lol..... now the nightmares begin again...... how quickly we forget..... your absolutely correct..... fifo will change that slightly.....
if your taking a alma buy, you can not have another alma buy until after a alma sell..... yes, sometimes its wise to hold a alma buy thru a alma sell.... and take the next alma buy.... and continue till some point.....
a perfect example would be the large loss i took a while back..... i was shorting some yen pair and it kept rising for days..... someone taking every 60 alma buy and holding thru the alma sells surely would have done very well.....
holding losing alma buys thru a 15 minute alma sell is maybe ok in some instances...... holding losing alma buys thru a 1440 alma sell is rarely ok......
write a script that calculates the length in time, maximum price excursion above and maximum price excursion below each signal.... export each signal to excel..... i have that coded already somewhere but odds of me finding it are almost 0......
the profit targets need to fall well within those values...... in other words, a 10 pip target is ok with a average excursion of 40 pips..... a 12 pip average maximum excursion is not.....
it seems to help me taking only signals where the atr is at least the profit target in pips.......h
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to trade and code, keep both simple... no call to impress....h