Recent content by skint-international

Agree, Virtual box is great, just don't have a windose disk at home. Seems to run ok under wine though.

Just got MT4 running on Ubuntu using this: Get Metatrader 4 working under Linux! - Forex Trading | MetaTrader Indicators and Expert Advisors

Next plan is to write a number of back tests of various combinations of indicators etc. run them over historic EOD data and see which combos perform the best. Then write screeners with the winners to scan the major pairs on a daily basis to look for trading opportunities.

Spent the day studying the ProRealTime back testing and ProScreener modules. Assume most people already know of it, but if not ProRealTime is a very powerful charting package, which is free with end of day data. ProRealTime : Real Time Technical Analysis Software It's written in...

Hi Folks, Any traders out there using Linux? Just wondered what software packages people prefer as I'm looking into the different options. I mainly trade Forex at the moment, still using a demo account as I'm pretty new to it all. Currently using ProRealTime for charts and Oanda for a...

Got stopped out again on that one. Staying out of the market for a few days and focusing on study and strategy. Looking at using a combination of candlestick patterns, support and resistance and fib retracements. Any book/article recommendations on this subject welcomed, current reading...

Trading this pin bar reversal on the EUR/USD. Seems to be backed up by fundamentals as there's a lot of bad news coming out about the Euro bailout. Disagreements between France and Germany on the bail out plan. Short Order placed at 1.37040, stop placed at 1.38680, TP placed at 1.33900...

Need to revise my strategy. I've mainly been trading breakouts but have just been getting small gains or losses due to false breakouts or corrections. Plan to develop the strategy to try and deal with this, and also look into pin bar reversals.

Placed a limit order to buy the Euro/GBP, just above resistance at 0.87920 hoping to pick up on a breakout. Currently experimenting with different stops/take profit orders. For this one have placed the stop around the previous day's high around 10 pips below the limit order. I've also placed...

Yesterday the sell order kicked in and was doing well mid-day, however got home and the Euro was moving up, moved the stop to ensure a break even but got stopped out. Didn't lose anything though which is good, but if I'd used a take profit or trailing stop from the start might have made...

Hi GeoFract, Thanks for the feedback, yes it was the pin bar that I went for on that trade. I'll take a look at the settings on my charting software and change the settings, thanks for the tip! I don't use MetaTrader at the moment as I run Linux rather than windows, however people seem to...

Trying the same strategy, placing a buy order just above resistance and a sell order just below support on the EUR/USD

The EUR/USD rose yesterday and activated my buy order at 1.37234. Trailing stop closed out the order at a around £4.50 profit, could have been bigger but I wanted to minimise risk due to the volatility.

Still waiting to see what will happen with EUR/USD. Looking for techniques to add to my trading arsenal, planning to study Fibonacci retracements and stochastic indicators next.

Euro/USD touched resistance yesterday. Feel it could go up or down today so I'm experimenting with a buy and sell limit order. I've placed the buy order just above the resistance level of yesterday and the sell limit just below a recent support level.