Greetings.
I've been reading about MA crossover systems for years. They get killed in choppy markets. The problem is that they are stop and reverse systems.
So, I was just churning a few ideas in my mind, and I came up with this.
Pick your MA crossover that has done well. I don't really have numbers for this yet.
Now, when there is a cross up or down, do not enter. Wait for the price to move X pips up or down as a confirmation. This might be a SR line or something similar to Nicotina's 8 hour box. This keeps you from getting sucked into the choppy mess that MA systems are prone to.
Anyway, let's say you enter the trade, and it goes against you. The stop is the price where the MA cross occured. If the price moves back up (or down) to the original entry, reenter (the Jacko aspect) unless a new cross occurs.
Let's say a new cross occurs before your SR confirmation described above. The old signal is now void, and the new cross is the valid signal, so now you have to wait for the price to move in the opposite direction X pips for that entry.
Could something like this work? Possibly. I might write an EA for it, and run some backtests on various pairs.
Cheers.
I've been reading about MA crossover systems for years. They get killed in choppy markets. The problem is that they are stop and reverse systems.
So, I was just churning a few ideas in my mind, and I came up with this.
Pick your MA crossover that has done well. I don't really have numbers for this yet.
Now, when there is a cross up or down, do not enter. Wait for the price to move X pips up or down as a confirmation. This might be a SR line or something similar to Nicotina's 8 hour box. This keeps you from getting sucked into the choppy mess that MA systems are prone to.
Anyway, let's say you enter the trade, and it goes against you. The stop is the price where the MA cross occured. If the price moves back up (or down) to the original entry, reenter (the Jacko aspect) unless a new cross occurs.
Let's say a new cross occurs before your SR confirmation described above. The old signal is now void, and the new cross is the valid signal, so now you have to wait for the price to move in the opposite direction X pips for that entry.
Could something like this work? Possibly. I might write an EA for it, and run some backtests on various pairs.
Cheers.