FYI for anyone that needs to use stop losses - the ATR distance used in the test is unrealistically close. I use ATR 1.5 past the low or high whichever places it furthers, under the furthest of the last couple of candles. Position size accordingly. I trade futures, stop loss prevents the rare catastrophic wipeouts. The lowered performance is offset by trading multiple instruments.
VITAL QUESTION IS--If trader was trading forex pair to hold for average duration of 3--5 days what time frame should be used for TREND DIRECTION?--IS IT 4 H CHART? Traders biggest enemy is trend flipping on A dime(e.g. 1H/lower times frame trend).Trend on 4H chart may be the best trend guide for majority of forex traders.. By the time trader confirms that trend on daily chart is up, market has already gone up about 5-7 days & if you ask supercomputer for the mathematical odds, computer tells you that odds are negative right from the start.Trend based on the last 10--15,four H candles has enough big players/juice/force behind it so that it would not flip on A dime, so trader has decent chance to make something without buying overpriced asset to lose again. Your wisdom/expariences please?
I’m having trouble following the two strategies. First it seems you are buying to the long side. One strategy is you only buy when market pulls back , and the other is you only buy when there is a gap down?
Not sure if I missed it, but if you are not using stop losses, how are you determining your max risk per trade and / or exiting the trade when it runs against you?
For example: 50% allocation per strategy. That 50% could also be split on multiple positions. On exits you could use time based exits or some logical conditions like 5 bar high.
you dont you need money to trade like this trading like this is trading with the market not with your account you get out when the market wants you out
Even if you are not trading mean reversion, you are better off without any fixed stop loss. Timed and/or technical-based stops are much better. Tests can be much faster when you are not taking intra-bar movements into account (that's an added benefit).
Your broker doesn't care if you stop loss or not For f o r e x only I never use stop-loss I have a mental stop loss but for futures you really should have stopped losses in place with a bracket trade
Or I'm missing something or this has not too much sense. I mean, all this sound like an open position strategy to me, and those strategies are too much risky. The stop loss is "just" a safety, so if you implement "those other ways to manage the risks" (¿?) you can still set a SL, so another layer of safety. The point is that setting a stop loss do not mean that your profit is going to be lower than using "30 different risk management methods". That's a bit of a false statement in my undertanding of all this trading thing. Trading with open positions is maybe the most ¿can I say stupid? ways to lose money and only really big bags with huge experience can deal with such agressive strategies. And trading low volatility assets ¿?.. because I can imaging trading some stocks, gold or crypto, using no SL, and oh boy.... And I repeat; maybe I'm missing something.
@@CriticalTrading thanks for your answer! So you trade 2 ETFs? It would be possible to trade even more markets or sectors? Did you tried it in international markets?
WHO CARES ABOUT STOCKS? PLEASE TALK about FOREX TRADING AND SELLING STOP LOSS HUNTING STRATEGIES PLEASE. TALK ABOUT FOREX TRADING SELLING/SHORT BOSS! AND TALK in detail please....MAKE INNOVATIVE VIDEOS ALSO, DONT MAKE WHICH WE ALREADY KNOW AND DONT CLAIM MEGALOMANIAC EARNINGS Which sound very Fake, I think You people make more money on youtube than your Own Trading....lol....I have seen so many videos which claim success but they are all tailor made examples,,,,, TALK ABOUT FOREX SELLING STRATEGY WITH RESPECT TO STOP LOSS HUNTING....
