RULES 1. Draw box (horizontal line on high and low) between 8:30 EST on NFP Friday and 00:00 EST the following Monday. 2. Plot a 336 Simple Moving Average on your 30 minute chart 3. If a CLOSE occurs above or below the box on the 30 minute chart, take the trade ONLY if the 336 SMA backs it up (price is above the 336 SMA for a long trade, below the 336 SMA for a short trade), and if the Sentinal Index is above the 7 day SMA. If the two indicators don't reflect the price action yet, take the trade when they both do. 4. Leverage 5% of your account per trade, twice. Open 2 positions 5% each (or 10% total...These percentages can be changed of course, I just did 5% as an example. You can just as easily do 1% per entry.) and wait for the price to move 50 pips. Once the price moves 50 pips, close one of the positions (to take 50 pip profit), and move the other to break even. This way, if your price reverses, you'll break even on the second position but still have already bagged 50 pips from the first one. Balance * .05 / 100(stopLoss) = $/Lot * 2 Lot trade = 10% Risk 5. Exit strategy is based on a close on the other side of the 336 EMA. 6. Re-entries can be taken only if the price has closed above or below the current and previous week's high/low respectively, and the indicators (Sentinal number and 336 SMA) support it. ----------- This system's goal is to play on the trend of the market, fishing out the biggest movers and riding them until they run out of steam while at the same time giving you 50 pips for the false breakouts. The failure rate is 19.6% over the last 4 years. ----------- Downsides: 1. You are in twice the positions when you lose (two positions down 100 pips). Since the failure rate is so low (and the percentage negotiable), this system provides a steady stream of income that exponentially grows, so it balances itself out. I've included an example of a 5,000 dollar starting equity, leveraging 5% per lot liberally to show the flexability. 2. The majority of the moves occur between midnight and 9am, so to keep a normal sleep schedule, one would have to set an alarm to notify when a trade has presented itself. 3. The sentinal indicator isn't all that easy to come by. You'd need to know how to make it, and how to use it as opposed to doing a few clicks on a chart to come up with a standard indicator. I have started a signal service that deals strictly with indications based on the Sentinal Index, where you can get daily updated Sentinal numbers and charts as well as trading alerts delivered to whichever media you prefer (cell phone, messenger, email, etc). --------------- Upsides: 1. Steady "no worries" growth. The system, though simple, provides a good growth rate with little to no risk of losing any part of your account permenantly. 2. Can easily be used in a scripting language or programmed to be an automated system. Of course people want the human aspect involved, but even traded mechanically, it produced on average aprox 215 pips per month. 3. Can easily be combined with support/resistance or any other system. This just provides a solid indication of which direction the market is moving. 4. Very few trades per month. I never exceeded 4-5 trades in a month, where my biggest winners came within 1-2 trades. ----snip------