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Chance Inner circle 1385 Posts 
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Some of you guys know that I day trade the Forex currency markets.
What you may not know, is that it's possible to use automated trading. Which means that a robot called an Expert Advisor (EA) trades for you even when your computer is turned off. It's one of the things that drew me to it. It's also possible to have your own trading style coded into an EA. Which, as it turns out, is not quite as easy as it might sound. The pic shows my own EA at work. It's been nearly 24 months in the making and testing, and it's finally done. I feel like a proud papa. Click here to view attached image. |
S2000magician Inner circle Yorba Linda, CA 3465 Posts
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Very cool.
On a Money and Investing forum I moderate one of the members once asked how to get into Forex trading. I told him that it's easier simply to send me the money because he's likely to lose it anyway and I can use it a lot more than the currency brokers can. You need to be very good or very lucky to make money at Forex. Mostly very lucky. |
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Chance Inner circle 1385 Posts
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Yeah, there's a statistic floating around (not sure how true it is) that 95% of all retail FX traders blow their account. But it can be mastered. It just takes patience and dedication, the same as any complicated skill. You don't get to be 7th Dan overnight either, and I managed that too. I always knew I would be good at the FX. All of my other skill sets (like the martial arts, and even busking) definitely played a part; it always felt natural to me. So if anything was luck, it was having those experiences to fall back on.
What forum do you mean? |
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S2000magician Inner circle Yorba Linda, CA 3465 Posts
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On 2011-05-19 19:58, Chance wrote: Unless you're doing currency arbitrage - which is virtually impossible because the opportunities are incredibly rare and every transaction has a bid-ask spread - you make your money on speculation: guessing which currency will appreciate against which other currency (and still having to pay the bid-ask spread on each transaction). The best way to make money in Forex is to be a dealer, so that you get the bid-ask spread. Quote:
On 2011-05-19 19:58, Chance wrote: S2KI: Money and Investing. |
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Chance Inner circle 1385 Posts
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What you're saying is correct. But I'm not sure what it's supposed to mean to me. It sounds like you're schooling me, but I'm far from a FX noobie. I don't use arbitrage, I don't hedge, my RR (TP/SL) is 1:1, and I have lost less than 10% of my last 1000 trades, and I regularly take in between 500 and 2000 pips per week. And now my system can be traded in my sleep. I'm a FX success story. Be happy for me.
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balducci Loyal user Canada 227 Posts
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Well, congrats. Has your EA actually gone live yet?
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Bernard Sim Inner circle Singapore 1095 Posts
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The chart looks good but seems volatile. Are the green highlights the entry points? Any signals for exits? Losing 10% out of 1000 trades is a very good record. Congrats.
Bernard Sim
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Chance Inner circle 1385 Posts
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On 2011-05-19 21:43, balducci wrote: Thank you, and yes. |
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Chance Inner circle 1385 Posts
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On 2011-05-19 21:45, Bernard Sim wrote: Volatility is a good thing. It's a by-product of high trading volume, which is always better than a chart with low volume. The green boxes are reference points created by my EA. From the information thay create I can make my trading choices. |
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S2000magician Inner circle Yorba Linda, CA 3465 Posts
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On 2011-05-19 21:15, Chance wrote: I'm not. Inasmuch as many people here may not have as much experience as you in Forex it might be useful to discuss it a bit. Quote:
On 2011-05-19 21:15, Chance wrote: I am. As I wrote at the first: very cool! |
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