Trading Order Out of Chaos
It’s useful to be able to add a trailing stop to your trades. Given I never got my head around the MT4 functionality I wrote this small EA, which does the job. Place it on top of the currency chart and give in the number of pips by which it should trail your trades. You need to put it on currency charts for which you have trades. So if you have USDJPY trades put the EA on an USDJPY chart. This EA will not trail stops for trades that have a non-zero magic number. So if you have trad…
A favorite investment technique that has been publicized widely is trend-following. Everybody has heard of the Turtle Traders, a group of novices trained by Richard Dennis in the art of channel-breakouts, a system developed decades earlier by Richard Donchian. In this article we will look at the current performance of trend-following in the Western futures markets, and see if we can’t find better performance in other markets. As previous mentor of mine always said: it’s not so much ab…