Monthly Profit - Daily Trading using SMA

Berish engulfing just take place on 15m

this is one of the best strategies , in this crazy week , I made 400 pips , thanks Bk8 , thanks so much

Would you mind sharing what trades you took - at what price and how many pips for each.

Hi All, any setup for today?

What happen Eur and Gbp ?
wild run! Like just the super power momentum at Asian time

You may want to paper trade this longer. 5% of your trades accounted for 71% of your profits. One trade out of 57 accounted for 35% of your profits.

Hi Monokl, nothing special to mention on GBP but all pair in EUR were having a big move up probably due to some sound year-end profit taking from EURUSD bears.

And of course same move observed on the CHF satelite.

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Hi CLtrader, Thats how the best traders make their fortunes. Do you honeatly believe that if you just stick to 2% trades all of your life you will make it out of the depths? Discipline is more important as per when as it is per how much. The greats like Jesse Livermore and the likes of Warren Buffet trade this way. They are very disciplined in their strategy but recgonize when the stars align and go in for the homerun. Im not going to tell anybody how to manage their accounts but it has been said before and I'll say it again for the benefit of others. If you want to great, mimic the great. If you want to make a fortune, mimic those that have made a fortune before you.

Than you for that. Another way of saying it is 'stiletto heel' focus. It works, especially when you talk about your future achievement in the present tense.

Bk8, please change page 1 to reflect the SMA 5,0 to SMA 5, 3, unless you are currently using a different setting.

Thanks.

Hi Bobcat2, SMA 5,0 is the current setting after it was established by Bk8 and other members it is more efficient than the initial 5,3 setting.

No setups today?

I started with:
EURGBP short,
AUDCAD short (already 40 PIPS in profit)
EURCAD short

I am observing:
AUDUSD (is on a support line, waiting for break threw)
GBPUSD (doesn´t move in the right direction now)

Somehow I missed the change back to 5, 0. Thanks for the correction, Filipo...

Have you experimented with the other obvious variants of 5, 1 or 5, 2 ? Trader nanningbob has traded the SMA5 with settings of 5, 1 with linear weighting with excellent results.

Goodaftenon traders market is full of mushroms acording to rules of strategy see and find with wich pair you gona be more confortable
Eur/aud, eur/usd, usd/chf, aud/jpy, nzd/jpy, aud/chf, eur/gbp,cad/jpy, gbp/jpy, eur/cad, usd/jpy.

What I have positively experimented is a close strategy to this one encouraging the use of both SMA 5,0 and 5,1 based on typical price or (H+L+C) / 3.
Waiting for the crossing of 5,1 by 5,0 helps to filter out better setups.

Today's entry signals
CADCHF Long
EURAUD Short

Market is not prepered for trading on daily timeframe basis..... to much wick's in all pairs....

Hello Bobcat2, coming back on 5,1 linear (on top) vs. 5,0 simple, here is a comparison done on Android MT5 which conveniently allows to have multiple charts on the screen obviously for phablets only.