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Premise In continuation of previous article Set main rules where I described main particularities of this simple strategy, I am now exposing main data obtained from some back-test and the arrangements I did in order to improve the stability and profitability. Back-Test First of all, I wish the strategy to produce as many losses as possib…
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In the following article, I will describe a complete strategy for trading breakouts. This includes:Definition of “Breakout”ExamplesWhat Really Happens in a “Breakout”?Currencies to TradeTime Frames to TradeSessions to TradeFind a Level for Possible BreakoutGood SetupTrade EntryStop-Loss and Take-Profit LevelsSummary / Key PointsMany charts, with real setups and trade examples, …
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I consider myself as an amateur trader. Meaning not only that this is not my main occupation, but also that I’m not extracting income from this activity. This is mainly because all of my trading “experience” has been achieved through demo trading. By this point you’ll probably not continue reading this article because “if this guy doesn’t trade real money, what can I learn from him?”…
Trading in the clouds I was trading for one and a half years now. It was a quiet day, after a lot of drama because of the Japanese earthquake, the markets were breathing a little. I was stuck in a lot of positions, in all kind of unmoving markets, and even in 3 days strategies. Because time was good to me, it seemed that is passing harder than usual, I started testing everything that I had on…
Fellow Traders,In this article I will try to do a review of the past year in the context of both competitions conducted by Dukascopy, namely Traders and Strategy. Can we ultimately determine which is better, traders who trade by hands every day, or robots that never sleeps? Can we trust a robot to trade for us?Here are the statistics from the past year. In the following two tables I used data from…
Introduction I was always very interested in statistics and especially the field of machine learning. These are the “intelligent” algorithms that can learn to do a job rather than blindly following a script. I applied those to the forex with little success. Although I could never really predict the direction of movements based on passed price values, it was always simple to predict the absolut…
Introduction Ichimoku Kinko Hyo (commonly just shortened to Ichimoku) is a Japanese charting system created in the 1930’s by Goichi Hosoda. It is commonly used to assist in entry and exit points in trending markets, is popular in Japan, and recent years has gained popularity in the west. You may have heard of this charting system, given it a quick try, or maybe you’re a seasoned pro at using i…
After nearly six months of sleeping, one of the most volatile currency pairs before the introduction of the floor on 1.20, woke up. The reason for waking was restore the trust that the EU will find a solution to its debt crisis and the diminishing pressure…
Preferred Instrument - EURUSDPreferred Timeframe - 4H & aboveBacktest - NoStrategy owner - Loke4300 Risk reward ratio - 1:2; Disclaimer - As with all other systems out there, the success or failure of a technique depends more on trader and his discipline. Try this technique on DEMO account before you decide to implement this on REAL account. I wish to share one of my favorite m…
Everyone has a trading strategy, at least should have, no matter if it is a scalping or a long term we, as traders, always need to stick to that saying: plan your trade, trade your plan. So here is one of the strategies that I have been using in my forex endeavour. I call it: EMA touch and go.It is pretty basic and works based on the touch of the 5 EMA on a hourly chart and it is most effective in…
The Moving average convergence divergence (MACD) indicator, which was fist created by Gerald Appel in 1960s (DailyForex,2012), has been classified as a momentum indicator and is a valuable and popular implement for Forex traders. MACD shows the relationship between moving averages of two different prices and is calculated by deducting the 26-day exponential moving average (EMA) from the 12-day e…
IntroductionIn the first part of this series we have seen the starting point of the development of an strategy and some of the performance statistics that can be useful in this early state of work. Some criteria for 'interesting' results have been discussed as stone marks for deciding if it is worth continuing the work or not.In this part we discuss how this performance data with some other statis…
Introduction You have an idea for trading in your mind, one that can be put in full or partial algorithmic form; and you know how to code it as an strategy in some broker's technical solution; to focus on one take it Jforex. Now, what do you do? Do you start furiously to code in Java? Supposing that your algorithm is parametric, after you have a functional and tested code, do you start historical …
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By AC TurkmenI will not start this article by pretending that I’m an expert quant. All I am, an analytics expert whose day job is on a different research field but applies the same logic and principles to a moonlighting passion: currency trading.This article assumes elementary knowledge of quantitative trading and trading algorithm development (JForex development) concepts, and will try to intro…
