I could give examples and explanation but I think I'll pass. But I will say this, straight price movement (ticks) and acceleration in volatility are expressions of the squeeze. The key though is the setup leading into a squeeze which involves ...

Psychology and MM free zone...

It works fine for me. Thanks for the indicator, Hanover. It looks great.

Candle Identifier indicator

Congratulations on your development, gspajon and best of luck in your trading. Trading systems--automated or mechanical--are a lot of work to develop and are worth keeping for yourselves if you so choose. Who wants to give their pot of gold to the ...

What is a Forex robot?

Automated trading. Removing your brain from the equation. Yes, Expert Advisors are robots. url

What is a Forex robot?

the squeeze principle — Basically what I think moves the market is mistakes made, chasing, entering early, impatience, an overextension in one direction or another which leads to an inefficiency. It's all about squeezing people. The more the ...

Psychology and MM free zone...

Man, I don't know if I can live without fluff. Just kidding, good thread. On a serious note though technicals are where its at but it's also not wise to become so robotic in trading that you completely ignore what is underlying the markets: ...

Psychology and MM free zone...

Gaston's post is excellent. I look forward to hearing the rest of it.

Psychology and MM free zone...

From $300 to $3,000 in a day. Stupendous. What markets were you trading?

FXCM King of Micro Contest: $25,000 1st Prize!

Recommend as broker, but not for newbies — I can second that on not wanting to upgrade. For me it's mostly just a matter of keeping a stable version. I'm sure that most (if not all) of the upgrades are fine but I like to keep what is working. ...

Interactive Brokers - experiences and opinions

Strongly agree. I can understand most of the bans that have occurred in recent times at FF, but the ban of tkpower8 boggles the mind. "Banned because we are almost certain that he is setting up for a commercial venture, which is in violation of Rule ...

Tkpower8 ATM

You guys are very welcome. As a bonus, let me also add this indicator (periodcon) which may actually be better than the Period_Converter_Opt. It appears to keep working when applied to multiple graphs.

8- Hour's & Yearly Timeframe?

Hey PipHacker, Here is the answer to your question. Yes and yes (though not in the timeframe bar). As previously stated, Period_Converter is what you want--it's a great tool that converts standard time frames into custom ones. Anthonybaker some time ...

8- Hour's & Yearly Timeframe?

Wouldn't it be best to have this type of discussion in the Interactive Trading forum? There are plenty of GBP/JPY threads there.

GY Direction?

I wish spread was dead. — Small note: I agree with what you say, except for the fact that there are spreads and commissions, thus making trading a negative sum game not zero. For example, a buyer and seller enter at the exact same moment and ...

Who will pay for your money ?

Once a tax gets put in place, it becomes an "acceptable tax" and can be raised to 0.5%, 0.75% with little or no difficulty. Look at sales taxes, postal rates, etc. as examples. So yes it is a big deal.

Forex Taxes

Unfortunately clueless loudmouths seem to be getting their way a lot lately. Somebody's got to do something to stop this. This is bad, bad news. Any tax or regulation on other trading instruments will eventually find its way to forex. I'm getting a ...

Forex Taxes

Good post! I agree completely about the necessity of mental analysis in trading and am also intrigued to hear more about your strategies for achieving mental preparation as well as your technical edge. "Trading in the Zone" is a great book. I should ...

The Importance of Mental Analysis

Yes, MTF is multi time frame. I believe it is possible but I don't have the solution at this time. Not much of an answer I know, but best I can do for now.

Optimized Trend Trading

Sounds great, CB! Best of luck to you on your EA. Interesting. I have come to the same conclusion on something I've been working on. Though my strategy is different, having an adaptive time frame seems to be a key ingredient I wish I'd had a long ...

Optimized Trend Trading

I completely disagree. There is nothing wrong with looking into what you actually have to do to cover spreads and make money in this business. You can't have $ without pips.

Is 5000 pips in 1000 trades a lot?