Trading Articles

A selection of great trading education articles covering all aspects of trading forex, commodities, crypto and stock indices.

Stock Index Hedge EA Strategy & EA Settings

Stock Index Hedge EA Strategy & EA Settings

Take a look at the stock index hedge strategy and the EA that auto trades the strategy in more detail. This is a variation on the opening range breakout strategy that only trades once per day or session.

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How To Do Aggressive Drawdown Control When Position Trading

How To Do Aggressive Drawdown Control When Position Trading

This is an extract from the live room where I was asked about aggressive drawdown control. At the time, AUDNZD was squeezing pretty hard, so it was a good time to look at ways to do aggressive DD control to help escape a trading position that is going against you. Position trading means you will at times get into bigger drawdown than you like and there are many ways to get out of it with aggressive drawdown control, so I cover how I do it and some live examples.

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16.7% Banked this week across all 4 main strategies with the MRA EA

16.7% Banked this week across all 4 main strategies with the MRA EA

Had a pretty decent week this week with the Market Reversal Alerts EA and the main strategies taught in the position trading bootcamp. Over 16% return across all 4 accounts with very little open drawdown on the main strategies. The hedging strategy is in a little drawdown at the moment but it’s always in drawdown of some sort due to the nature of heading meaning you always have some trades going the wrong way temporarily! The month so far (with more than 1 week to go still) is currently sitting at 64.16% cumulative total for the 4 accounts. Will it get to that magic 100%? Join me every day in the live rooms at 7:50am and 2:20pm UK time for analysis of new position trading setups and a look at the results every day.

Check out the EA here: https://themst.info/mraea

Watch the position trading bootcamp here: https://themst.info/bootcamp

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Market Reversal Alerts EA V4 and V4.1 Differences – Logic Change For Position Trading Strategies

Market Reversal Alerts EA V4 and V4.1 Differences – Logic Change For Position Trading Strategies

This video shows what’s new in version 4.1 of the EA. This update is purely a logic change and tweaks an issue found by some position/basket traders that were manually closing positions or letting the EA handle drawdown control. This update simply changes the way the EA stores the last traded level and lot size so it gets into additional positions more conservatively and will help with drawdown and manual closing.

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How To Turn A Losing Trade Into A Winner

How To Turn A Losing Trade Into A Winner

This is an extract from a live room session where we are talking about ways to exit position trades that have gone a little too far against our original idea. Basically, we’re turning a losing trade into a profitable trade with a strategically placed “big whale” trade, which can bank a big return.

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How To Survive a Squeeze While Trading Mean Reversion In A Trend

How To Survive a Squeeze While Trading Mean Reversion In A Trend

This is an extract from the live room where I was asked about the market reversal alerts EA and the strategies it trades (mean reversion trading strategies) and whether they would work in a trend. Mean reversion trading relies on the market’s natural ebb and flow being fairly rhythmic in nature and as long as this condition exists you can certainly trade mean reversion strategies. When position trading in a trend, however, you will occasionally get squeezed, meaning the market moves strongly against you for a period of time. In this video, we look at how to get out of those situations and still come out with a small profit or very small loss.

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How To Draw Support & Resistance | Simplest Way

How To Draw Support & Resistance | Simplest Way

People struggle with support and resistance levels and try to overcomplicate a very simple thing. They miss entries because they are not creating these areas, a zone’s price will test and try to get that perfect line. Support and resistance is NOT a straight line, it’s an area. In this video, you will learn how to make sure your entries are spot on and your stops are positions well enough, so you get a profit the majority of the time.

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The Ultimate Traders Risk:Reward Calculator Spreadsheet – You NEED This.

The Ultimate Traders Risk:Reward Calculator Spreadsheet – You NEED This.

This risk reward calculator spreadsheet will help you see what you need to achieve to hit your profit targets with whatever strategy you use when trading. You can see what happens when you have a winning or losing streak to help prepare yourself for what is likely to happen to your account as you trade any instrument or strategy.

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What Candlestick Propulsion Gaps Are | 1-2-3 Gaps | Wide Range Bars etc…

What Candlestick Propulsion Gaps Are | 1-2-3 Gaps | Wide Range Bars etc…

Propulsion gaps (that’s what I call them anyway!) are also known as 1-2-3 gaps, wide range bars, fair value gaps and all sorts of things. Basically they are a large move in the market caused by institutional buying or selling and traders need to pay attention to them. The original concept was defined by M.A. Perry, the owner of thestrategylab.com website, and his original concept has been used by many other traders over the years. This is the official definition of what a WRB (Wide Range Bar) actually is, according to him. Every trader should be aware of these awesome magnets that attract and repel price.

