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Well said, safety first and profit second...<br />
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Hi guys and gals,<br />
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<b>Intro</b><br />
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My first post here.<br />
I’m a veteran trader, with 10 years of experience in EA trading and about 100k hours of screentime under my belt.<br />
Using (amongst others) Life Changer EA during the last 4 years I have traded my main account from 5k up to 25k.<br />
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<b>General observations</b><br />
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Before going into details about the pairs, chart timeframe and other settings I have been using for the Life Changer EA, a couple of observations based on reading and re-reading the 110 pages of this thread.<br />
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<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Many 90% rule traders. If you don’t know what the 90% rule is in forex, Google it</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Many people posting in this thread lack the most basic education.<br />
They don’t seem to know what an average daily range is, don’t know how to calculate the pip value for a forex pair based on position size, don’t know margin requirements, etc. etc.<br />
One word of advice, “Babypips” has an excellent comprehensive free education. Go study.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Many traders have unrealistic expectations.<br />
Watch Lambo Raul videos on Youtube and you’ll see what I mean.Forex trading is a marathon, not a sprint.<br />
Folks expecting an ROI upwards of 5% per month will most likely blow their account.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Many traders are undercapitalized. You need serious money to make serious money.<br />
Alternatively, if you don’t have “serious money”, you will at least need to be very patient.<br />
There’s nothing wrong opening a 5 USD cent account, but don’t expect to turn that into a 100 USD (cent account) in a year…</li>
</ul><b>My Life Changer EA settings</b><br />
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Pairs: AUDCAD, AUDNZD, NZDCAD<br />
Why these pairs? Look at the pairs traded by similar grid expert advisors such as North East Way, Waka Waka, Hundred Eggs. The ”DNA” of these 3 pairs (daily range, swings, pullbacks) makes them very suitable for grid trading.<br />
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Timeframe: M30<br />
Not too quick (M15), not too slow (H1) for me.<br />
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Fixlot<br />
0.01 per 500 capital<br />
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Step: 40<br />
This represents (at the time of writing) approx. 80% of the daily range of the pairs I am trading<br />
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Takeprofit: 30<br />
This will give a profit factor between 2.30 and 2.50.<br />
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Multiplier: 1<br />
Anything above 1 is martingale (be it soft or hard martingale) and will blow up your account.<br />
It' s not a question of if, but WHEN it blows up. The only “right” way to using martingale and grid trading in general is by controlling the downside.<br />
That means using an equity stop/max drawdown of X%.<br />
Using a multiplier of 1 is a trading technique employed by some institutional traders. It’s also known as cost averaging.<br />
The advantage of cost averaging – as opposed to martingale - is that your account will be able to withstand much larger sustained movements.<br />
Using multiplier 1 and 1 microlot per 500 capital, by the time it opens the 8th trade in a grid the drawdown is 15%.<br />
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Stoploss: 280<br />
Why 280 pips? Simple. By the time the Life Changer EA opens the 8th trade in a grid, the first trade is 7 x 40 pips = 280 pips in drawdown. That means a 5-day sustained solid drop (or rise) at 100% of the ADR, without sufficient pullback to get out. By this time, I’m in a 15% drawdown, which I consider my max acceptable drawdown. So far (4-year period) the max number of trades in a grid I’ve had has been 6.<br />
Maybe there’ll be a day it gets to 8, which means I’ll incur a 15% loss of capital.<br />
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Trailstop: 10<br />
Trailstep: 1<br />
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Max pairtrades: 2<br />
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<b>ROI</b><br />
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These setting will yield an average of 3% per month.<br />
To give you an idea of compounding at 3% ROI per month:<br />
500 USD starting capital * (1.03 ^ 12) = USD 712 capital end of year 1<br />
500 USD starting capital * (1.03 ^ 24) = USD 1016 capital end of year 2<br />
Doubling your account in 2 years time isn't so bad, is it? Go talk to your bank manager, ask him what interest rate he'd offer you for a 2-year USD 500 depo...<br />
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There’s a myfxbook account (it's not my account), that has been running the Life Changer EA using exactly these settings and pairs for more than a year.<br />
Search for “life changer” in the systems section and you’ll find only 1 system running on an ICMarkets demo account <b>with a RoMaD of 10</b>. The user is “Tortellini”.<br />
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Trade safely!
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