The tester processes day candles differently than 1 minute candles. Even with "every tick" setting. When I ran the same setting through the 1 minute candles it didn't make it through. Crashed. Am just looking at lots of different ways to try to ...

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Instead of the 1m. Set up on the day.. with 100 pip step, trade hour 1 hour after market open, Never went beyond level 3 Martingale, biggest draw down 195 pips. 100% gain for 12 months. Because of how data is processed in the tester will run these ...

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Testing the non-Asian pairs. Amazingly EURGBP went through 2016 with only $200 balance to begin. Couple big drawdowns but got through it, even Brexit, at that trading hour without calamity. That's not even with trend tracking.

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Thanks, yes, spot on. I'm seeing that now. I was attracted to how much it moved at that time, so much more than EU. But it is too much risk for what I am trying to do. Also BOJ is known for big surprises unannounced. If you're interested Martin ...

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Looking at using the 14 HMA on the day chart for selecting which days to set up and in which direction for several different pairs for the 1 hour right after market open. As a way to limit the risk. So there would be trades everyday but just not on ...

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In back testing UJ there was an instance where 4 levels was not enough. Took it up to 6 with 10% risk. Let's see if that will get it by rough spots. No it still crashes. But oddly enough when there 6 levels 1% risk it slides through. Not sure what ...

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Something else to consider is the swap. Usually it is not very much. But for some pairs it can be significant especially if the position gets held for a week or more. Like AUDCHF. I entered short on the signal not considering the swap for short is ...

Trade management... The secret to success

The basket is up and running for 2 days. The first trade to close is USD CAD. 1 ATR profit... no recovery trade needed. Some of the trades were opened too early. My mistake. Candle close on trend confirmation is necessary. Total drawdown for the ...

Trade management... The secret to success

I'm adapting the strategy to try to deal with this. I think my idea is unique and is working very nicely in manual trading using the day candles. This is a thread following the progress. url

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You're good. Great questions. Those are the only two questions I have not actually resolved. In several years of back testing in the tester with data from url It has always resolved by letting it have some drawdown and time without a crisis. Not ...

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These are the perfect entries for 1 ATR profit on the Day chart.. Once the trend is confirmed by the candle "closing" on the color change Oops . Still trying to get the hang of this. That buy trade was still too early. It should have been opened on ...

Trade management... The secret to success

This is the day chart using the strategy set up on several pairs. The pairs that are going against were entered too early. The color change has be confirmed in order for the trend to be actually established. Since I am only looking for 1 ATR of ...

Trade management... The secret to success

Have been trading with this semi automatic expert very successfully for a while now. Have modified the strategy but it requires constant surveillance. Sitting glued to the monitor is not my thing. If you care to tackle this I can describe my ...

EA Coding Help

Found this great tool. experts folder... testing the speed of ping.. video

Trade management... The secret to success

This strategy is really nice. It is working so nicely in back testing. Up and running on a demo now too. This was 8 1/2 months 2016.. I'm thinking although there could be significant drawdown at some point, it would not be catastrophic like in an ...

Trade management... The secret to success

This is dream come true. So useful. A script that reveals the gmt offset for the broker. Wow...

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I was waiting for the first candle after the color change on 14 T3 but that isn't necessary. any candle in the direction of T3 works just fine. As soon as tp 100 is hit enter again on the opening of the new candle.

Trade management... The secret to success

Trying to hedge got real messy. Maybe would need 2 accounts. But i was hoping to protect drawdown in one account but at least inthe simulator it's a mess. A lot of has to do with the technicalities. Not being able to click on a stop to move it ...

Trade management... The secret to success

kudos. great simulator... free . sleek and easy does everything I wanted to do... So what... so you register. Big deal.

New Trading Simulator, Gain Experience Faster

Two days now 24/7 in tester and only up to 4 months on the 15 minute. What could make it run so slowly? the way it's coded? Or is it just processing tons of data for each tick? It will take over a week at this rate to do 12 months. I could be mining ...

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