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How To Make More Money Trading: Why I Don’t Trade Gold

How To Make More Money Trading: Why I Don’t Trade Gold

This is an extract from a live room session talking about why I personally removed gold from my trading portfolio and how you can improve your performance by identifying what is making you losses. It’s a bit of a “joke” session and video but the message is real and something that helped improve my trading career. Remove the losses, your profits soar!

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How To Make Money Trading Symmetrical Triangle Breakouts

How To Make Money Trading Symmetrical Triangle Breakouts

A symmetrical triangle chart pattern represents a period of contraction & consolidation before the price is forced to break out to the upside or breakdown. They are very easy patterns to find and trade and work on everything you can trade including stocks, indices, crypto and forex. A breakdown from the lower trend line marks the start of a new bearish trend, while a breakout from the upper trend line indicates the start of a new bullish trend.

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How The Forex Market Moves & How To Measure Your Trading Success

How The Forex Market Moves & How To Measure Your Trading Success

Day one of the position trading bootcamp. This is a 5-day forex trading course designed to help you understand how to position trade and benefit from the natural ebb and flow of the foreign exchange markets. In this lesson, we look at the course overview and what we’ll be covering. We also kick off with a look at how to measure your success as a trader and why you should not use pips for that, or indeed for anything! Then we take a detailed look at how and why the market moves, who the main participants are and how we can take advantage of the natural ebb and flow of the forex markets.

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Multi Time Frame Trading Analysis, Elastic Band Theory & Trading Psychology

Multi Time Frame Trading Analysis, Elastic Band Theory & Trading Psychology

In this lesson, we look at multi time frame analysis and how it can help us to time entries based on the bigger picture. Using a higher time frame for our trade idea means the idea is generally better, as higher time frame signals are more accurate. We also cover elastic band theory, how the market expands and contracts when buyers and sellers enter the market and drive price based on exhaustion. Finally, we look at the difference between stop loss traders and position traders. How the psychology of trading with a stop loss causes most traders to fail and hop systems continuously.

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Top Trading Indicators To Use For Position Trading Strategies

Top Trading Indicators To Use For Position Trading Strategies

In this lesson we look at indicators, nothing but indicators (and a little sneak peek at strategy!). I go through all the indicators that make up my strategy and explain why I use them, how they work and ways to put them to good use and extract money as a position trader. 

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AUTOMATIC Support & Resistance + Propulsion Candle Gap Target Indicator

AUTOMATIC Support & Resistance + Propulsion Candle Gap Target Indicator

Here we take a look at the support and resistance indicator for Metatrader that helps traders identify key levels in the market that price is likely to head for. The indicator automatically draws in key support and resistance levels from the daily, weekly and monthly timeframe, meaning you no longer have to manually find those levels and keep adjusting them on your charts. When trading, you will notice that price moves to and from support and resistance levels constantly and creates large strong moves called propulsion candles which act as easy targets for price to retrace to.

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How To Position Trade, Trading Risks & Managing Your Drawdown

How To Position Trade, Trading Risks & Managing Your Drawdown

This is the lesson where it all starts to come together. How to position trade and how to actually place your trades into the market. We also take a detailed look at risk management and drawdown control, as well as aggressive drawdown control to get out of positions that don’t go your way. Finally, we have a look at Martingale and how that effects this style of trading.

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Strategies To Use as a Position Trader Explained In Detail

Strategies To Use as a Position Trader Explained In Detail

The final day of bootcamp covers the strategies I personally use to enter the market. Exactly what I’m looking for, what indicators I use for each strategy, and my exact entry and exit criteria. We also look at how the EA can automate entries with the strategies too and see it in action doing exactly that. 

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15.1% PROFIT THIS WEEK | 47.46% PROFIT SO FAR IN MAY!

15.1% PROFIT THIS WEEK | 47.46% PROFIT SO FAR IN MAY!

I’ve posted a number of videos on YouTube about the Market Reversal Alerts EA results in the last few months. Those are listed at the bottom of this post. I don’t have time this weekend to do another video, so thought instead I’d just post the results of the 4 main strategies I teach in the position trading bootcamp that are executed by the EA. The set files for each strategy (MT4 versions) are linked here too.

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March 2023 Trading Results For The Market Reversal Alerts EA

March 2023 Trading Results For The Market Reversal Alerts EA

March 2023 was a bumper month for the 4 core position trading strategies taught in the position trading bootcamp. Results shown are based on $100k accounts and included is the new H1 hedging set file that the Market Reversal Alerts EA has been running, which is a variation on the M5 hedging strategy taught in the bootcamp.

