Breakout Strategy

Gustav,

With your 4hr and 15m strategies do you still trade them on high impact news days, (like todays NFP)?

Mickey.

Not really I did look at the news and marked my trades but it was kind of not trending so only traded the AUDUSD for like 15 pips but I dont think it is good to trade these days and also witht eh long weekend coming since markets are kind of crazy.

Okay thanks for that.

A couple of other questions. If these have already been answered my apologies.

You say the timeframe you use is 7am - 9am is that currently Eastern Standard Time or Daylight Savings Time?

If you place your second vertical time line on the 9am 15 minute candle do you wait for it to close before deciding on the high and low points. In other words do you wait until 9.15am until deciding?

Thanks,

Mickey.

Yes I use 7 to 9am EST

And I normally just pick the high and low at 9am but if that last candle breaks the low or high then I make that the new high or low, but normally that last candle doesnt make the line so it would depend on the day. But I would not trade the 915 candle.

Also I am experimenting with trade 6am to 8am and maybe getting into the market earlier but I will post those results later next week.

Hope this helps

I see so what would you do in the winter keep it at EST or move it back an hour when the clocks go back?

Change the time, just make sure the GMT corresponds to 7am - 9am EST

Hey gustav taking a look at your four hour strategy looks pretty good, do you get stopped out alot with your 50 pip stop loss or does it prove to be sufficient enough. Also what is your win to loss ratio like. Thanks.

Well really depends what you want, if your are looking for the massive 300 pip gains then 50 SL is too small, but I am normally good with a 100 pip gain so its normally ok, unless its a fake spike and it reverses. I have lately be doing more of a 75 pip SL just to be safe.

What is your win to loss ratio like, say you take 10 trades how many would you win and how many would u lose. Am guessing its a system that wins about 70 to 80 percent of the time correct me if am wrong.

I havent really kept a nice record but I would say yes 70 to 80 percent if you jsut trade blindly but if you look at trades and the trend seems off and weird and you dont eneter I would say more like 90.

Do you trade this system with real money or are you still demoing for now. Also how long have you been trading it. Thanks for the great info.

Demo trading been a couple of months and live for a month

what broker are you with, also does it matter if you use a chart without the sunday candle or does it have to have the sunday candle. Thanks

I dont think it matters if it has the Sunday candle, I use IBFX

hey gustave, quick question. Lets say you get a sell signal but it fails and goes into the opposite direction, will you close out the sell order and take a buy order or just wait till next sunday for the next signal.

This looks like something that can be traded even with real money. Have tried this on many different currency pairs?

I assume that you’re all aware of this quite similar thread?

http://forums.babypips.com/free-forex-trading-systems/23601-sunday-breakout-strategy.html

It’s more or less the same Sunday candle breakout setup.

I am still confused with this strategy! Which one is to be set at between 7-9 am ET???
The 15 minute strategy or the 4H? And I assume it should be Monday and not Sunday as markets open 5pmET Sunday.
Clarify and be more precise, please
Thanks

Hello!

Which broker you use? What is the time of your broker?

I cannot locate the information on the tro tunnel on babypips. Can u help me locate it and also is there a meta trader file for it to download … Gonna get on your system tomorrow as it seems to be for me… thanks