well, that's true if you develop a system and only then check it's KPI's, or reuse existing systems you find out there. I personally develope my systems by myself, and take my RRR preference into account when building the system, not after that

I'm using a similar method. I'm always setting SL first of course, most of the time below/above the last swing low/high (but not less than X pips, depends on the TF and volatility). TP is 1:1. and I'm setting a fixed amount of $ to set my position ...

well, that's exactly what I didn't want this thread to be - yet another trading techniques thread anyway, nothing too excited I'm afraid. mainly price action patterns. like breaking S/R level, retesting, and continue the breakout. or ...

Oh god… I’m on GMT-2 so I’ve just woke up and got all your great feedback. First, I really happy about this discussion – this is exactly the direction I wanted this thread to go. Discussing the mental implications and not tech analysis / math ...

Just realized that... this EA indeed modify orders so it's a problem Thanks guys anyway, and great hack Honestknave!

Trade Explorer — Hi Nexas, ForexFactory have a great tool named Trade Explorer. You can see all trades in real time + charts. People can share their TradeExplorer and others can track & learn a lot from it. For example, my trade explorer: ...

Thanks! I actually took NB main concepts from 5.0 & 10.0, and made my own adaptations. I enter a counter-trend trade after I identify a weakness of a well-defined trend (I occasionally use the NB meter signal and/or FX5 MACD divergence). I set TP ...

Going live! — After 4 months of trading demo, I feel comfortable to go live. Isn't 1/1/2012 the most appropriate timing? you can see the results so far on the beginning of the following thread using ForexFactory "Trade Explorer": ...

Going Live! — After 4 months of trading demo, I feel comfortable to go live. Isn't 1/1/2012 the most appropriate timing? you can see the results so far on the beginning of this thread using ForexFactory "Trade Explorer". I'll make the live ...

So far so good — Just wanted to let you know, that I'm continue using NB concepts from his original system (4H), with a few adaptations to my trading style & beloved indicators, with gr8 success so far (3 months of trading on 4H charts - only ...

I love Forex Factory! — If you'll scroll to the beginning of the thread, you can see my Trade Explorer for the account I trade this method on. It's better than any status summary I could have post. Thx FF for gr8 product, and NB for gr8 job & ...

Sell: EURNZD @1.75769, TP @1.74610 Buy: CADJPY @75.279, TP @76.367 Floating: EURGBP. Entry @0.85739, TP @0.86350 (-36 pips)

Status — Wasn't here for a while, so here is an update. As it takes me a lot of time to prepare this report, I'll do it from now on only once a month or two. On the other hand, I'll update about trades in real time. Floating trades: EURGBP. ...

weekly report - 11.9 - 17.9 — Very weak week... Mainly trying to recover on the GBP pairs, and these positions are still floating. Attached detailed report (closed & floating trades) for the previous week. Weekly pips: +127 Floating pips: -626 ...

Yes, I know, that was a classical black swan... I personally decided not to touch any CHF pair for now. As the SNB pronounced the bottom against the euro, any counter trading is very dangerous and with limited potential.