Did you take the different lot sizes into account? I'm not sure about FXDD but all my GBP pairs are just 70,000 units per lot instead of 100,000. That should leave you short 30,000 units of USD/JPY. Just something to consider...

Safe Hedging System - Daily Swap

Stockwet, you're right, it's an accumulating indicator. So the reason for different values is the different start date of each chart. It shouldn't affect the relative motion though, and could be corrected with the BIAS value. Missing history data is ...

NFP System - Backtest data provided

Sentinal indicator — Here is the first version of a Sentinal index indicator. It should be a lot easier to read and modify (the code) than the currency basket indicator. I took the liberty to include the choice of measering moves in percent, ...

NFP System - Backtest data provided

Currency basket indicator — Hi, i have another indicator, that calculates the value of a currency against a weighted average of several other currencies. It could easily be modified for the Sentinal index, but maybe it's already good enough as ...

NFP System - Backtest data provided

Try this one. I wrote it some time ago, so better check if the calculations are correct. image

DeMark Pivots

Why close down an ECN? — If you mean the banks when you say Forex market, I agree with you. But since there is actually no centralized Forex market, it can't entirely be closed. If I traded EUR vs. CHF on saturday afternoon with my flat mate, ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

Done — Interesting idea. I wanted to learn a little about MTs file functions, so I made this indicator. Put the news in a txt file like this:08:30;Nonfarm Payrolls 10:00;ISM ManufacturingThe file has to be in "..\Metatrader\experts\files". It ...

News indicator request

Looks like a nice system. The idea of the stop lines is to avoid overextended moves, right? I'll make an indicator for you. Edit: Ok, here it is: image Please check if it's working correctly.

Breakout system with JL-Lines

I can trade gold and gold futures with alpari. 100 pip spread (10 ticks). One question though, does 'XAU' really mean 'gold'? From url :The XAU is an index traded on the Philadelphia exchange. It consists of 12 precious metal mining companies. ...

Do You Trade XAUUSD (Spot Gold)?

This is absolutely unrealistic with spread: Assuming a normal distribution (which isn't even the case) and a 3 pip spread you would need a 23 pip movement to win and a 17 pip movement to loose. That's not a .5 chance of winning, but .26! What you ...

Probability System Theory and Money Management

Not bad. I registered, too but thought it was over after one week and was wondering why they needed so long to announce the winners. : Let me guess your secret strategy: buy pound?

Practice Makes Perfect Trading Championship Leaderboard

USD here, can't choose with my broker. But it doesn't matter much since bank transfer is free. But if I could, I'd choose gold.

Your Account Currency Denomination

if(OrdersTotal() ==0) is the problem. It returns the number of all open and pending orders. For EAs that open only one order, I'd make ticket a global variable and exchange the above line with: if(OrderSelect(ticket,SELECT_BY_TICKET))

STRaddle Ea help

my two cents — I think it became pretty clear now that the source of the profits would be the brokers pockets, so I wouldn't call it a viable long term investment strategy let alone the holy grail. The 32% p.a. still seem pretty optimistic. ...

Arbitrage with no-interest broker

Moonchild, if you don't use a stoploss, when do you exit a loosing trade? There is a difference between not using a stoploss and letting loosers run infinetely. Almost all the mechanical eperts I have programmed worked best without any SL. Then ...

2006 Automated Trading Championship

gambling? — Some don't use any SL at all (sashken). I think the shorter the contest, the more it'll be like gambling. It's also interesting to look at the average performance, only the first 50 of >250 are profitable at all. On a related note: ...

2006 Automated Trading Championship

There's always somebody on the other side of a trade, who takes the loss if you make a profit. On mini accounts this is usually the broker. But I think they aggregate all small positions and if there is a large bias in one direction they will hedge ...

Brokers making a loss...

I think the main problem is still the same as with using two accounts on two different brokers: depending on your position size you have to shuffle around the money between the two accounts. I forgot the details, but somebody did the math and it ...

Currency Futures and Interest

I don't think this whole correlation thing is actually that difficult. Of course EURJPY, EURUSD and USDJPY are correlated, because every two of them share one same currency. If there is EUR news the first two will move. On the other hand, if there ...

EUR/JPY correlation

Extensive List — Clues from succesful traders: http://www.performance-appraisal.com/SecretsOfMasterTraders.htm Very good read, imho.

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