DislikedAfter spending the past year backtesting on forex almost every single day for hours and live trading with demo account for over 7 months, I have decided to faze out of just blind strategy application with forex+macro and move onto the indices, with a risk centric approach. Id love to see you update this thread, I might make some updates down the line of my own viewpoints. I have come up with a really robust system which was able to perform during the bearish years of 2022 a bit of 2020/18 and 2008. I thought Id just jump in with some of my insight...Ignored
KEEP IT AS SIMPLE AS POSSIBLE.
The way I interpret market BIAS is simply from Higher Timeframes. That is it, no cycles, no type of month or even looking at other pairs. It is simply just Higher Timeframe BIAS. I don't really know what else to say to your points. As long as the BIAS is CLEAR I will trade the commodity, equity, foreign exchange and anything else.
If you are a day trader / intraday trader, it is best to keep things as simple as possible. Whatever you are trading, just set your News Outcomes to that, for me I only have selected :
GBP, JPY, USD, EUR & CNY. (RED & ORANGE FOLDERS ONLY)
The other's are irrelevant, and when there is news that comes on the day just don't trade. I know when you are new you want to check everything and anything, and you want to make money as fast as possible however the best thing to do is just keep it simple.
Backtest any strategy to your preference, become profitable for at least 3 months making 5% a month of your initial starting balance and once you are able to do it with good risk management and discipline, that is how you know you are a profitable trader.
Not sure what else to say, if you need any help just reply here with your question or send a dm, Good Luck !