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Easy to use and very helpful in seeing where should be our stop and profit target - if it's real - by looking at the chart. You can also setup you past trading effectiveness to calculate the Profit Factor you would like to achieve. Your comments and questions are very welcome! Works with Tra...
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Bad Fills can be frustrating for traders as they are often executed as a worse price than expected (too high in buy positions or too low for sell positions). There are generally two situations where this might occur. First is during times of excessive market volatility. Low liquidity levels can m...
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One of my systems has historically returned, via hypothetical backtest, around 60%-80% per year (for the past 10 years) when tested with a wide stop loss. The return jumps into the 100%-120% annual range when the system forgoes the stop completely. A 10k account will grow to over 2.5 million dollars...
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The number one way new traders fail is in counting their trading profits, or the money that could be made on the trade before the trade is even placed. Pro traders know you should be focusing on how much they could lose on the trade. To succeed you must be able to accept the risks and apply mone...
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Drawdown vs. Loss What's the difference? Is it possible to know the difference before your stop is hit? If you can tell the difference, how do you do it? When do you decide that it's really a loss, and not drawdown? Is it better not to worry about whether it's drawdown or a loss? Should you j...
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Hi i am writing a code in nijatrader when I setup the stop loss I can only have a fixed stop loss price for example 10 ticks. However, what I want my stop loss to be is 2 candles prior low. instead of a fixed stop loss. for example. Ninjatrade enters a Long trade the stop loss should be 2 candl...
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I was actually making money swing/momentum trading - tho admittedly the market was very good in Sept which helped a lot. I was gaining much more than I was losing. I buy smallish lots (200 shares sometimes 300) and hold for anywhere from a day or two to a week or so. I always have a stop loss in pla...
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Hi, I'm just starting to learn Easy Language, yet am having problems with stop loss setting when testing strategies. Although the stop loss is set in the code, it seems it isn't always acted upon. Not sure what I'm doing wrong... any ideas most appreciated! Code sample: if Condit...
