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  • #17,861
  • May 30, 2017 2:51am May 30, 2017 2:51am
Morning everyone. So much reading material to catch up on - thought everyone was on holiday!? I know I was, lol.

The Frankfurt Break eased me back into the game, clean as a whistle...+5

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Over at The Dax-Monster 07:55, it ended up doing what I thought it was going to do and went long - but the whip short first was a pain in the ass. The joys of countering, eh...

Well, I have reading to do to catch up on events over the weekend - though not now...I'm crashing till The Dead Zone! Took the chance of a trip to Knoydart over the long weekend and didn't get back till really late, so not slept yet as went straight into Frankenbreak action. I now cannot keep my eyes open, lol.

Apologies to those who are waiting on answers to various questions I promised over the weekend. I haven't forgotten, honest.

In my defence, would you have turned down the chance to see this?

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I'm off for now.
  • #17,862
  • May 30, 2017 3:15am May 30, 2017 3:15am
[quote=lemercenaire;9922264]Morning everyone. So much reading material to catch up on - thought everyone was on holiday!? I know I was, lol. The Frankfurt Break eased me back into the game, clean as a whistle...+5 {image} Over at The Dax-Monster 07:55, it ended up doing what I thought it was going to do and went long - but the whip short first was a pain in the ass. The joys of countering, eh... Well, I have reading to do to catch up on events over the weekend - though not now...I'm crashing till The Dead Zone! Took the chance of a trip to Knoyda

Scotland is a beautiful country, i have spent a lot of time there in the past.
SEE LINE,TRADE LINE..PRICE HAS TO GO SOMEWHERE,,, PRICE WILL GO SOMEWHERE.
  • #17,863
  • May 30, 2017 3:17am May 30, 2017 3:17am
t 09-16. i notice Cable has shot up, i guess one of us will have sell orders coming in soon???
SEE LINE,TRADE LINE..PRICE HAS TO GO SOMEWHERE,,, PRICE WILL GO SOMEWHERE.
  • #17,864
  • May 30, 2017 3:17am May 30, 2017 3:17am
i am off, i have things to do in my Ladys garden
SEE LINE,TRADE LINE..PRICE HAS TO GO SOMEWHERE,,, PRICE WILL GO SOMEWHERE.
  • #17,865
  • May 30, 2017 4:16am May 30, 2017 4:16am
How dare you go off enjoying yourself....we want answers...!!
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Onwards and upwards...
  • #17,866
  • Edited 6:25am May 30, 2017 4:57am | Edited 6:25am
Quoting lemercenaire
{quote} Used them a while ago but not now (no bad reason, just made a change). They were fine. Good customer service.
Thanks Lem ur always a help!!
Lend me ur opinion on this too lem. After billy told me to look into trading small and compounding given my bankroll I ran a a manual test over the last 50 trading days and came up with this. (Done this test on 7:45 cable)
0.5% per pip

Hi/low plus/minus a full one pip for entry, helps avoid those God awful trip-ins by 0.2 pips only to be dragged to the other end of the candle. (Over this test this rule hasn't seemed to have damaged any results much)

First position gets exited at +5 then double size is entered with a target of 2 points and 5 point stop which puts the percent return at 4.5% if the whole 7 points is reached and a loss of 2.5% if the 5 is reached but the compound fails. And obviously whatever candle size there is will be the loss if it's an outright failure before 5 is made.

Over 50 trades there was 15 losses (5 of which were failures of the compound attempts)
Total loss was 67.7%
Total won 157.5%
Net return 89%

Nothing like Billys 25% a week lol but what you think?

Big edit: ran through the percentage returns on the account day by day and it turns out it's more like 75% return to date. Seems like jus subtracting the total lost and the total won doesn't approximate it well anyone know why this is? Is it some mathematical quirk lol

