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  • First Post: Edited Aug 10, 2012 9:35am May 12, 2010 4:36am | Edited Aug 10, 2012 9:35am
Hi all,

CHOROS (pronounced ho-roh-sh) means Dance in Greek.
Since that's where I am from, I thought I could use this as a name since anything else could be considered dangerous. My name doesn't start from "e" which is also considered dangerous in FF.

Anyway, I am posting this just to have a home for those who want to continue discussing the Dance strategy which has been moved by the admins. My experience with the strategy is very positive so far and I will continue trading this way since it has changed my results dramatically. Original rules here: http://www.forexfactory.com/showthread.php?t=224697
(EDIT) Clay decided to offer even more help by updating his manual and allowing us to post in the CHOROS thread:
http://www.forexfactory.com/showpost...postcount=2591
Reposted here: http://www.forexfactory.com/showthre...36#post5920136


I would like to keep this place clean with the same strict rules that the original thread had. I will not be able to post as often as Clay but feel free to help each other in here. Also this thread is not to argue about if the ban of the original thread is fair or not. There is a thread for that already in the Member's Lounge. This thread is only for the original strategy.

For now I leave you with a picture of my account BD and AD (Before Dance and After Dance).

Kostas.

EDIT: MM rules on page 72, post 1080

ADDED 31/03/2011: duffypratt has done some excellent work creating a table of contents for the thread. A big thanks to him from the rest of us. The TOC is attached as a Word document below (for those of you that don't already know, if you hold "CTRL" and click on the link, your browser will get you to that post.
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Please be careful to be inelegant in your writing style, apparently certain styles are frowned upon if they infringe on the style of other members in certain standing in the Forex Factory forum.

Glad to see a thread to support this simple yet effective trading style.
Top man Kosta! That really made me chuckle.

The real shame of what happened here is that we had such a positive and friendly vibe on our thread that those with intentions to remove it, probably never saw.

I think you should kick things off with a summary of how you have traded it and how you have used it with your own little spin. It is a great way to use this strategy to steadily grown an account.

It's a shame you can't access the chat mate, your input is sorely missed
Quoting Trotty
Top man Kosta! That really made me chuckle.

The real shame of what happened here is that we had such a positive and friendly vibe on our thread that those with intentions to remove it, probably never saw.

I think you should kick things off with a summary of how you have traded it and how you have used it with your own little spin. It is a great way to use this strategy to steadily grown an account.

It's a shame you can't access the chat mate, your input is sorely missed
Trotty,

I am trading from work through a firewall which doesn't like the chat software. I miss you guys too.

The twist that I added to this method can be described by the following:

1. I have always open a M1 chart during trading which helps me fine tune my entries & exits.
2. I tend to take quick profits. My daily target is 30-40 pips with 3% risk. So usually using the Dance rules I can achieve this in 3-4 trades (each from 8-15 pips). My SL is no more than 15-19 pips. If I judge from M1 that action doesn't like me I stop the trade earlier than 19 pips.
3. Other than that the name of the game is to react quickly during the normal Dance bounces (MA, RN, etc.). IF you reach daily target then you immediately quit for the day. If you reach daily loss you also quit.

In time I will mention a couple of other things that I found to be helpful in getting higher winning %.

Kostas
Quoting kostas1
Trotty,

I am trading from work through a firewall which doesn't like the chat software. I miss you guys too.

The twist that I added to this method can be described by the following:

1. I have always open a M1 chart during trading which helps me fine tune my entries & exits.
2. I tend to take quick profits. My daily target is 30-40 pips with 3% risk. So usually using the Dance rules I can achieve this in 3-4 trades (each from 8-15 pips). My SL is no more than 15-19 pips. If I judge from M1 that action doesn't like me I stop the trade earlier...
Great stuff, cheers Kosta
Hi Guys,

I am here.

Not that I am a whole heap of help to anyone presently!

Good job EKOstas.

Funnily enough, I had a great question for you this morning and I can't bloody recall it now.

