Recent content by HolyGrail

The tightness of your stop loss will influence your win rate and also how much you will win when right. Assuming, say 1% of a trading account is risked per trade, using a tight stop will enable a greater trade size (£/p) – hence a larger value when right, although you may be right less often...

I think post #2 on the link below should help you - http://www.trade2win.com/boards/trading-software/214028-tradingview.html#post2716338

The problem would have been caused by the MACD settings. You advised you used the standard "26, 12 and 9" settings. The actual standard settings are "12, 26, 9" - hence what you have had is the transpose of the standard MACD as the order of the two EMA setting determine the positivity or...

As for spread, looking at the three stocks in your list, they appear to have a 1 cent spread. So if you buy at $1.86 you need it to move 1.5 cent in order for it to make you 1 cent. It only needs to move 0.5 cent to put you down 1 cent - so your system needs a significant edge. Why I'm...

If scalping for the odd cent then the spread becomes very significant. You show just one losing trade - what is your stop loss rule?

I attended such a free event in Leeds by Knowledge to Action (Greg Secker's company) back in 2008 at the start of my trading journey. As it was at the beginning of my interest in trading it was of some use. The event is basically a sales pitch for a future course - I however decided not to...

I just wish to confirm that I am NOT for sale!

Excuse me!