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- grant18265 replied Feb 16, 2010
Daz, If 1 says long and 1 short in the same pair, then i'm long and short in that pair. my RR is good enough that i will normally come out + pips, very occasionally both SL get hit but thats only very occasionally. if the systems both say long then ...
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- grant18265 replied Feb 16, 2010
Scull
good detective work thanks mate. Grant0400-0700 GMT Breakout Strategy
- grant18265 replied Feb 16, 2010
Archie, apologies, have just read trhis post after submitting my earlier reply.. all the inputs for the Grant breakout strat were optimized by an EA and then double checked by me visually for accuracy. i tested buffers from 0 to 10 on both sides and ...
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- grant18265 replied Feb 16, 2010
Darren, I couldnt agree more. to go a touch further as well (climbs on soap box):- i trade 3 systems for myself and clients. i always risk the same % for each and every trade regardless of the system the trade comes from. So for example this morning ...
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- grant18265 replied Feb 16, 2010
Archie, when optimising the SL TP etc i had the Ea test numerous Time frames starting at midnight GMT through to the London open... i never kept any of the results as there were far too many but i know that 0400 - 0600 UK time have the best return ...
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- grant18265 replied Feb 11, 2010
Hi i dont mind at all. intraday/medium term i trade regular no frills macd divergence on the 15 min, 1hr and 4 hr charts, scalping wise i have 2 commercial systems that i have taken certain pieces of and made a scalper strat that trades off the 5 ...
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- grant18265 replied Feb 9, 2010
Hi lenoxer, Firstly its no bother at all... i didnt keep a record of all the varying max DD's but i know that using SL 15, TP 75 and BE @ 25 the DD was 9%, this was trading whilst the ema was in the box since having the no trade in box rule the max ...
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- grant18265 replied Feb 8, 2010
Hi Seba no i dont, i trade the grant and scull method from this thread as well as 2 other strategies, 1 scalping, 1 intraday... cheers Grant
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- grant18265 replied Feb 8, 2010
Hi, attached is the latest version (i think) of the EA i used for the backtesting last year. i dont have the actual EA version i used for the testing as i deleted it... this one is coded by RBI and is from the 7-9 am big dog thread so any questions ...
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- grant18265 replied Feb 8, 2010
the 0815 candle, so if i'm not in at 0830 i cancel... cheers Grant
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- grant18265 replied Feb 8, 2010
forgot to say that the bars to count input should read 8... cheers grant
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- grant18265 replied Feb 8, 2010
rob, thats how i do it, here is the rules from the word doc that is in the first post, have attached the whole doc again as well: - Rules... ·GBPUSD 15 min chart ·use indy set to 4 – 6 amUK time all year (example settings for ODL below) ·add an 85 ...
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- grant18265 replied Feb 8, 2010
Rob, i have Be as well on Alpari UK entry @ 1.5577 then headed straight down to the low of the day, 1.5532. so plenty of room for the BE move... cheers Grant
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- grant18265 replied Feb 8, 2010
Gyfu, the EA can be found if you click on the paper clip in the top right corner of this page with all the attachments. i backtested various SL's from 10 up to 50 and 15 gave the best risk reward returns. i know its tight but with 15 the RR is 5:1, ...
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- grant18265 replied Feb 8, 2010
1. attached are results from last year and this year thus far. results highlighted in yellow are from my live account. jan - august are an EA backtest manually confirmed. i finished trading earlier than most in Dec hence the bad result.... 2. it ...
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- grant18265 replied Feb 5, 2010
WW i will trade every day if the set up lines up correctly.. Grant
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- grant18265 replied Feb 4, 2010
Rob Alpari Uk hit the SL regardless of spread, price got to 1.59035 - 1.59065, so hit it comfortably (by 3.5 pips)... has happened before will happen again... as i have always maintained these are the settings i use and form the basis of a good ...
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- grant18265 replied Feb 4, 2010
Rob, we will see how that shapes up in the coming days... as for today imho, we survived the entry as it went to +20 pips, the markets just wanted to retest the round number 1 more time, sometimes they do sometimes they dont... just trade it ...
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