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5 Min TrendPipper with NonLagMA, EMA and Pivots
I like this system because:

1. Keeps me out until trend is starting
2. Gets me in early in a new trend
3. Keeps me in while trend develops
4. Gives colour coded entry signals 
5. Specific exit point 
6. Filters out bad signals
7. SL is small (10-15 pips) 
8. TP anywhere from 10-50 pips per trade. 
9. Few losing trades (if stick to rules), yet actively trading most of session.
10. Small Time frame, 5 mins

Visually back testing it produces 40- 100 pips per day (Late Asian and London Session) on GBPUSD, also trying it on EURUSD but so far prefer GU.

Today's trading on GBPUSD has produced around 88 pips (If taken all entries at correct time and stuck to the exit rules.

Please note it is NonLagMA not actually Hull indicators - If anyone knows the difference between the NonLag and Hull please post. I thought they were the same - apologies.


Chart Indicators and Settings: 

5 Minute Chart

20 Exponential Moving average - set to close

Three NonLagMA indicators in separate window, set to 15, 30 and 50

set Fixed Min to 1 and Fixed Max to 2 to straighten indicator

(note NonLag indicator now does not have yellow as it was confusing people)

Pivots, Today's Open, Yesterday's High and Low
(when I say Pivots in future I mean all pivots, mid pivots, Yest highs, lows, open etc)

I use 2 pivot indicators one has yesterday's high/low, today's open etc, and the Autopivot as it shows previous days Pivot lines but not highs or lows.

Candle Timer, Current Price (optional)

RULES

Trading times: late Asian and London session. 

SIGNAL (tells us direction bias)

1. NonLags all same colour (Red Short, Green Long)

Risky to enter on the signal, price has often moved away from 20 EMA and we get stopped out on on the retrace. 

ENTRY

2. Wait for price to return to EMA and close in direction of trade below EMA for Short and above EMA for Long

I prefer correct colour candle for the direction also also.

If we wait for the reverse to EMA, we can have smaller stop loss, higher probability, and less false entries.

3. Check NonLag's still right colour for the direction of the trade.

If they are not this is indication price trend may not be following through on signal. Sometimes just waiting for 1 or 2 candles we get confirmation.

4. Try not to enter if price too close to a Pivot point 

eg if we want to go long and price is 4 pips under daily pivot not a good entry point. 

EXITS

1. PIVOT POINT - take profit at the pivot point you are trading towards.

Price gets magnetised to these points,

(these can be Daily PP, R1,2,3, S1,2,3, Mid points, Open, yesterdays High, or Low) ALL these points tend to be either stop and reverse, stop and consolidate, or slow, reverse, or continue). Either way can be good exit point as price is often indecisive at these points.

If candles are strongly going towards the pivot point, or if NonLag's all stay right colour consistently, consider holding to see if price goes to next pivot point especially if its a mid pivot point. 

2. SIGNAL OTHER WAY (3 NonLags opposite colour to trade)

Consider exiting also if 2 of the 3 NonLag's are wrong color. 

Using this exit usually gets us out of a bad trade for either a couple of pips, break even or a few pips loss. 

Rarely should we watch it go to SL as there will usually have been an indication by the NonLag's that price was reversing. It is better to get out with a few pips loss and perhaps re-enter later.


STOP LOSS 

Approx 10 - 15 pips, use your own judgement some pairs may need 15 others may need only 10. If we get the entry right, price often moves quickly in our direction so stop loss not an issue. But if you try to trade in low volatility or ranging times you may find stops being tested more often. 

If we wait for the EMA retrace to enter, stops are hardly ever looked at, exits will then tend to be for a few pips or break even at worst if the trade doesn't follow through.

TAKE PROFIT 

2 or 3 pips from the pivot you are trading towards. 

If price misses by 5 pips or more it usually comes back for another go.

Alternate methods, take 50% at pivot, move to break even and let rest ride to next pivot.
by julie1585 
 
Hedge and Correlation Strategy
There are 5 Simple Steps to the new “Going Home Trading Method", formerly known as the “Hedging and Correlation” Method. We are still hedging and correlating, just that the new name will help us visualize what we are wanting to accomplish in this trading system, and we have modified our entries and exits after a very long time of practicing.