I am sure it will come.

Regards

Lee

ps. Can/Will you include any of the original material or is this simply a continuation?

I only ask as newer people won't know what the hell is going on. May be we can post the MA's or something? I dont want to mess with your thread especially gven the sensative nature of it all.

Regards
Quoting kostas1
Trotty,

I am trading from work through a firewall which doesn't like the chat software. I miss you guys too.

The twist that I added to this method can be described by the following:

1. I have always open a M1 chart during trading which helps me fine tune my entries & exits.
2. I tend to take quick profits. My daily target is 30-40 pips with 3% risk. So usually using the Dance rules I can achieve this in 3-4 trades (each from 8-15 pips). My SL is no more than 15-19 pips. If I judge from M1 that action doesn't like me I stop the trade earlier...
Kosta,

Juneman has asked me to tell you that if you go onto the site now and download flash 9 from the front page, you should be able to get access from work. If you are still struggling, he will get in touch with you if you send me a PM with contact details and he will sort it out for you. He reckons it's easy to sort out.

In the meantime, do you mind if I put a link to chat room here? Therre is now no charge for anything and Juneman has said that he will not accept any donations from anyone either. This should hopefully prevent admin making me a commercial memebr for putting the link up (this is why Juneman can't post now)!!

Cheers mate

Trotty
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Quoting leemonk

ps. Can/Will you include any of the original material or is this simply a continuation?

I only ask as newer people won't know what the hell is going on. May be we can post the MA's or something? I dont want to mess with your thread especially gven the sensative nature of it all.

Regards

Lee,
You are correct. I have updated the first post with an appropriate link.

In my opinion, what's described there is a great start, but if we find in this thread that we can evolve the system we certainly can do that. I for one will add some observations later on.

Kostas
Quoting Trotty
Kosta,...
Thanks for the effort mate.
I have personally experienced the chat and I can vouch for it. In short, a great bunch of guys that are honing their trading style by using predominantly the Dance strategy. Since there is no charge I have no problem if you post the link here.
Oh, before I forget if you get in the chat be ready to experience some good laughs too.... (humor is abundant in there).

Kostas
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  • Edited May 13, 2010 3:25am May 12, 2010 6:18am | Edited May 13, 2010 3:25am
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Lee,
You are correct. I have updated the first post with an appropriate link.

In my opinion, what's described there is a great start, but if we find in this thread that we can evolve the system we certainly can do that. I for one will add some observations later on.

Kostas
I was going to post a template with the following MA's on if its okay with you?

The second set in the 15m and the 1hr are the 1hr and the daily equivalents. I was going to put this on one template and then people can add to it at their end with which ever other indicators they wish and save the relevant TF's

15m

10 ema
35 sma
50 ema

40 ema
140 sma
200 ema
248 ema

1Hr

10 ema
35 sma
50 ema
62 ema

120 ema
420 sma
600 eam

D1

10 ema
35 sam
50 ema

*EDIT*

Please note that this template reflects where I currently am in the original thread. Endroute, I beleive had added the 1hr 62ema, which Clay was happy with and at this stage I am looking at charts which now contain the 1hr equivalents on the 15minute. I have just added the Daily equivalents to the 1hr chart.

This template does not include the following indicators: Candle time, Spread, Clock and Round Numbers (RN). RN is important to this method so please ensure you download it from Kostas' link.

Please remove as nessesary.
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Kinda sad to post here knowing Clay isn't going to comment on it.

Regards

Lee
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Kostas,

Can I ask where you get that information from, ie your charts that show your equity curve?

Suranga,

We might be able to quote from the original thread, so we can preserve key information that way too.

Lee
Quoting leemonk
Kinda sad to post here knowing Clay isn't going to comment on it.

Regards

Lee
Lee,
In my experience it's best to take the first touch on the M15 scale. The second may be an attempt to cross.
On the other hand, I have found that on the M1 scale most times is better to take the 2nd touch. This means that while the M15 bar touches for the first time, the M1 will touch fake you up and then come back down to take your small SL. It will then go back up in the right direction. I call this head-fake and has helped me a lot to avoid some bad trades.

