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is it possible to get a stop loss to trail a moving average? would be quite useful for longer term trades to lock profit in, its not like you can watch it 24/7 and trailing stop losses are evil

Cheers very much RS that info is very useful. I do have another more general question and that is how do you keep interested while your waiting for setups? Do you set a lot of alerts so that when what your waiting to happen happens you are made aware and can do whatever else in the mean time...

rollingstone thanks very much for your help yet again your a star x Few more questions, first is it possible to display price where your mouse is hovering (or something like that) as its not easy to work out where the price is on chart when setting stops etc. The only other idea ive got is...

thats not the problem, not quite sure what is tho... also dans candles seem to show more volatility but im not sure how thats possible if they both use the same candle :-S could someone explain how the heiken ashi candle works... all i know is it approximates the 5CCI zero line, but I'm not...

on mine the pimps candles are set to 4 thickness so basically blur together, but even when i put them to 2 thickness and change the colours to the same as Dans they dont have the same definition (still a bit rough round the edges) ... they are using the same heiken ashi from the pack....

thanks for the input everyone. whatever i do to pimps candles i can't make them look as nice and defined as dan's!! dan please share the secret of your lovely well-defined candles?

well that eurusd this morning was buying into the 4hr 50, but perhaps the 20 is more important, will be interesting to see what people think...

cheers for the tips nicola. do you know how i edit the template directly to change the candles to a slightly slimmer one? they are looking a bit chubby on pimps template hence i'm using dans slimmer one. I've worked out how to do it to an individual chart but not the actual template itself...

Another question, I notice that for Dan's template as opposed to Zak's, Dan has only the immediate CCI's and signal on the 15m and 1hr timeframes, is this because you use the ma's as a guide to, for example, the 1hr and 4hr trend when trading the 15m? or does the strategy work a bit differently...

hi guys and girls. I've been reading through Zak's thread with great interest, the concepts and so on are very well explained. I'm up to about page 65... its a long thread but I'm enjoying the read and it feels like I'm gaining a very valuable education. I just wondered, about the action just...

but how deeply infected are we.... what proportion of banks and other institutions 'assets' are in potentially dodgy securities? Have the securities been properly assessed yet? Could it not be that as more defaults happen the more junk is uncovered and the more institutions with supposedly...

I watched the evan davis programme the other night about the banks and the current situation etc. In it he described securitisation and how it enabled banks to package their assets (ie mortgages etc) and sell them on, meaning they didn't have to worry about them. This ability to liquidate assets...

ok I think you are right in that I should be using demo trading and looking for some patterns myself... Although what you say about books almost makes me want to avoid them entirely as I had much the same feeling about Elder that it was leading me to look for something from the book rather than...

Thanks for that reply Tim. To be honest with Elder his strategies for the most part seemed sensible, but it was obvious from the current volatility that they weren't going to get me far, or at the very least I didn't feel comfortable trying to apply them. So perhaps it was a decision to stay...

I have just started out with my reading and having read 'come into my trading room' and not being overly impressed with Elders system (or more the idea of sticking to one system), I decided to look a bit deeper and am reading TA of the financial markets by Murphy. This is due to the decision...