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How to Trade the Start of the Year: Guide to Stress-Free Positioning

Most people are familiar with the term ORB (open range breakout). It was popularized by Toby Crabel’s book “Day Trading with Short Term Price Patterns and Opening Range Breakout”, as well as the The Logical Trader: Applying a Method to the Madness (Wiley Trading) by Mark Fisher. ORB uses the price range set at the […]

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Market Reaction to NFPs on 8th January 2016

Following on in the series of Market Dynamics the NFPs presented a great opportunity to take a closer look at what happens during important news events. I’ve learned my lesson by now: don’t trade during news events. And this is especially true of stop orders in these situations. Price will just hop straight through. When […]

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This XLS accompanies my guest article on RectitudeMarket.com describing the performance of short option strategies on EURUSD. It includes the relevant formulas and data so that you can replicate the results or apply them to your own option strategies.
Short EURUSD Option Backtest Spreadsheet
EURUSD tick data for the period 21st February 2016 to 26th February 2016. Zip file contains CSV files for each day. The format of the CSV files are: Local Time, Server Time, Server Time Milliseconds, Bid, Ask. The time resolution is in seconds. This means that there can be multiple quotes per second.
Tick Data EURUSD , 20160221 – 20160226, Broker1
EURUSD tick data for the period 20th March 2016 to 25th March 2016. Zip file contains CSV files for each day. The format of the CSV files are: Local Time, Server Time, Server Time Milliseconds, Bid, Ask. The time resolution is in seconds. This means that there can be multiple quotes per second.
Tick Data EURUSD, 20160320 - 20160325, Broker 1
Equities Mean Reversion
Equities mean-reversion works right now. And as part of Building Consistently Profitable Trading Systems it forms a key component. In this article we’ll present the final version of the mean-reversion system to form part of the trading toolbox, and the final portfolio. It’s the Larry Connor’s RSI2 strategy.  And it’s based on the two concepts we covered in Equities and Their Mean Reversion Habits:
  • Looking for a series of down days
  • Looking for reversion towards a short dated movi…
Equities Mean Reversion
High Frequency trading has become both the poster-boy and the scapegoat over the last couple of years in trading circles. It’s been seen as a sure-fire way of making money, as well as a sneaky way the flash-boys tax all the other participants in the market. In this article I want to cover some of the basics of High-Frequency Trading, as well as how it applies to trading from your “Living Room.” An example of such trading from your own private realm is the following P&L chart showing profits i…
High-Frequency Trading from your Living Room
I understand how tedious it can be to have to manually write all the trades out. And MT4 is the worst at making your trade history accessible. This script will produce a csv file of your entire account history. It will enable you to ask some pertinent questions and work out relevant stats. You’ll find details on calculating the right trade-stats in the blog posts on this site. The output is stored in the C:\Users\XXX\AppData\Roaming\MetaQuotes\Terminal\<Funny Hex Number>\MQL4\Files dire…
MT4 TradeLog Extractor
This is the second article in the series of trading the Bullish and Bearish Engulfing candle stick patterns. Following on from Part I, we will actually perform some backtests using the results we found in Part I. In Part I, we split up the analysis for long and short trades separately. Here we will keep to this approach. The justification is that there need be no symmetry between the long & short approach. This is especially true for equity systems, where bear markets have distinct dynamics f…
Bullish & Bearish Engulfing Bars (Part II)
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EURUSD tick data for the period 24th January 2016 to 29th January 2016. Zip file contains CSV files for each day. The format of the CSV files are: Local Time, Server Time, Server Time Milliseconds, Bid, Ask. The time resolution is in seconds. This means that there can be multiple quotes per second.
Tick Data EURUSD , 20160124 – 20160129, Broker1