Hello.

I hadn't ever heard of ForEx until two weeks ago. I've now set up a couple of trading stations (including apparently 3 copies of MT4. Can't have too much of a good thing, I guess ) and I have some insane demo account money to burn.
I've also bought currency trading for dummies along with technical analysis to dummies. Those names are a tight match for me personally.

So I've been spending a few evenings so far attempting to compose an EA that may always survive a egy tester encounter across different timelines and pairs, and even failing, unsurprisingly.

Well, no hurry. I will not play with real money until I have generated enough reproducible information to convince myself that I might not be wasting my time here.

Basically, I refuse to think in voodoo, therefore any indior I don't know, I will not use. My current EA functions purely with averages, and tries to discover localized trends as they begin and piggyback on the ride. I know why, although it really does a job so far.

Reading currency trading for dummies so far made it clear the market could possibly be 24/5, but not long are equivalent, therefore an EA worth a darn will most likely have to watch the clock and understand the anticipated volatility effect for a given pair, at least. Too bad I have no idea what to do with volatility changes that are predictable .

At this point, I am still not convinced this is not a giant sucker play, but the 2 books I've bought so far have cost me just as much as Civilization 4 so as a worst case, I can write it off as playing a fun make-believe game.

If that is okay, I'll keep posting updates on my ever-so-slightly decreasing ignorance amounts within this thread. A chart might even throw in every now and then to keep folks interested