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Why Traders Need To STOP Buying Courses & Their Strategies Fail

Why Traders Need To STOP Buying Courses & Their Strategies Fail

Markets go up, markets go down, you get in, you get out, it’s that simple! Trading forex or any instrument with any trading strategy is incredibly hard to master. Everything you learn is the same thing told differently, over and over again using different language. All trading strategies are rubbish and none of them work, not because they are no good, but because when it comes to entering the market they all have the same odds of success. Often this is nothing to do with the strategy and all to do with the trader taking the trades! The markets are random and controlled by banks, what makes you think a course is going to help you make money? Technical analysis is useless, and all the books and courses teach you how to get a 50/50 shot at a random result.

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You Have No Control Over The Market! Accept it and Move on

You Have No Control Over The Market! Accept it and Move on

Understand that as a trader, whatever strategy or indicator you use has no way of telling you where the market is going to go next. You know two things, it’s going to go up and down and sideways, accept it! No trader has control over where price will go next. This short video explains why you have no way of predicting future market movement.

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Mean Reversion vs Trend Trading – Which Is The Best To Trade?

Mean Reversion vs Trend Trading – Which Is The Best To Trade?

Ask yourself if you want to be right or profitable? The forex market and most markets in general spend around 80% of their time ranging and reverting to the mean average of price. If you are trying to catch that big trend, you are missing out on 80% of the trading opportunities out there!

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What Is A Trading System – Let’s Break It Down

What Is A Trading System – Let’s Break It Down

No single indicator will give you great results when trading any forex pair, index, crypto or commodity. You need a system that gives you an edge which will be made up of multiple moving parts. Here we take a look at what a trading system or strategy is and what it needs to work.

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$7281 Profit (7.28%) – Every H1 Mean Reversion Forex Trade This Week – 27th Feb – 3rd March 2023

$7281 Profit (7.28%) – Every H1 Mean Reversion Forex Trade This Week – 27th Feb – 3rd March 2023

This is a breakdown of every H1 RSI mean reversion strategy trade closed this week by the market reversal alerts EA. You can download the set file used from the blog post on MQL5. Read the post to see every trade taken in detail. This is an exhaustion strategy that trades only when price has pushed hard for a period of time and the RSI (relative strength index) indicator signals that the market is in an extended condition. As this strategy trades on the H1 timeframe with the 14 RSI, it’s a lot faster at getting in and out than the H4 version of the strategy. Slightly more risky but more rewarding too.

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$4134 Profit (4.1%) – Every H4 Mean Reversion Forex Trade This Week – 27th Feb – 4th March 2023

$4134 Profit (4.1%) – Every H4 Mean Reversion Forex Trade This Week – 27th Feb – 4th March 2023

This is a breakdown of every H4 RSI mean reversion strategy trade closed this week by the market reversal alerts EA. You can download the set file used from the blog post on MQL5. Read the post to see every trade taken in detail. This is an exhaustion strategy that trades only when price has pushed hard for a period of time and the RSI (relative strength index) indicator signals that the market is in an extended condition. As this strategy trades on the H4 timeframe, it is a lot slower than others, but will incur less risk and more accurate entries. Smaller weekly profits consistently banked over time.

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$9271 Profit (9.2%) – ADR Reversal Forex Trades This Week – 27th Feb – 3rd March 2023

$9271 Profit (9.2%) – ADR Reversal Forex Trades This Week – 27th Feb – 3rd March 2023

This is a breakdown of every ADR reversal strategy trade closed this week by the market reversal alerts EA. Read the post to see every trade taken in detail. You can download the set file used from the blog post on MQL5. This is an exhaustion strategy that trades only when price has moved beyond its normal daily range and the EA detects a move starting in the opposite direction, which may be a profit take move started by the banks. The target for each position taken is just 1/3 of an ADR (average daily range) or 1/4 percent account gain, whichever comes first.

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$1762 Profit (1.75%) – Every H4 Mean Reversion Forex Trade This Week – 20th-24th Feb 2023

$1762 Profit (1.75%) – Every H4 Mean Reversion Forex Trade This Week – 20th-24th Feb 2023

This is a breakdown of every H4 RSI mean reversion strategy trade closed this week by the market reversal alerts EA. You can download the set file used from the blog post on MQL5. Read the post to see every trade taken in detail. This is an exhaustion strategy that trades only when price has pushed hard for a period of time and the RSI (relative strength index) indicator signals that the market is in an extended condition. As this strategy trades on the H4 timeframe, it is a lot slower than others, but will incur less risk and more accurate entries. Smaller weekly profits consistently banked over time.

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$4442 Profit (4.4%) – Every ADR Reversal Forex Trade This Week – 20th-24th Feb 2023

$4442 Profit (4.4%) – Every ADR Reversal Forex Trade This Week – 20th-24th Feb 2023

This is a breakdown of every ADR reversal strategy trade closed this week by the market reversal alerts EA. Read the post to see every trade taken in detail. You can download the set file used from the blog post on MQL5. This is an exhaustion strategy that trades only when price has moved beyond its normal daily range and the EA detects a move starting in the opposite direction, which may be a profit take move started by the banks. The target for each position taken is just 1/3 of an ADR (average daily range) or 1/4 percent account gain, whichever comes first.

