Fantastic thread! Thanks to the original poster and those who helped it along the way. Finally finished reading the whole thread and did a period of backtesting and some forward testing with some awesome results. I have been trading it live ...

So you don't allow an entry based on the opening candle of the session? Always ignore that 1st candle?

What are the 2 lines you have on the candle data?

I did reply back in msg but I cant see it so let me know if you did or did not get it.

thanks mate

I aim for 2R but if it gets to 1R and falters I close it or set SL to BE

Anyone still trading this one?

London has opened and MACD has crossed to the down side so now just waiting for a HA candle to close below the most recent low, although the most recent high becoming the SL looks very wide so caution may be the best tactic today! image

Nice trade yesterday at London Open. Vertical red is the London Open. Wait for MACD signal line to cross 0. This happened a few hours later but price was already above the latest swing high so wait for new swing high and reversal underneath. This ...

Anyone still here? I've been off working my market open strategy and now its running along nicely I am back to research and test this more thoroughly.

Yes its hard. I used to be the same. Its what I call a "Trading Butterfly". Dont be a Trading Butterfly! I am a perfectionist so I tend to stop using an idea that wins in favour of finding an idea that wins more lol Stupid. I now force myself to ...

Stick with it mate and stay solid on your rules. If you are sick of seeing your missed profits try setting your TP to twice what you would normally and changing it to a trailing stop once it hits your 1st TP. Or even close half your trade when you ...

Great work.

Nope

I've been playing around with your ideas but for UK Open and using 5m charts and getting okay results. Yesterday I got 5 wins from 9 trades and 3 of those wins were 2R for a total of +4R for around 30 mins work. But I can certainly see the ...

Yep drop it or at least get some stats on when it helps you and when it doesn't.

Would that trade have worked out if you had ignored your ATR rule? In either direction?

Ok got a win. Waited for UK Open to occur and looked at most recent swing high and swing low as the entry point and saw MACD was about to cross 0 to the downside so placed the trade. Targetted 1R instead of 2 and it worked. image

Beautiful!