Whatever you do when you start your journey in trading will be very important as it will largely determine the amount of time it will take for you to achieve success. When most people start trading they fall into a “marketing black hole” which drives them into a wasting cycle that generally ends up with […]
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February 2011
October 2010
September 2010
- Are You Backtesting Correctly ? : Six Common Technical Mistake That Will Make Your Simulations Useless
- Are You Up for a Challenge ? A Likely Daily Long Term Profitable System That Takes 5 Minutes a Day to Trade. Part Two -System Performance
- Elegant Automated Trading Systems : A Key to Success in Mechanical Trading
- Confused by Your Charts ? How About Trying a Simple Line Chart for Trading ?
- Five Steps to Build a Forex Trading Plan : What Every Trader Should Now
August 2010
- Preserving Your Capital : Five Signals You are Taking Too Much Risk with Your Forex Trading
- It’s Really Much More than Staring at the Screen : Become a Trader the Active Way
- Three Way (Triangular) Arbitrage in Forex : Does it Work ?
- Yes, You ARE Looking for the Holy Grail : A Message for People New to Trading
- Six Steps to Become a Successful Forex Trader : A Short Guide for the Inexperienced Trader
- To Trade or Not to Trade : A Little Bit About Friday Trading
- Trading the Noodle Soup : Discovering the Power of Guppy MA trading
- Experience, Mathematics and Discretionary Trading : Why a Mentor is Vital When Doing Manual Trading
- To Look or Not to Look ? : Setting and Forgetting in Automated Trading.
- Why People Do Not Take Advice : Five Reasons Why Learning From Others is SO Hard in Forex Trading
- Volume Based Forex Systems. Can it be Done ?
- Liquidity in Forex, Part No.2 : Analyzing the Liquidity of Different Pairs
- Liquidity in Forex, Part No.1 : What it Means and Why it is Important
July 2010
- The Dangerous Illusions of Short Term Profits in Forex Trading : An Obstacle Towards Long Term Success
- Why Catastrophic Losses in Forex are Always Possible : A Look at the Forex Worst-Case Scenario
- Five Automated Trading Myths : Clearing Up Some General Misconceptions
- The Greatest Advantage of Automated Trading, at Least for Me !
- Does Hedging (on the same currency pair) Really Exist ? A Look at Position Holding in Forex Trading
- The Daily Time Frame : Five Reason to Love This Time Chart
- Staying Single : How to Avoid Falling in Love with Trades
- When the Expected Draw Downs Come – Dealing With Loses When you Live from Trading
June 2010
- Targetting the JPY Crosses : Why it is so Hard to Develop Long Term Profitable Systems for These Instruments
- Five Common Mistakes in System Optimization
- Trading Reality and Automated Trading : Realistic Profit Expectations, Looking at the Barclay Currency Traders Index
- The Three Commandments of the Successful Forex System Trader
- My Currency Trader Magazine June Article, Check it Out !
- The Indicator Series : Understanding Bollinger Bands
May 2010
- Some Trading Advice : Trade What you See
- Protecting Your Account Against Inflation – A Concern For Long Term Forex Investors
April 2010
- Trading or Gaming ?
- Mathematical Expectancy… A Basic Powerful Concept in System Design and Development
- The Road to Financial Freedom Series… Part No.4 – The Beginning of My Experience
- Messing with an Expert Advisor… Five Reasons Why you Should NOT Intervene
- The Indicator Series : The ADX, beyond a trend/range filter
- Technical Indicators : What They Tell You and What They Don’t
March 2010
- Reversing Strategies… It Almost Never Works !
- Support and Resistance, Predictable A Priori ?
- Calculating Support and Resistance, My First Solution
- Defining Support & Resistance Levels Mathematically, A True Challenge for Automated Systems
- Complexity Vs Understanding… The Battle in Automated Trading
- Volume in Forex… Does it Mean Anything ?
- Carrying Trades in Forex : Trading For Interest
- Ten Reason why using Scalping systems is NOT a Good Idea
- Profiting in the Long Run… How Compounding Builds Wealth in Forex (taxes included !)
February 2010
- Dollar Cost Averaging in Forex Trading… Is this a Sound Approach ?
- Profits for Today or Profits for a Lifetime… Think Differently
- Indicators or No Indicators, What is Better ?
- The Indicator Series : The Momentum Indicator
- Trader Psychology : Being a Loser... Knowing How to Deal with Losing Periods
- Plan Your Trade… Trade Your Plan
- Confidence Vs Faith
January 2010
- Trading Psychology... The Need for Confirmation a Trader's Curse
- Trading S&R , a Guide to my Trading Methodology
- The TradingBuddy, an EA to Assist Manual Trading Methodologies
- The Road To Financial Freedom… Part No.2…Is this Right for You ?