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Weekly Forex Analysis For 4th February 2023

Weekly Forex Analysis For 4th February 2023

See what the fundamentals point to as being the tops buys and sells this coming week and all the important news events happening that will affect the forex markets. Also, what’s changed with the commitment of traders this week that may affect your bias heading into Monday’s trading session.

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Opening Range Breakout Strategy

Opening Range Breakout Strategy

Learn to trade a simple strategy designed for the stock market indices like the DAX, DOW, NASDAQ, FTSE and S&P500. The reason it is so effective on those instruments is because we know when volatility will occur every day, this is at the market open. Can be traded manually or fully automated with the ORB EA.

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Trend Pullback Trading Strategy

Trend Pullback Trading Strategy

Learn a simple trend pullback strategy you can implement with the market reversal alerts indicator, the RSI and 2 moving averages. Only takes 15 minutes a couple of times per day to find setups and often generates large movements over many days.

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Mean Reversion Trading Strategy

Mean Reversion Trading Strategy

Learn how to trade mean reversion strategy using the RSI. Find opportunities where profit take moves are likely to commence, so you can jump on board at the start. It doesn’t get much simpler than this or easy to back test an edge!

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The indicators are all available direct from your MT4 or MT5 platform in the market section. Alternatively, you can get them on the MQL5.com website!

The Market Reversal Alert Indicator

The key to the strategy is knowing when price is starting to turn and change direction. This indicator draws in market structure for you, then sends you an alert so you can take a look at your charts and see if there is a valid reason to enter a trade.

The Market Reversal Alert Dashboard

This amazing dashboard monitors the major time frames and all pairs you trade and alerts you instantly when a potential reversal happens. No more staring at charts all day! Every pair and key time frame in front of you in one MT4 window. Priceless.

The ADR Reversal Indicator

The ADR Reversal Indicator shows you at a glance where price is currently trading in relation to its normal average daily range. You will get instant alerts via pop-up, email or push when price exceeds its average range and levels above it of your choosing.

The ADR Alert Dashboard

The ADR reversal dashboard allows you to monitor every pair or instrument you trade in one dashboard. You’ll get alerted every time something exceeds your set ADR levels and ensure you will never miss an opportunity.

The Trade Manager Dashboard

Take control of your forex portfolio. See instantly where you stand, what's working and what's causing you pain! The Trade Manager Dashboard is designed to make risk management and exposure to currencies easier to understand.

The RSI and TDI Alert Dashboard

The RSI / TDI alert dashboard allows you to monitor 6 main timeframes (selectable by you) at once on every major pair you trade. The dashboard will alert you to extended conditions (overbought and oversold) when a candle closes on the chosen time frame.

Symmetrical Triangle Pattern Indicator

Profit from market contraction and consolidation after price makes new highs or lows in the market. Get alerted when a contraction is happening, ready to pounce on the next continuation or reversal move that is building up.

Symmetrical Triangle Pattern Dashboard

Get alerted and see instantly when any instrument you trade forms a symmetrical triangle pattern on any time frame. Get ready to pounce on those triangle breakouts!

Opening Range Breakout EA

Profit from the explosive moves that occur at the open of stock indices and give yourself an actionable edge every day. The opening range breakout EA can be tweaked to your liking to capture the trends that form just after the open every day on the main stock indices like the DAX, DOW, NASDAQ and S&P500.

The Market Reversal Alerts EA

Based on the indicator, this EA will auto trade signals generated from the market reversal alerts indicator. It has powerful filters to configure as you like to trade including ADR, MAs and RSI. You can also use it to basket/grid trade, and it has every risk option you can imagine.

The Price Action Toolkit EA

The missing piece of functionality in MT4!
Fast order buttons to quickly enter, adjust and exit positions and scalp with lightning speed. Get price action candlestick alerts on the most commonly traded patterns and auto execute entries and exits based on your preferences. 

Support, Resistance & Propulsion Gaps

Automatically draw support and resistance levels PLUS propulsion candle gaps on your chart, so you can see where price is likely to head next and/or potentially reverse. This indicator is designed to be used as part of the position trading methodology taught on this website and displays key information for targeting and potential entries.

Stock Index Hedge EA

Take advantage of the opening volatility of the major stock indexes and profit from the sudden moves created at those times when the market breaks away at the opening bell. The strategies’ goal is to simply benefit from those days when the market moves fast and hard in one direction at the open and bank that move.