Most pairs that are positively correlated above 75% "live” below the 20-25% “difference” line on our one indicator that we use (see below—thanks to SMJones for developing it!). This is their home. Sometimes they will travel a little ways away from home (like up to 50%) and occasionally they will make a long trip (over 80%). But of course “there’s no place like home” so they eventually return to under 20%, where they live most of the time. We will open trades when the pairs are away on a trip, helping them to get back home, and we will profit on the way back.

There are only 5 steps to trading this successfully:

1. Go to http://www.mataf.net/en/tools/01-01-correlation and click on “Forex Correlation” under “Tools and Charts”. Put a check on all pairs.

2. Scroll down to “Daily” and note each pair with a positive correlation of 75% or greater (I am currently monitoring 25 pairs, which is very easy to do using the indicator mentioned below).

3. Open 5M charts on your MT4 platform for all the pairs selected in the steps above. Place the “Stochastic Different Pairs 1.4b” indicator on each of the charts.

4.
When a 5M bar (candle, whatever) closes above 80% differential sell the pair that is high, buy the pair that is low.

5. Close at 50%, or lower, depending on your risk tolerance.

This particular method is a short term strategy that has you in and out quickly.

Benefits:

1. No monitoring charts needed. You can set the “Stochastic Different Pairs 1b” to alert you via pop-up on the computer, or email to your cell phone.

2. “Built-in” stop-loss. This means that since we exit at 50% we are out with either a profit or a loss, therefore we do not need to put stop losses on with our trades. We will simply close out when the difference reaches 50%.

3. “Built-in” trend/sideways moving market protection. When nothing much is happening the “difference” percentage drops below 20 and we do nothing.

4. Numerous opportunities to trade throughout the day. You can trade this method anytime of the day or night. No more “first hour of the session only”, though there certainly is more activity during “session” times.

This method would no doubt work for longer time frames as well, and in this thread you can feel free to test different timeframes, different entry/exit criteria, different anything. It would be good if you were to report your findings (even trading negatively correlated pairs, if you have a strong constitution). There are also EAs developed for this method.

Enjoy!

Dreamliner
 
The art of Trading MAs

By  endroute

I have always loved MAs for their simplicity, I started using them when I first started trading with a good deal of succes but then migrated to other approaches over time because I had a hard time filtering out the bad crosses - that would be those crosses where you are only going to make a few pips or loose a few. If people want an approach that is easy to use and not a lot of smoke and mirrors here it is, if you don't like it don't trade it, if you have snide comments I don't want to hear them, if you want to contribute please do so. I would also expect that everyone be respectful of one another at least on this thread.

The focus of this thread is to teach a pretty simple method of trading MA's. The setups are pretty simple I use a 5 and 13 EMA and the COG indicator. I use the COG indicator to filter out the bad EMA crosses.

I am primarily a technical intraday trader and trade hourly charts, but it the trade looks promissing I may hang around for a few days. I actively trade 9 pairs so there are always at least 3-4 good setups a day which can result in a few hundred pips each day. I do not trade around major news events and I tend to pay attention to my trades. I typically do not set stop losses unless I am going to be away for a while, if I do I only set them at 20 - 50 pips depending on the pair I am trading, gbp/jpy gets 50 the rest 20. I don't want to hear all the crap about setting stops etc etc etc, I think stops are a good thing but if you are picking your entries well and paying some attention to your trades you save yourself a lot of money. This approach works on any timeframe from 5 min to daily. To answer the inevitable question of why don't I trade this daily or weekly the hourly charts best fits my personality, you have to remember trading is more about the person than the system in my opinion.

My money management system is as follows I only trade what I am willing to loose, I purposely keep my account balance low so that I am not tempted to do stupid things and I have fun with it. Trading is something I truely enjoy, for those of you that are just in this to make a quick buck no system will help you, you have to treat this like a business and it helps if you love what you do. If I loose a few hundred bucks on a trade big deal, you loose a few and win a lot.

The Setups are as follows:

Buy:
Bar closes below the bottom Green line on the COG followed by the 5/13 EMA cross. You can close the trade at the next EMA cross or use just wait for price to move to the opposite side of the COG indicator

Sell:
Bar closes Above the Top Green line on the COG followed by the 5/13 EMA cross. You can close the trade at the next EMA cross or use just wait for price to move to the opposite side of the COG indicator.

 jb_center_of_gravity

 

 
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