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Not an uptrend for the usd vs the yen just yet. However, long term the down trend would resume at near 102 levels and to sustain below 102 would be more difficult in my opinion that for this move to keep going to my uptrend mark which is at 117 area. Summary, more upside to the dollar than...

Looks like we have an amateur among the moderator crowd edit: Read your bio, you'd think with that phd you be a little smarter. O and by the way don't be mad i developed something that has made %50+ per year for 25 years trading 1 lot. Just keep getting those phd's and one day maybe you...

well if you'd know your history correctly, the euro historically is pegged/referred to the old german currency.

December of 1979 euro was in the 1.40-1.45 range

Here is what a previous upward trending usd jpy looked like

Usd Jpy still not really in a true upward trend yet

I got it to work correctly. I don't use "automated entry" so as long as i can get data for ts 2000i i'll use it forever. "If it ain't broke don't fix it"

As far as $ not % profits Stevie Cohen of SAC capital advisors took home $600-$650 million followed by James Simons of Renaissance tech $500-$550mil and coming in 3rd Paul Tudor Jones III with $500-$550 mil

Scalping forex with 100:1 leverage and up is glorified gambling Try it for awhile and see your account dwindle away in a days. Money is in the trends in any market and with futures equities commodities and forex i sure hope you can find something that is trending.

This is just the mechanical test, traded real time results are better because when a position is in profit i'll add another position. Up to 5 additions are common on one trade signal. Working on getting the data for usd cad I like to stay away from gbp usd and usd chf since they pretty much...

here is the Usd/Jpy

Heres what the backtest summary looks like

Thank you that really helped me out

I've developed a strategy that going back to 1979 has returned average year to date 54.10% or %1406.5 in 26 years for Eur / Usd. (working on usd jpy) Now thats without compounding i.e. trading 1 lot every trade since 1979 Avg winner: 619 pips Avg Loser: 268 pips Total of 70 trades...

I'm having trouble setting the parameters in ts 2000i to backtest. What inputs do i put in so it will calculate that .0300 for example means 300 pips * lots assigned.

no way long, after todays aftermath we'll see how much euro reacts next week, but should be looking to sell some more on further breakdowns.

Breakdown is that people who follow on whims and don't research will not learn how to trade or why cramer made those calls. They will be subscribing to action alert plus forever. But i guess thats ok for some Therefore i retract my "idiots" comment But rather say Sure action alert...

if your going to trade you should do some research before you buy something cramer says is ok. THe idiots i was referring to are the ones who buy the next morning because cramer said so.

Anyone have experience getting secondary issues. If so please post any info you'd like to share and what is the usual account size you need to get into that. $200K+??

Cramer is a really smart guy good to get some info about general market conditions. Is his style of investing appealing to me? No i do not like his style of investing. Everyone differs with trading styles but when you get down to it hes a smart guy and people can learn a lot. Now the...