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I decided to give it a shot with zulu trade. This wasn't an overnight decision. I have been thinking about it for some time. Basically zulu trade offers what I am looking for. I don't have time to watch the charts for trading opportunities neither do I have time to watch and follow the market to close any open position. Another option could be to trade on a higher time frame like the day chart

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When I opened a demo account my first idea was to add zulutrade's best signal providers. Zulutrade gives every signal provider a rating according their performance. So can I be any easier. I add their best signal providers and let it run..... Well I soon found out that it wasn't a good idea at all. Altough their high rated signal providers had been profitable for months they sure didn't seem to

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To be able to further test zulutrade I opened a demo account. Opening a demo account is very easy. They have a sign up page and after filling in some personal information I was ready to go. When you open a demo account it is always important to use the settings that you would use if you would open a live account. I my case if and I say if I would open a live account I would open a real small

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Zulutrade is a company that have been founded in 2006. Since then they have been offering a service that permits traders to trade using the signals of somebody else. In their terminology somebody that offers signals is called a signal provider or SP. They are not the only one offering this kind of service. Remember when we wrote about Tradency... Well it is the same thing. What makes Zulutrade

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Whselfinvest has send a letter to all its clients informing they will keep on offering a version of WHS Prostation (Dealbook) with Chart Studio. Apparently they have a great number of clients who actively use Chart Studio. This comes as a total surprise and is greatly appreciated by its customers. Besides offering a version with Chart Studio the will also offer the latest version. For those who

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As we know almost every day data comes out. Some of these data releases can have a big impact on certain pairs. Before trying to trade the release of any data you better prepare yourself. Because trading a news release can be very profitable but can be disastrous if unprepared. How can you be ready? First of all have a look at the calender and decide which news releases you will be trading. Not

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A while ago we started a poll on this blog. For a few months we asked visitors if they have found a profitable CTL strategy. Lets have a look at the results. 43 % did not find a profitable strategy23 % is close to having found one12 % has one but with small profits14 % has one with good profits For the 43% that hasn't found any profitable strategy yet: Well it all depends how long you have been

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This strategy has been written by one of our readers. First of all i want to thank SGarrison251 for sharing his strategy and for explaining it in detail...... CTL Programmer asked me to introduce myself which is to say there is nothing really to introduce. I have been trading Forex for approximately 3 years after a friend introduced me to it during a stocks discussion. Over the last

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Have you ever dreamed of having a profitable expert advisor for MetaTrader? But are you missing the programming skills to write one? Well there is a solution. There are a lot of tools and programs for making such an expert advisor. Some of them you need to buy, for other you need to pay a monthly fee. But there are also some that are totally free. Lets help you get started using such a free

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Moving averages are indicators that are used to see in which direction the market is going. They can be very useful when the market volatility is very high. They filter out all the noise and tell us exactly what we need to know. Is the market going up or down? The only problem with moving averages is that they lag and they can lag a lot if the period used is very

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The new CTL forum that has been created by JM hasn't been accessible for a while now. It is sad to see it disappear again. Each time valuable information is lost. Of course CTL as an language will become obsolete because the new versions of dealbook don't support chart studio any more. But there are still people using it and some will want to translate their CTL strategy into MT4 MQL. Anyway

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There are a lot of tools for testing forex strategies. One of the greatest tool online is forex strategy builder. It is ideal to make some quick test to see if the basics of a specific strategy are good enough for building a profitable strategy. Forex strategy builder can also generate strategies for you. Now don't get to excited. It will not generate a holy grail strategy for you. But some of

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Sometimes your hear people say that trading is easy. You buy when the prices are going up and you sell when the prices are going down. Well if that is true why do so many traders fail? Is the trend not your friend as they say? Of course trend is your friend but do you know what the trend is? "The trend is your friend if you know him well" How do you know if you are trading with the trend? Some

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I have been running a demo account on Tradency (Alphari Systematic) for a couple of days. The platform made some trades that make me think twice before considering going live with Tradency. I limited myself with a 1000 € demo account. Maybe small but i want to see what would happen. I added the following strategies. Maybe a lot but i changed the position size to 10.000 for all

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This post will show how you can make an extremely simple MT4 Expert Advisor (EA). So the purpose is not to make a strategy that is profitable. No the purpose is to make something as simple as possible so we will be able to understand the code. I advice everybody that wants to learn to make his own EA in MT4 MQL to start with basic and very simple code. We are going to make a simple moving

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Are you tired looking for that “holy grail” strategy? Are you fed up writing one strategy after another? If yes maybe Tradency is what you have been looking for. Read further and judge yourself if it is what you are looking for. Tradency is not new. It has been around from 2005. The idea behind Tradency is to mirror the buy and sell signals of real traders. Strategy developers all over the world

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Well It sure looks like that. The first sign that things where not running as they should was when GFT decided to delete the old forum. Remember that post http://ctltrading.blogspot.com/2010/12/ctl-chart-studio-forum-deleted.html. I remember that in the end their was hardly any activity on that forum left. But that was no surprise because GFT didn't really bother helping people with their coding.

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First of all you have to ask yourself if you need a server. If you are at home all day long you probably don't need it. But some of us traders need to get to work and we all know that letting a strategy run at home isn't exactly the safest thing to do. What can go wrong? Well the platform can lose its internet connection. In worst case scenario you got an open position without any stop. Of course

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The Trix indicator was invented by Jack Hutson. If you put both the Trix and a classic exponential moving average on a chart you will see that the Trix is actually like the EMA but a lot smoother.  In chart studio we see how the Trix is calculated : triple := ema(ema(ema(price, period), period), period); If you see the formula it is clear why they also call it the triple exponential moving

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Sometimes an indicator isn't in the list of indicators in dealbook. In some cases you can add the indicator. For that open chart studio. Make sure you make the system workspace visible. If not select view in the top menu and select user workspace. Double click on the indicator you are missing. The code will appear on the right. Next click on the install button. If you have an error

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Arrays are used to store items of the same type. The type of an element can be integer, number, bool and so on....Arrays are especially beneficial when you need to store a large amount of data. Before you can use an array you need to declare it. The array can be global or local. The information stored in a global array is kept when the strategy runs from 1 candle to another. If you use a local

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The result of the small poll we had on this blog totally surprised me. We had 21 votes with the following result: What time frame do you prefer for a strategy to run? 33% prefers the 5 min chart19% prefers the 15 min chart14% prefers the 30 min chart33% prefers the 1 chart chart Why does this surprise me? Well there are some arguments for the small time frames. First of all the information that

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Candlestick charts are one of the most used charts in technical analysis. The candles on a candlestick chart have a body and a upper and lower shadow. The upper and lower shadow are also called the upper and lower wick of the candle.  Each candle is a representation of a battle that have been taking place. A battle between buyers and sellers. The shape of the candle shows how the battle has

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Best way to explain this is to take a tiny chart. See below a chart with only 6 candles.  On the left side you see a tiny EU chart. Each candle or bar represent 1 hour of price movement. If you right click on the chart (or press CTRL-E) you can export the data behind this chart. On the right you see the exported data for this tiny chart. The data in each column is a SERIE of data.

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Well first of all you have to create a file. And you should create it in a directory where you have administrator rights. Go to your directory my documents. Next create a text file in that directory. For example C:\Users\user\Documents\testfile.txt A small strategy will show exactly how you can write something to that file. strategy sample_ema_printfile; input period = 10, lots = 1;

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