Even so I wouldn't turn down a 75% return in less than two months at all lol
  • #17,867
  • May 30, 2017 7:21am May 30, 2017 7:21am
Quoting soccerfan
{quote} Great trading, all those trades were taken with a move of 16 pips....1.2842 to 1.2826.......shows what can be done, when you know how...!!! on a bank holiday too....Brill
Maybe just got lucky.
  • #17,868
  • May 30, 2017 7:31am May 30, 2017 7:31am
Quoting billytt
{image} e/j daily chart up to and including Fri 13th Feb.... 1 = Thur candle , High 13635 & low 13471. 2 = Fri candle, High 13603 & low 13515. Forget Friday was a short trading day. Notice Friday is an inside bar, The high and low of this candle can be traded aggressively and/or the high low of the mother bar (Thursday). SO we have the daily breakout , I very rarely trade breakout over weekend due to spread but let us see what happens. Trade lines/triggers , I wont comment where I think it will go as it doesn't matter. If I say it hopefully will...
sorry for quoting such an old post but i am trying to learn the e/j breakout strategy and and im starting from the beginning and I have a question. If "yesterday's" Daily Bar that we mark our HH/LL for the breakouts happens to be a INSIDE BAR.......do we still trade that bar as normal? or is our previous bar being an "inside bar" make our breakout trade for that day "not valid"? I wasn't sure if Inside Bars being our Previous Candle is Good or Bad? Txs for your help in advance!!!
  • #17,869
  • May 30, 2017 7:45am May 30, 2017 7:45am
@sb - here's an advisor Ferru coded for me some time back based on e/j day break. Got source code somewhere.
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  • #17,870
  • May 30, 2017 7:46am May 30, 2017 7:46am
Quoting Piphunter00
{quote} Thanks Lem ur always a help!! Lend me ur opinion on this too lem. After billy told me to look into trading small and compounding given my bankroll I ran a a manual test over the last 50 trading days and came up with this. (Done this test on 7:45 cable) 0.5% per pip Hi/low plus/minus a full one pip for entry, helps avoid those God awful trip-ins by 0.2 pips only to be dragged to the other end of the candle. (Over this test this rule hasn't seemed to have damaged any results much) First position gets exited at +5 then double size is entered...
No worries, buddy - happy to help if I can.

I too am sharing your flirtation with DAX ideas. It is a powerful drug, for sure. I have been looking at the 07:55 and we'll see how that goes. The jury is still very much out.

Anyway, your thing. My brain is still kinda' foggy from lack of sleep (even Warren Zevon in the background isn't shaking it, it's that bad, lol) but I see nothing particularly wrong. My only concern - and it's a major concern - is the speed the DAX-Monster moves at. I don't know if you have watched your potential set up live yet but what I have found on my thing is that it looks like you'd hit a home-run every ball, only to find when you run it live you realise how damn fast that ball is coming at you. I am batting just over .65 after a couple of weeks live. Still ahead but not by anywhere near as much as I should be if I could have got my entries when I wanted them. However looking back at them, every one did what I had anticipated it was going to do.

If you are anticipating having to be getting in-and-out of trades really quickly, I would say that you need to get demoing it live as soon as you can. Not so much on the dollar figures that come but purely to see if you can run the mechanics of the thing. I swear there was a trade last week where my eye didn't even register that price had reversed and reversed again before it had already done a double-turn-back-flip-with-triple-salchow in my face.

As an aside, how does this variant stand up against just taking the first +5 hit?
  • #17,871
  • May 30, 2017 7:48am May 30, 2017 7:48am
Quoting claudia1
@sb - here's an advisor Ferru coded for me some time back based on e/j day break. Got source code somewhere. {file}
What's it do, Claudia? EJ DB I take it?

EDIT: I really have to try and wake up...

based on e/j day break....

(or at least read the whole post!!!!)
  • #17,872
  • May 30, 2017 7:51am May 30, 2017 7:51am
Quoting lemercenaire
{quote} What's it do, Claudia? EJ DB I take it?
Yep. It's very simple based on Billy's spec
  • #17,873
  • May 30, 2017 7:55am May 30, 2017 7:55am
Over at The Dead Zone, I managed to stumble onto a good set-up with GU.

Price was sitting at resistance and it was also a potential 1-2-3 set-up. Good enough. Short from the top zone.

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  • #17,874
  • May 30, 2017 7:58am May 30, 2017 7:58am
[quote=Piphunter00;9922771]{quote} Thanks Lem ur always a help!! Lend me ur opinion on this too lem. After billy told me to look into trading small and compounding given my bankroll I ran a a manual test over the last 50 trading days and came up with this. (Done this test on 7:45 cable) 0.5% per pip Hi/low plus/minus a full one pip for entry, helps avoid those God awful trip-ins by 0.2 pips only to be dragged to the other end of the candle. (Over this test this rule hasn't seemed to have damaged any results much) Total won 157.5% Net return 89% Nothing like Billys 25% a week lol but what you think?