- The Testing Time Problem… For How Long Should I Demo Test ?
- The Indicators Series : The MACD, the Market’s Speedometer
- Trading the Full Turtle System… The Ayotl Trading System
- The Forex Robot World Cup... Don't Fall for This !!
- Trading Gaps in Forex... Is there even an Inefficiency Present ?
December 2009
- Filtering Everything… A Wrong Approach Towards System Design
- The Break-even Dilemma
- Jumping the Gun… The Fear of Being Left Out : a Post on Manual Trading Psychology
- Lessons in Trading Psychology... Removing Intuition
- On the Problems Of Automated Trading System Design… Why a Broader Vision is Necessary
- Manual Trading With S&R... Some Pointers for Manual Traders
- Can You Figure Out the Chaos ? The Problems of Neural Networks in Trading...
- December is Here... :-)
November 2009
- Trading like a Couple, Correlation in Trading.
- The Dynamics of Change, Understanding the Spread
- My Sorry Excuse for a Trading Journal...
- My Experience Teaching the Trade... Some Initial Perceptions
- Forex Trading... Is this really for you ?
- Deepest Pocket Wins … Argumenting for Once and for ALL why Martingales CANNOT be traded Profitably in the Long Term
- Measuring System Vulnerability : The Market Exposure Index
- Forexhelp.com, Helping You With Your Daily Trading
- Stopping Your Loses in Trading... Why you Need a Trading Journal.
- Indicator Series : The Fractal Indicator
- Trading on the Edge of the Charts...Why Visual Backtesting Does Not Work
October 2009
- Support and Resistance Trading... Starting a Journal...
- Backtesting with 90% quality and Getting it Right… A Video Tutorial
- Greed Trading Towards a Wipeout… A Review about Grid Trading Systems
- Testing without Analisys, the Dangerous Ways of Independent Testing
- Forex Strategies : Trading Dynamically for Success, a Trading Strategy for Successful Manual Trading
- Why Does Everyone Want a Scalping Strategy ?
- The Asian Session and Market Efficiency
- Money Management. The most important, most neglected aspect of automated trading.
- The True Cost of Automated System Trading... The REAL minimum trading capital
- Can Ranging Markets be Exploited with an EA ?
September 2009
- You don't have anything to lose... What a fallacy !
- The Indicator Series… The Stochastic Oscillator
- Why your losing so much money… Characteristics of most people who buy an EA
August 2009
- The Indicator Series… The Moving Averages
- The indicator series… Going back to the basics !
- Backtesting and getting it right ! How to correctly backtest an MT4 expert advisor.
July 2009
June 2009
- Commercial Experts, Stealing from the Free Zone ?
- The God’s Gift ATR, Turning a Good EA into a bad one !
- Trading more or trading less ?
- So... What is your edge in forex trading ?
- Testing Every Expert Advisor, The WRONG Strategy !
May 2009
- Forex Expert Advisor Programming/Knowledge Course
- The Vicious Cycle of Expert Advisor Testing
- Living From Automated Trading System - How Much Money do you Need ?
- Expert Advisor Piracy, It Will Cost you Money
- Short verus Long Term Profit Expectations : Why Expert Advisors are So Deceitful
April 2009
- Forex Trading, The Hardest Easy Money You Will Ever Make
- Constant Volume Charts (Tick Charts) Using Metatrader 4
- Why Scalping and Scalpers Do NOT Work
- The Effect of Spreads on Expert Advisors
- Simple Moving Average Crosses as Profitable Trading Systems
- Trusting An Automated Trading System
- The 4 Week Breakout Strategy EA, a Very Simple Profitable Trading System
- Expert Advisor Seller Responsability the H.S.R Criteria
- Why Forex Forums Cannot be Trusted
March 2009
- Tick Volume Charts, The Story They Never Told You !
- Why You Should Move Away From Metatrader 4
- If We All Used The Same Forex EA ...
- Forex Automated Trading : Using Common Sense
- Why Trading With Expert Advisors Requires More Education Than Trading Manually
- The Risk to Reward Ratio, Randomness vs Logical Thinking
February 2009
- Linear Equity Growth, Which one is Good, and Which one is NOT
- Don't Trade Alone ! - Making Profits in the Forex Market
- Better Expert Advisors : Volatility Adjusted Take Profit and Stop Loss Values
- Coin Tossing in the Forex Market, Random Trading for Learning
November 2008
October 2008
- Forex Money Managment Strategies, the Difference Between Success and Failure
- Trading Forex, It's all about the Exits !
September 2008
- Forex automated trading : Why you need a VPS !
- Why 95% of forex traders fail and you are one of them !