In September 2018 I went live with my automatic trading system. I had designed a system that would take trades for me with real money on a live market. This was a real stretch for freedom for me. Would it be possible to trade hands-free and allow my (fairly simple) self-designed algorithm to make money [...]
We are about to enter week 4 of my project - day trading with a self-designed robot. I am so excited about the future of this automated trading system, I can't tell you! Whilst I have been live trading with this automatic system I am up 56 points so far. I have had just six [...]
Day trading using my own algorithm and automatic system - Week 3 Having been trading successfully for several years I spent several months designing a trading algorithm that would replicate the type of trades that I have been used to taking manually. Having come up with something approaching what I was looking for I backtested [...]
Week 2 of automated day trading on a self-designed system You can see in the chart above that since the first week of trading with my automated day trading system the system has performed well. We have had 10 green days out of a total of 16 trading days. You will also note that the [...]
Living the dream - let the algorithms do the work For the last few months I have been excitedly working on a number of automated trading systems, basically algorithms that allow a computer system to take my trades for me. The idea is that I provide the computer software, provided by my broker, with an [...]
Why do beginner traders lose? Well, one of the things that I noticed about top traders when I was studying them is that they decide conclusively what their system is and they stick to it no matter what. Do what the expert traders do Some top traders only trade one particular setup. This setup gives [...]
Are you ready to challenge yourself in the markets? Your introduction to trading - Learn to trade the markets. For over 160 years stock & commodity markets have been offering traders the opportunity to win or lose a fortune in an instant. Once the sole domain of the institutional traders and [...]
Learn how to trade forex markets with Anthony Beardsell in his new Ebook - EUR/USD and the Forex Markets - Trading the 5 minute timeframe. In this 162 page book, Anthony provides a system to use in trading forex on the 5 minute timeframe. The system focusses on reading price action, via trading candlesticks. In [...]
Throughout this series we have been identifying trades that provide a 2:1 reward to risk ratio. This type of reward to risk ratio on trades is a vital ingredient for beginner trades to ensure that they are able to start growing their accounts. Beginner traders especially will make mistakes. We all did it at some [...]
As we begin week 5 of reviews on trading breakouts and trend continuation on the EUR/USD - 5 minute chart we approach Christmas. Often trading volume lowers a little in the run up to Christmas. However the Forex markets almost always have sufficient volume and volatility to produce the type of trading opportunities that we [...]
