May die trying to get this right... but never give up...

Been trying to optimize settings for hours.
FIFO and no hedging rules means I have to get around it somehow.
USDCHF and EURUSD are pretty much mirror images.
Take only sells in EURUSD and take only buys in USDCHF
I have another ea that will close for a set net gain amount.
So three charts open 1 each for buying and selling and then one for the net gain closing.

Keeping a demo open through FED speak...
Live trading is shut down until afterwards.

The EA includes this line:if( Profit1==Profit2*(-1) ) // exactly opposing orders; closem
I wondererd if that could ever be executed. So, I introduced code to count it, and tried. Up until the ea died with margin stop, it didn't, even in the perfect world of no slippaged and constant spreads of the strategy tester.
Anyway, here is that ea with error checking and a little display of the total open orders and amount of margin used.

No need to have two pairs.
Just trade EURUSD. The ea is a nifty tool for placing orders. It is not meant to for just getting slapped on a chart and forgotten about.
It takes advantage of pullbacks.
I'm using bb20 and the 400sma to help identify direction..
then just using the controls on the ea to determine whether to buy or sell.
Starting with $500 and .01... after 6 months ion the simulator $1300 with no catastrophes.
only two manual closes for small losses. ended up selling a top and buying with a bottom.
No biggy.
Do not allow more than 3 or 4 max open at once and margin is no problem.
Drawdown is not an issue.
Looking for 10 pips... 10 or 15 trades a day.
this is what it looks like after 6 months visual mode, semi automatic ea...
The coder put this out there free!!!
The link for it and his explanation is on the first page of the thread...
I can't believe it. It's so great.

Hey great. But I've lost interest in this one. Completely blown away with the semi automatic one. Never seen anything like this. Do I dare say... "It's perfect!"
The link to the coders explanation and the ea are on the first page of the thread. He calls it "fishing.."

But I will take a look at what your work. I learn something from everything. Thanks.

Starting out with $500 trading .01, not allowing more than 3 or 4 positions open at once and trading with the trends and even in consolidations it was easily possible to reach $1000 in 5 months. Once $1000 is reached positions size can be increased to .02, $1500 .03, $2000 .04 can easily see how this could build very quickly. Semi automatic means I can trade when I want to. the trades do not stay open for very long.

Starting Jan 2016, $1000 .02 ending present Dec 14 .09 $5293
Three manual closes for a loss.. buying tops and selling bottoms... No biggy. Tiny blips on the chart.

1508 trades... - commission spreads...
figure (high) fee for .01= average .025

343 x .025x2= 17.15
289 x .025x3= 21.68
279 x .025x4= 27.90
227 x .025x5= 28.38
136 x .025x6= 20.40
112 x .025x7= 19.60
67 x .025x8= 14.40
51 x .025x9= 11.48
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$160.99

This is simulated trading.

Just before Fed speak no live trading for me and just about everyone else it seems..... Markets are pretty much stalled out and very slow.. But did snag one trade. Am running a $500 demo at .01

Even on a weird day like today, before Fed speak...
going to leave it running on the demo right through the event...
monitor it. No more than 3 or 4 open at any one time.

Yup. This is it. This semi automatic ea is the missing piece that ties everything else in together. Had to leave at 3pm for an appointment. But caught enough of the action right after Fed speak to see how this works. Great.

There is more to successful trading then just technical charts.
Yesterday afternoon I thought, "Oh I know it's late in the day but let me see if I can just get one more good trade in." I already had 50 pips.
Don't do it. I was a little tired and there wasn't that much time left before I had to close down. Don't do it. For one thing towards the end of the day the market slows down. Traders go home.
Sure enough. Once in the trade it didn't move. Stalled out and then it went against me big time.
If I had time and wasn't so tired I could ride it out. As it was, it was a good trade but it needed time and my attention. This is semi automatic trading.
Since I didn't have time, I had to close it for a small loss. Giving back pretty much what I had made that day.
I couldn't leave it open. A stop would have only mean a bigger loss and no stop meant I could really do some damage to the account.
Up early today and already well on the way to gaining back the loss with 3 good trades.... 30 pips. and the whole day ahead.

Forex factory has made a huge difference for me. Collaboration and sharing.
But that is probably going to be it for the journal.
My search is over.
I've struck the main vein.
Found the missing piece to all the indicators, charts and timing.
How to order by buying low and selling high within a trend and also during consolidations.
To tell the truth,
I sat down with the Lord a few days ago, after years of trying to figure this trading forex thing out and just said, "Dear Lord, please let me be successful doing this. I have to do something. Why not this? Thank you."
The very next day... no lie... I found the missing piece to the technical trading puzzle.
Anyone reading these journals and comes across this,
if you study the progression of this journal you will find the missing piece too.
But you might have to sit down and have a heart to heart with the Lord first.
Good luck to you.
Hare Krishna.