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Methods for preventing Whipsaw...

Hi - Looking for some good tactics to preventing whipsaw. 1.) Are there any good methods to employ to lengthen the period for an indicator based on average range, etc.? 2.) Should an indicator lengthen the period based on a profitable trade already in progress? 3.) Are there common indicators in the

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Genetic Algorithm in the Strategy Tester?

So... the other day I whipped up a little genetic algorithm to find systems and then I remembered that the Strategy Tester has a genetic algorithm checkbox. So... would it make the most sense to write an EA that took inputs for Indicator1Type, Indicator1Mode, Indicator1Period, Indicator1Type

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A fine example showing that the market CAN change!

This over the entire set of historical datapoints. Starts with 10K... ends at 15Billion. Mike

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Faking MT4 trades and live stats...

I have found something that really looks like it works, and would like to buy it from the author. Is there any way to fake forward trades? Thanks

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Who currently makes money with an EA?

1.) What is your strategy? 2.) What are you indicator, if any? 3.) What road did you take to your success? I currently make money with a probabalistic approach on EURUSD 1H. I make a calculation from the previous bar as to the most likely direction of travel and set a very conservative TP with a

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Lot sizing strategies and scaling out.

Yesterday I posted about how to prevent whipsaw and got some excellent advice about using Standard Deviation and one of his indicators. ( 'Methods for preventing Whipsaw...' ) Today, I am curious about lot sizing and how to keep otherwise profitable trades from turning into unprofitable trades due

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MQL4 Intellisense and parameter help...

Hi - When I'm entering parameters into function, say, iMA , and I get to the MODE and select the MODE, 'PRICE_CLOSE', the help for the function disappears and I can only view the help by returning the cursor to the beginning of the function. Anyone know how to get the help text for a function to