- Search Metals Mine
- ianf0ster replied Sep 23, 2009
Scrutch - slope, its just the scale changing — Hi Scrutch, Since I do not see anybody else answering this.... The slope of any line on your chart depends upon the vertical scale and the horizontal scale used. MT4 (by default) is set to auto ...
ICCE. Bemac's Fib. Reverse Engineered
- ianf0ster replied Sep 18, 2009
test, test, test - Chicken and Egg — My 2c, Any pre-profitable trader is likely to suffer from two very different , but inter-connected problems: 1. Do they have a succesful strategy/method/system for them? - because until they do, they will ...
Help for Newbies (Discussion Thread)
- ianf0ster replied Sep 14, 2009
Ignore them — Hi, I am finding it difficult to understand your problem. This method is not based upon any price range box. You ignore any peaks/troughs on Sunday for the week starting on Monday because they are apart of this weeks figures not ...
First-Strike & One-Night-Stand users, show yourself and your mods, if you dare!!!
- ianf0ster replied Sep 13, 2009
No Sasha - read Joel's documents — No Sasha , - Read Joel's documents, You take the high of the previous week subtract the low of previous week to get the range. Then take the price at 01:00 EST add 0.3 x the prevous week range to get the Buy ...
First-Strike & One-Night-Stand users, show yourself and your mods, if you dare!!!
- ianf0ster replied Sep 11, 2009
I think you need to test a few more months — Hi, Your backtesting looks great except for that one month. Your filtering also works well apart from ruining that one big winning month. I am barely past the novice stage in tweaking systems to get ...
TraderT - My Trading Journey
- ianf0ster replied Sep 7, 2009
Nice to see that you can aslo post about trading — Its nice to see that you can also post about trading. (I got very bored with your other posts.) Please keep it up, Ian
MTF Trix system
- ianf0ster replied Sep 7, 2009
That's where I have an advantage... — Hi Steve, Yes, it just kept going north didn't it? That's where I have an advantage, I can wait until it shows signs of reversing, or just not get in at all. Today I waited until it reversed down to ...
Steviet's Live Trades!
- ianf0ster replied Sep 6, 2009
Trend lines and Renko - just an opinion — Hi Trend lines and Renko - just an opinion: I think that trend lines are valid with Renko (without the wicks) in fact Renko makes it easier to draw valid trend lines. However you need to keep the ...
NITRO Scalping for serious traders
- ianf0ster replied Sep 6, 2009
Great post in by 4xstar in another thread — There is a great post by 4xstar in another thread. It is so long since I learned this poem in school, that I had forgotten most of it. Yet it is so applicable to trading as well as to many other ...
How I found what works for me
- ianf0ster replied Sep 6, 2009
Are you being realistic? — Another post I made in that thread: Unrealistically high expectations? Quote: Originally Posted by TraderT image Mechanical Trade Ideas 1. Spent some time on the weekend to manually backtest steviet's method to the ...
How I found what works for me
- ianf0ster replied Sep 6, 2009
Unrealistically high expectations? — Hi, I am just wondering if you are suffering from unrealistically high expectations. Have you really thought about what is a really good average or consistent return? How high a yearly % do the professional ...
TraderT - My Trading Journey
- ianf0ster replied Sep 6, 2009
Answer to a question about how I trade Steviet's E/U — Here is my answer to a question about how I trade Steviet's E/U London Open Reversal system. I have just copied it from the thread where I responded: Answer to a question about how I trade ...
How I found what works for me
- ianf0ster replied Sep 5, 2009
Watch Out for 'normal markets' — Hi Tiki, I see you are still doing the TT5 without stops. Good luck to you, I think you will need it when 'normal markets' resume and the trends go for longer than 8 hrs. If we get back to 3 to 5 day ...
Tiki Trader Trades
- ianf0ster replied Sep 4, 2009
My take on moving stops for Steviet's euro trade — steviet's euro method Hi Ian Thanks for leaving a comment on my journal. I'm trying to trade steviet's euro method, but i would like to protect some profits. Mind i ask how you protect your ...
TraderT - My Trading Journey
- ianf0ster replied Sep 4, 2009
Thank you asdf — Thank you asdf, That is really comprehensive analysis. I am so pleased to see that paradoxical has not driven you away. You do not appear to be Keith Brown so far as I can see, but I will wait for Twee's verdict on that score. ...
NITRO Scalping for serious traders
- ianf0ster replied Sep 4, 2009
Good thing you were at home — Hi Steve, Its a good thing that you were at home. I was wondering if you would be stopped out for a loss of the short as well as the long. I also got stopped for a profit of 2.4% (61 pips). I am currently kicking ...
Steviet's Live Trades!
- ianf0ster replied Sep 3, 2009
My 'Other please specify' is Joel Rensink's free systems — My 'Other please specify' is Joel Rensink's free systems, FS and ONS and are refernced in this thread in the commercial section. url In fact these are the systems I have live traded ...
[vote/scoring] comm section systems, which are useful?
- ianf0ster replied Sep 3, 2009
No general convention — Hi, Unfortunately there is no general convention on counting pips. There are 3 ways that people may do it (plus some variations): 1. Entry price to exit price (each separate exit price if scaling out). 2. Sum of all ...
MTF Trix system
- ianf0ster replied Sep 3, 2009
Different ways of slicing the figures — Hi Cobra, I think there are diffenet ways of compiling the figures. The way wikipedia does it - which is by location , or the way the other guy quoted it, which is by company. It is misleading to use the ...
Trading for a Living - Cliff Notes
- ianf0ster replied Sep 3, 2009
Royston - my thoughts FIW — Hi Royston, My thoughts. I agree that there is nothing wrong in closing before it hits your stop, if you have good evidence that invalidates your original decision to enter. However, I think ( I did not see/enter ...
MTF Trix system