Trading Systems - page 3

Hello. I opened this topic because i see the that this subject it is less known and discussed among the traders. To understand in simple terms what negative skew means i will define it: a trading system has negative skew when most of the time you make small profits but occasionally you take a very

Is it defined by the number of trades per day, or by how quickly each trade is opened and closed? Some say "many trades," others say "short holding time." What's your take

Fixed Take Profit target, Trailing Stop Loss, Both

Risk/money management, Handling market irregularities, Emotional control (trusting the EA), Finding a consistently profitable strategy, Backtesting accuracy

Has anyone actually used an EA for passing their prop firm challenge and maintaining their prop firm accounts over a long period of time? If so, do you have proof? Trade history on myfxbook, for example? Thanks

HI,Which strategy is best for BTCUSD

I’d like to discuss the difference between what we often call a “strong breakout” and a “false breakout”. What criteria do you personally use (candlestick body size, volume, retest behavior, multi-timeframe confirmation)? My observation: sometimes a breakout above recent highs comes with strong

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Today on EurUsd, in on hour, the famous ADP Non Farm (12:15 gmt) The peak of today (point of control aka peak time of price PTP) is in the vacuum of yesterday. We stay out of market, too dangerous. I prefer trade another day. I wait & see. The good trade was the counter trend near the yesterday PTP...

I can't see the MT5 VPS option anywhere! I tried Navigator - not there I tried tools - unable to select I tried tools --> option, no cloud tab to select. I have tried on 3 accounts: Metaquotes, IC Markets and Pepperstone. Anyone knows the issue? Thank

Hi all, I’ve been experimenting with a structure-based EA approach on XAUUSD where internal market behavior is evaluated together with a few correlated markets (mainly index and dollar-related symbols) to derive contextual confirmation before execution. The technical idea is to combine: Market

Recently been thinking about the idea of making EAs that use different timeframes: H4-M15 H1-M5 M15-M3 Have someone donde this

Why Robust EAs Are Built on Statistical Validation, Not Optimal Parameters Over the years I have been doing trading on my own and buying some EAs in the market, I’ve noticed that most discussions around EA development — here and elsewhere — still revolve around the same core objective: Find the best

Hello traders How knows this strategy and can explain to us. It used 2 chOch. One from Htf and second by LTF

hello dear traders if someone have any adaptable strategy or idea about a unique strategy that unlike %99 strategies out there can make consistent money in every market conditions (choppy and trending market) welcomes here

Recently been backtesting different EA's and started to face a problem, how to know if I'm testing with the right data? For the moment I've only tested with every tick based in real data, but been on curious on where does this data comes from

In this thread we will build our own Bollinger Band strategy by combining our heads together. Let's discuss: DISCUSS: - what do you think is the best way to recognize RANGED and BREAKOUT? - what other indicators complement the Bollinger Band? - what is in your experience the best timeframe for...

Quick question to traders : let me ask you ,has anyone here used funding rates as a standalone trading system, in crypto or forex ? i don't mean as an indicator, but as a real edge for entries, bias, or hedging. if yes i am curious to hear real results, not theory

This is the thread about books related for stocks, forex, financial market and economics. Please make a post about books with possible cover image, short description and official link to buy (amazon for example). Posts without books' presentation, without official link to buy and with refferal links...

There are so many systems out here based on indicators and it takes so much time to go through all of them to see which one deserves merit,I simply did not feel like adding one more. However most are indicator based and lagging indicators make it difficult to really simplify trading decisions and

Afternoon, the trading logic I formulated is developed by understanding the relationship between price and volume. The intention is to buy as low as possible when the last sell order has been executed (absorbed a buy order), and to sell as high as possible when the last buy order has been executed

Hello fellow traders! I'm experiencing intermittent and severe issues with my broker's Trade Server that cause the client terminal (MT5) to desynchronize from the server. Symptom example (broker log): order #282341555 buy 20 / 20 WINZ25 at market done in 158785.980 ms (|{INTRADAY}|) Yes — 158,786 ms

I don't know if others were doing the same, having multiple EA running simultaneously on the same pair. So, I think each can work smoothly, and speedy

Hello, I am using the EMA 200, but I am confused about what ADX period I should use. Should I use ADX 200, or a lower or higher period? Up Trend: Market Price > EMA 200 ADX > 30 DI+ > DI- Down Trend: Market Price < EMA 200 ADX > 30 DI+ < DI- Please suggest what ADX period I should use. Is there any

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I decided to make some indicators' review based on trading experience and using them inside manual trading systems. So, please find the first thread about Stochastic Oscillator. Feel free to add or write any comments concerning this indicator about how to use it inside trading systes, how to trade

Hey Traders, Just want to get your thoughts on using mt5 on Mac or IOS? Is the functionality still the same (or worse) as on Windows? Also does it run better (performance) on Mac? What would you get or current have if you were in my position. I'm thinking of buying either a mac pro or Ipad to

Recently I was experimenting with a couple of indicators used for a non-scalping system presented by BigBear - https://www.mql5.com/en/forum/177573 I was debugging one of the indicators when I switched to the M5 chart and noticed a nice setup for a quick short trade... hmmm.... probably a...

Hello , at Stochastic Oscillator thread , Dear Mladen wrote a cool indicator , which was Dear PAVA's idea.It was DSS3 . It's a good system for scalping . I want to scalp with it and share my result at this thread .

Dual Candle-stick Strategy My 4HR Dual Candlestick strategy is based on dual candlestick patterns in which the second candle is completely contained by the high and low of the first candle. Using two indicators for this strategy are Bollinger Band (20,2, close) RSI (14, close, Levels 30,50,70) Long