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TOP 100 best edges on forex charts: post good edges here 116 replies
Statistical mean of the market [quant corner] 191 replies
Statistical Validation on trading 24 replies
DislikedBefore to add any indicator I'd suggest you to apply a time filter to find best hours to trade. I suspect London opening hours will give the best performance.Ignored
DislikedThere is no repeatable edge in the markets. The most important thing is to make your losses smaller than your gains. Some situation if you do better research than the market you can have an edge over that situation like finding that the euro is 15% overvalued, etc. But they don't repeat, you need to do another research tomorrow. You can mine the data all you like, you won't find anything. I once found a pattern that predicted what the market will do (60% of the time). But with time , it disappeared. As the market changes and morphs , old patterns...Ignored
DislikedEURUSD, H1, EMA 200 01.01.2019 - 11.06.2020 Rules: Original EXPLORER plus BUY only IF ASK is higher than EMA200 and SELL only IF BID is lower than EMA200 {image} {image} Result: 50% less trades, but same losses. Drawdown is higher with EMA200 rule than without. Conclusion: EMA200 is not respected by price. If it would respect EMA200, in the long run (over 1000 Trades a small edge would be visible).Ignored
DislikedBefore to add any indicator I'd suggest you to apply a time filter to find best hours to trade. I suspect London opening hours will give the best performance.Ignored
DislikedHello kleybenny, maybe our minds work in a similar way (tending to use only half of our brain) ... Some time ago, reflecting on what you say in the introduction, doubts have struck me ... Perhaps in the "field" of "logic" the battle is lost for the human being, because there are machines, that have "more advantage", and if have all the money in the world would buy the best machine and the best programmer (but not is the case of the retail trader) ... Also, there are tons of people with way more intellect than me ... However, our nature drives us...Ignored
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DislikedOne thing came into my mind when thinking about Moving Averages. Maybe its not the position of the moving average in relation to the price. Maybe its the steepness or angle of Moving Averages which gives us an edge. I will test this later on....Ignored