Kostas
Quoting kostas1
Lee,
In my experience it's best to take the first touch on the M15 scale. The second may be an attempt to cross.
On the other hand, I have found that on the M1 scale most times is better to take the 2nd touch. This means that while the M15 bar touches for the first time, the M1 will touch fake you up and then come back down to take your small SL. It will then go back up in the right direction. I call this head-fake and has helped me a lot to avoid some bad trades.

Kostas



i wont mind an example to explain this better because i don't get it, i think it will help. please kindly reply this.


thank you all and God bless everyone
btw thanks to the original author for books in the package (napoleon's is a must!)
Not sure if this one is with the rules or not. It seemed so at the time, but looking at it now I am not so sure.

It does matter to me if its with the rules or not as I need to get to a point where I have a solid foundation in my trading before I start branching out.

COmments are welcome, infact are encouraged
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Quoting leemonk
COmments are welcome, infact are encouraged
I guess you should have waited at least till COB. This candle could have quickly reversed. Now it's going down fast... I guess it's better to wait for some confirmation in such cases (at least 3 bars?), but the best for me here is to not do anything and wait for a better by the rules setup.
Quoting leemonk
Not sure if this one is with the rules or not. It seemed so at the time, but looking at it now I am not so sure.

It does matter to me if its with the rules or not as I need to get to a point where I have a solid foundation in my trading before I start branching out.

COmments are welcome, infact are encouraged
In all three charts, you have big red down momentum bars. There was no buying. That's my opinion.
Thanks for the feedback. I beleive there was a trade there because had I set my SL where I say I should then I would have bagged 20 pips.

Was it against the rules? Almost certainly now that I look at it. I think I may still have to much of another system in my head at this stage. That trade was straight out of EOhaters thread, where 20 pips was an almost perfect trade.

Don't get me wrong, I would have been happy with 20pips, but I WANT, I MUST get back to..... I was going to say basics, but I realise that I dont even have that at this stage.

I just read this from Clays thread and have taken the liberty of posting it here. I'll try and 'quote' it but I tend to lose most of the message when I do that.

*edit*

The quote thing didnt work, it cut most of the message. This was a message from Earret: http://www.forexfactory.com/showpost...&postcount=479

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...........Clay has provided a strategy that if followed overtime can provide some serious results. I have been following this thread from the begining and will admit that on paper looks very easy to implement. For whatever reasons (all of which i believe are emotional) my results have not been that stellar...until last night. I had been taking many losses (very small losses) last night I noticed a setup that looked exactly like one of the setups that are in the manual...I took it!!!

Needless to say that one trade has wiped out all of my losses and then some. After I closed out that trade I sat back and thought about what had just happened and realized that this is exactly what Clay has been telling us. I asked myself why cant i just look for these kinds of trades? why do i get too anxious and force trades that do not work out? Although I had followed the rules on all of the trades the losses were not A+ setups and probably should have been disregarded, but they were not huge losses and were all recouped after one A+ trade.

This had done something for my confidence that no other trading strategy has accomplished in the past...i guess you could say it was my...ah ha...moment.

Sorry for the long post but i wanted to say thank you to clay for everything you have provided and your on going input and support to the benefit of others, it is truley inspirational.

One other thing...for those of you who have not read "Think and Grow Rich" I highly recommend. I read the book a long time ago and just finished it again...and in my opinion the principles of that book are at work right here in this thread.

Good job Clay you are living proof, on a daily basis of the principles that Napoleon Hill laid out in the book.

Thanks again
Mike[/quote]

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Sorry for the long post, but it hit a key note with me. This is where I am at. I want to take everything and am finding it hard NOT to. I take poor trades and then miss good ones that I was waiting for.

If that didn't work then I will repost in italics.

Regards

Lee
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