Just because you do not have a clue on how to backtest properly does not mean that backtest results can not be trusted. Neither of the 2 screenshots have any value since the curves have not been genereated with tick data. Judging from the sharp drop ...

Another Reason Not to Trust Backtesting

Do you honestly think that editing your picture will add to your credibility? Since i was sure that this was gonna gonna be your next step i took a screenshot of your original picture. If you seek the respect of your fellow traders dont forget that ...

is it realistic to set a win rate as target?

It would be rather hard to retire with demo dollars dont you think? Also it is very easy to go all in and trade recklessly when there are no real money being risked. Dont waste your time and open a small micro account or trade a demo account with a ...

is it realistic to set a win rate as target?

If you want a system with a high win rate i have one for you. It uses no indicators and the entries are random. The take profit is 1 pip and the stop loss is 1000 pips. The win rate should be as high as 99%. Now if you want to also make money then ...

is it realistic to set a win rate as target?

i dont know about the best indicator bu here is my chart with a few of my absolute favorites. I use them on all TF and change the parameters weekly based on what worked best last week

Which Indicator You use to got PIPS...

Thats metoquotes trying to see if anyone is paying attention

What is an Expert Advisor?

The indicator you are looking for is actually widely known. The name it goes by is, the Holy Grail. Even though there are a lot of people looking for it no reports of a succesfull find as of yet. If you do stumble upon it please make sure you let us ...

How to make use float indicator

Actually forex is a negative sum game because of the spread...

Where does the money come from?

The open of a new candle in mt4 is where the first tick comes in, after the previous candle "expired". so it will only very rarely line up and only happens when a tick comes in and there is no price change (yes that does happen). There may be a way ...

MT4 Candles

Bad coding Optimizing a stratregy that modifyies orders a lot using too small of a step on the inputs you optimize the optimization on mt4 (genetic or not) generaly being slow on tick date the above are just a few that come to mind. hard to say ...

MT4 Backtesting Very Slow

loop through all your orders; use OrderSelect() with OrderProfit() to determine the profit; have a variable that holds the profit you are looking for; if (OrderProfit()==YourProfit) { ok_to_trade=false; } declare ok_to_trade outside start() or ...

Prevent trades once a certain profit level is reached

Like i said in this thread before the system that the EA is based on is a far cry from the classic martingale or any variations i have come across on this and other forums. I have done a lot of research and testing prior to going live with the EA ...

The journey to full time trading!

No i took my GF with me this time

The journey to full time trading!

Just checked on the EA using the investor password on my laptop. Last week was good although the fundamental data released for CHF last week has sent EUR/CHF up 360 pips in 15 m which is a lot for a pair with a relatively small ATR. The EA has a few ...

The journey to full time trading!

Just compare what they pay you to what they charge people that borrow from them for starters

Annual percentage yield (APY)

yes, you should be able to use iCustom() in a new ind and then have alerts on the values returned by it.

could be alert added to ex4 indicator?

Going away! — I will be leaving tomorrow to go on a vacation to St. John US Virgin Islands and will return on the 18th. I will not be able to update the journal this week and will update it the following week for both weeks. I will leave the ...

The journey to full time trading!

Artificial - yes Intelligence - no

What programming language do I need to learn to develop my own EA?

The increased volatility in the U/J pair over the last 2 weeks has found the EA on the wrong side of the uptrend. That along with the averaging down nature of the EA has caused a DD of about 10% which so far is in line with the worse posible DD seen ...

The journey to full time trading!

Equity Curve

The journey to full time trading!