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A simple filter could be from a trend indicator, such as using the slope direction of the 50EMA. I only buy stocks as trades when both they and the index have 50EMA's sloping upwards. I also avoid trading forex when the majority of recent daily price moves across the 28 main pairs are contrary...

A simple way - but which might not be available to you due to regulatory restrictions on brokers - would be use strategy A for longs and strategy B for shorts. This might skew results so after a test period, reverse the directions for A and B trades for a similar period. I have also sometimes...

These are tough times for forex long-term trend-following. I'm taking a break until these resume across the main pairs.

Most days there is no forex news for most currencies. Yet price keeps changing and if you follow the D1 charts you will see the effect of the news, and that's what's important. If there's no news or there's some news which doesn't affect price, you still have to watch the charts.

I well recall recommending to a trader group meeting that if all their FA and TA and poring over P&L sheets and Chairman's statements failed and they could not make a decision, fall back on the I Ching. Its not really supernatural but I'd say most of them thought it was.

Well KCalhoun has quality of life - he's constantly getting laid and is able to take half-hour breaks in the middle of it. I'm guessing he works from home.

Have I misunderstood? - you stand and stretch every half hour or so while you are getting laid? Mate, I am impressed. I find getting laid is stressful.

Consider something in life which is not easy but which you do not stress about - such as driving. Normally, we are not particularly stressed at the thought of driving 5 miles to the shops to buy some socks, or going round to see a friend, or popping round to visit the elderly relatives. Its...

Making a monthly return over 10 years does not necessarily demand identifying a single investment or asset class today that will have delivered that return in 1 decade's time. A simple and unambitious trading strategy which is consistently profitable will deliver. But as for the safety...

Your posts are too short. Try expanding your arguments a bit and include more detail. Talk to studentofthemarkets.

Its all tosh if you think anyone can be converted to Christianity because Jesus said this and Jesus said that. But then again, I'm sure your purpose here is not our conversion.

I honestly think some days I should stick a "Do not touch!" sticker over both Buy and Sell........ Hey ho.....

Traders in their early careers sometimes do reverse their trades and take the opposite direction to their entry signals. And a significant number of them make money doing this. But only a little consideration shows why this is the case. Inexperienced traders are attracted to reversal signals...

There are losses and there are losses. Its vital to identify what the losses are. Losses that arise from the correct operation of a profitable strategy are just like the utility bills that come in. Just check you adhered to the rules of the strategy. Losses from unexpected events indicate...

I am in the UK, brokers here are subject to strong anti-money laundering regulations. They will not process a withdrawal from a trader's unique account into a joint bank account: they will not allow a trader to open a unique trading account funded from a joint bank account. But they do offer...

I am sure I have to agree that birds are not crocodiles.

How do you define weekly expected move? Does this simply mean in line with the long-term trend or that the expected move responds to the prior week's / weeks' moves?

The stop-loss is the reverse of the entry. The parameters on which it is based come from the entry conditions - previous price behaviour plus current price. But price behaviour continues to develop after your entry. If price behaviour changes radically enough, it has the potential to invalidate...

You quite sure it wasn't Eddie Murphy?

This guy seems far down the road of self-delusion but is Australia as a whole really so religious? Is a large part of the electorate really impressed by such antics?