You're right, I didn't read your post properly!

Some problems in your math: 1. In your example, you assume the loss will come at the end of the 9,500 trade string. On average, it will come in the middle though! 2. To be able to withstand 9 losses with double-up-and-reverse-style martingale, the ...

I currently use NZD/JPY for carry trading. Didn't enter with the whole desired size yet. Instead I scale in each 200 pips (grid trading / carry trading combined). So far I bought at 86 and 84.

Finally it works for me on both of my computers - thank you! I'm looking forward to trying this strategy after next month's NFP!

Problems with sentinel indicator — Hello, like several other members, I have problems with applying the sentinel index SMA modA indicator to my GBP/USD chart for this system. While it works fine so far on one of my computers with MT4 (MIG ...

Which indicator to use? — Hello Scott, which of the three indicators from post 1 is the correct one for this strategy? Thanks in advance!

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Here's my Broker's spread on GBPCHF. You can decrease the spread with your own order down to 1 pip though, simply by placing a limit order inside the spread.

The answer is no. You'd still have to pay commissions and / or slippage. Problem is that most traders have trouble doing what their system tells them in the first way, so they wouldn't be able to do the exact opposite either.

What are your indicator settings?

Well first I didn't say that it only works after thursday (on fridays). During manual backtesting of tkimble's weekly scalping method I noticed that fridays tend to have rather large ranges though and I thought of a way to exploit that.

Hello Mason, I ought to add that the MFE numbers might be misleading, they only tell you in hindsight how much profit a trade might have generated. Caculating the average number for MAE values can be dangerous since it doesn't necessarily tell you ...

Hello Mason, 1. The pair is GBP/USD 2. Yes, losing trades have been skipped in the spreadsheet. My intention was to optimize the initial stop loss width by determining how small it can be set without stopping you out of more then 1/4 or 1/2 of the ...

Hello, I tried to improve the system by reducing it to 1 lot only, without using fibonacci retracements to add to the initial position. This way, you only look for big moves in the direction of your entry. Then I searched for those moves (mostly 200 ...

Trade Experiment #303C Buy GBP/USD at 1.9380 — The entry order hasn't been filled yet, has it?

questions to llambert3 — On which pair did you backtest your weekly strategy? Why didn't you include 2002?

delayed dots — Hello Tom, based on my experience the dots of the shi-silvertrend indicator are being repainted. The shorter the chart timframe, the more bars it may take for them to appear. This feature makes it hard if not impossible to ...

Backtest — I manually backtested my implementation of Batfink on GBP/USD. I think I used the original rules, with these exceptions: T4 is 100 pips away from HL A re-entry was allowed only if price hit HL again after previous trade was closed ...

Well I think I can already answer my own question: Using a 30 pip trailing stop from the beginning would indeed signifcantly reduce profitability. Especially those trades which hit T4 by the original rules would have been stopped out early.