Dont forget, i have losses but as long as i have 5% on a trading day it doesnt count. Casualties happen.
SEE LINE,TRADE LINE..PRICE HAS TO GO SOMEWHERE,,, PRICE WILL GO SOMEWHERE.
  • #17,875
  • May 30, 2017 8:01am May 30, 2017 8:01am
[quote=Piphunter00;9922771]{quote} Thanks Lem ur always a help!! Lend me ur opinion on this too lem. After billy told me to look into trading small and compounding given my bankroll I ran a a manual test over the last 50 trading days and came up with this. (Done this test on 7:45 cable) 0.5% per pip Hi/low plus/minus a full one pip for entry, helps avoid those God awful trip-ins by 0.2 pips only to be dragged to the other end of the candle. (Over this test this rule hasn't seemed to have damaged any result

you can use stops but it adds more problems to a trade, Still good though
SEE LINE,TRADE LINE..PRICE HAS TO GO SOMEWHERE,,, PRICE WILL GO SOMEWHERE.
  • #17,876
  • May 30, 2017 8:02am May 30, 2017 8:02am
Quoting lemercenaire
Over at The Dead Zone, I managed to stumble onto a good set-up with GU. Price was sitting at resistance and it was also a potential 1-2-3 set-up. Good enough. Short from the top zone. {image}
Not convinced yet will wait a bit. Thls is how it played yesterday.
  • #17,877
  • May 30, 2017 8:05am May 30, 2017 8:05am
Quoting bojack34
{quote} sorry for quoting such an old post but i am trying to learn the e/j breakout strategy and and im starting from the beginning and I have a question. If "yesterday's" Daily Bar that we mark our HH/LL for the breakouts happens to be a INSIDE BAR.......do we still trade that bar as normal? or is our previous bar being an "inside bar" make our breakout trade for that day "not valid"? I wasn't sure if Inside Bars being our Previous Candle is Good or Bad? Txs for your help in advance!!!

Hi and welcome, a Daily Inside Bar is always good. you can trade with just these.
A break of an inside daily bar can get you more points, example ib breaks low then continues down to previous days daily low then the +%%%, Thay can fail too, just a warning
SEE LINE,TRADE LINE..PRICE HAS TO GO SOMEWHERE,,, PRICE WILL GO SOMEWHERE.
  • #17,878
  • May 30, 2017 8:08am May 30, 2017 8:08am
Quoting lemercenaire
{quote} No worries, buddy - happy to help if I can. I too am sharing your flirtation with DAX ideas. It is a powerful drug, for sure. I have been looking at the 07:55 and we'll see how that goes. The jury is still very much out. Anyway, your thing. My brain is still kinda' foggy from lack of sleep (even Warren Zevon in the background isn't shaking it, it's that bad, lol) but I see nothing particularly wrong. My only concern - and it's a major concern - is the speed the DAX-Monster moves at. I don't know if you have watched your potential set up...
Thanks Lem! U must be tired mate cause you must of saw DAX in my post as opposed to cable LOOL! I wouldn't touch that dax for nobody thats billy's mistress lol. I ran this test on cable. And yeah your concern is definitely shared! Cable can be a quick mover too. I'm thinking either attempt to code up something that can help with the compounding or manually setup the compounding orders with tp and sl already set but very far away from price and whichever direction I get tripped in on the bar I'll drag the corresponding compound order to where it needs to be and remove the other lol.

To your question about the +5 only, it would only have saved me five losses out of the 15 bringing the win rate up to 80% from 70% and although I haven't ran the numbers I'm not sure that would help me much because my wins would only be 2.5% without the extra lil 2 points compounded. Whereas the losses that still remained would be the same in terms of how much percent they take me down making them harder to come back from. Although nothing can be said without running the numbers so I'll take that as a challenge and get back to you lol
  • #17,879
  • May 30, 2017 8:11am May 30, 2017 8:11am
Quoting billytt
{quote} Hi and welcome, a Daily Inside Bar is always good. you can trade with just these. A break of an inside daily bar can get you more points, example ib breaks low then continues down to previous days daily low then the +%%%, Thay can fail too, just a warning
Thank you very much! I'll add that to the "notebook"
  • #17,880
  • May 30, 2017 8:14am May 30, 2017 8:14am
[quote=Piphunter00;9923574]{quote} Thanks Lem! U must be tired mate cause you must of saw DAX in my post as opposed to cable LOOL! I wouldn't touch that dax for nobody thats billy's mistress lol. I ran this test on cable. And yeah your concern is definitely shared! Cable can be a quick mover too. I'm thinking either attempt to code up something that can help with the compounding or manually setup

with compounding, it doesnt have to be a full 100% compound , maybe just add on 10% or what ever. small gains mount up.
Even try taking he 5% before the stat 10 (if used) and trade the retrace, you will end up with more
SEE LINE,TRADE LINE..PRICE HAS TO GO SOMEWHERE,,, PRICE WILL GO SOMEWHERE.
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