Yes happens from time to time, for unknown reasons. Switching timeframe or market usually helps.

Hi Jason, any thoughts at FXCM to change Stock Trading commission model in regard to the 9 minimum com.? I see more and more brokers being more flexible in this regard, w/o any min. com. but still able to trade small sizes of stock cfds. Thanks!

Important to make the strategy fit to your perspective of the market, good job! But no stops?? Buying when bearish, selling when bullish?? Hm ..

Is challenging ones and arguing for one's own opinion trolling now? I am trading on daily and weekly timeframe in order to catch the biggest portion of a significant movement.

It's not exactly new. Turtle Traders have been endorsing it since the 1980's. Livermore has been since the 1920's. Buying low and selling high is the exact opposite of trendfollowing (as defined by Livermore and the Turtles). However, there are ...

Thought it would be even shorter. Good luck!

What's your Timeframe on that? I guess much shorter than mine, then this could make some sense. With USD/JPY important support broken today (116) possibility of longer-term downwards price action. Let's see..

What?

Right now I have tons, a lot of them have been triggered already since end of last week and today was pretty rapid. USD/JPY for example hit at just below 116 (115.94). Hoping for a nice correction ending in 100-105. But I really have no friggin' ...

Apparently, you are completely unable to answer a question.

Are you even reading what I am posting? - I never said anything about 'hindsight', - my post you just quoted was your chance to answer the question I proposed! I haven't been watching at all since around 2009 Just got back online a couple of ...

I did give you hints if you didn't notice. Decade-long performance proof for example. You are welcome to do more research on this. I asked you one question (provide decade-long performance proof for what your argument was for) and you are ...

Ken A: 18,806 Posts - and you haven't seen a strategy that is trendfollowing? And all the proof around the net supporting this approach? Just look at the Trading Systems Forum or my profile and you will find ways to see trades that follow exactly ...

I am talking about DECADE-LONG performance and you are giving me the FEBRUARY 2016 leaderboard. Great.

The name of the strategy does not give you an idea about what they are doing. Looking at the top 3 strategies you are talking about, they haven't even been incepted before 2010, that's ridiculous and doesn't give any clue about their performance. By ...

Are you guys still watching this market? The breakout at $1114 was mentioned and Gold is now trading at almost $1200. Last week was volatile regarding bull action, Monday of this week continued to follow the same path. Let's see where we're headed. ...

It's not his template. It's been developed by Profitunity. You can easily apply the indicators using the what seems the most popular charting platform: Metatrader 4. They are buildt-in: Alligator, Fractals, Aweseome Oscillator.

url Decades of live performance updated monthly, almost none of these top performing CTA's in the future's and forex space are doing anything else than selling low and buying high - trendfollowing. Google the term if you need to know more.

It works forever if you're smart enough to factor in money management techniques. How do you think the big players (i.e. Hedge Funds) are making the money?