I can't do 9.5 and 18.5. I did the 10 19 close price test and it came out closer to the 9 18 close price. If you do that math the median price is much different than just a slower EMA. If you get a big candle the closing price average will be moved ...

Accuracy is not that important. You could have a system that is right 80% of the time and still lose money. For many systems accuracy is just a function of how tight your stop loss and profit target are. So if you were to take a basic moving average ...

I think market based stops like this are the way to go. Trailing stops have never really appealed to me. However, a market based trailing stop could be something interesting.

My exits are based on candlestick patterns. A trend will usually slow down and become indecisive before it reverses. This is where reversal patterns come in handy. One of the downsides is that when a reversal candle forms, the market could just be ...

I do not think it is useless, and I didn't test every angle obviously. However I did run more backtests with it than I can remember. If I have time I will go back over my notes, I will also run the same kind of backtest on your EA. Looking forward ...

I tested every angle on the ADX I could think of and I could not find a system that was consistently profitable. In the end I found that the ADX was not very good and finding trends, which is what it was purported to do. I am still curious though if ...

My guess is that you fit some system to a specific time frame, meaning you curve fit a system. It is pretty easy to do when back testing and does not provided very useful information. What you need to do is take that same system with the same ...