Recent content by Bill Carson

These may be easier to read. If I'm wrong can someone please point out my error.

For some reason I pasted the screen shots to a word doc and now I've copied them to paint to get it into an uploadable format. Not as clear as I would like it but hopefully it can be read.

I took screenshots and have before and after pics. I'll upload them shortly.

That's what Oanda said.

Oanda, as you would understand, like to promote their competitive spreads and one of the tools they use is the historical spreads they display here http://fxtrade.oanda.com/why/spreads/recent And "In keeping with our value of transparency, OANDA publishes our spread data in an...

Not making money since I'm not trading. I have no intention of placing trades until I've nutted out my strategy, back tested and forward tested. Now, I haven't heard of the evolving R before. I've done a bit of poking around and will read up.

If the ratio is greater than 1:1 or 1:10 you can be making good money but not if your strike rate doesn't measure up.

It appears what I should have said is "open multiple charts for back testing". Anyway it looks like it can be done but I have to work it out.

I'd like to do some manual testing on the MT4 strategy tester. I'd like to look for setups on a daily chart and then take a look at the hourly chart. Is there a way to switch between the 2 while using the strategy tester?

I would like to have a risk/reward of 2:1 or better and that seems straight forward. However as soon as the trade starts to go into profit my risk/reward changes for the worse. For example. I have a trade with a 20 pip Stop and a 40 pip Target. Risk/reward is 2:1. The trade goes well and goes...

That sounds like good advice, give the weekend the boot. :thumbsup: I'd come to the same conclusion on cleaning it up in excel, should be pretty easy. Thanks for replying.

G'day all, I'm looking at trading EOD forex. I'm setting up my indicators and am looking at the EOD data in an excel application I am working on. I've signed up with EODData.com to get the EOD data but there is a fly in the ointment. Sometimes, but not always, they quote prices for saturday and...

Thanks guys for 2 very helpful answers. I haven't decided which way to go yet but now I know what to look at.

I'm interested in "end of day" trading the Fx which runs 24 hours a day. What I'm trying to work out is where should I mark the end of my day and how to set up the time zones on trading software. Is it best to mark it at: a. midnight in my time zone (gmt +11 hours) b. when the market closes in...

They don't have the Index spreadbetting here any more, their website says they discontinued it because of the success of the CFDs side of their business. I'll chase up the UK site and see what they say.