The Dangers Of Backtesting Your Trading System

Today we've invited Hugh of TradingHeros.com to talk a little bit about the dangers of backtesting.

Hugh loves to surf, drinks butter with his coffee, is almost the same height as Jeremy Lin and aspires to be a Professional Forex Trader.  He logs his trades, interviews professional traders, does trading software tutorials and analyzes his backtesting results on his Forex trading blog .

You have finally done it! After a 36 hour marathon backtesting session, 15 pots of coffee and some smelling salts, you finally have the vital stats on your new discretionary technical trading system called the GekkoSmasher 3. And the results look very promising... Continue reading "The Dangers Of Backtesting Your Trading System"

A basic guide to choosing technical indicators

Today's Guest Blog post comes courtesy of Kathleen Brooks who is a UK and EMEA research director at Forex.com based in London. She uses both fundamental and technical methods in her analysis. She provides daily research and market updates as well as a weekly webinar on market themes. She is a regular contributor to Yahoo Finance, Reuters Great Debate Blog as well as a host of other international publications. She is often quoted in the global financial press and is a regular contributor on business TV including CNBC, CNBC Arabia, the BBC and Bloomberg. She started her career in finance at BP where she worked first as a business analyst in its trading division and then as a trading analyst in its foreign exchange dealing room. Click here to find out more about Forex.com.

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Navigating your way through the forex market is a bit like trying to find your way out of a deep, dark cave with only a flicker of a match. To get out of the cave you need a torch, and luckily for the retail trader there are figurative torches in the foreign exchange markets too.

One such beacon is technical analysis, which can make life a lot easier. Moving averages, relative strength indicators, Bollinger Bands, Fibonacci retracements, MACD's and Ichimoku Cloud charts are just some of the technical indicators that are widely used in the forex markets as buy and sell signals.

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Mastering MarketClub: Scheduled Webinars

If you haven't signed up for this week's webinar, it's not too late as we still have space available. Just click the link below to register for this week's or any other webinar topics that you might find interesting.

January 15th - “Open Forum and FAQ” presented by Susan Jackson and Jeremy Lutz

January 22nd - “MarketClub’s Forex Trading Strategy” presented by Adam Hewison

January 29th - “MarketClub’s Scanning Tools” presented by Jeremy Lutz

February 5th - "Beginner's Trading Terminology" presented by Susan Jackson and Lindsay Thompson

We have some great webinars coming in the next few months, but we'd really like to hear your ideas. Let us know what you would like to see in upcoming presentations by emailing

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Forex markets: Day trading versus End of Day trading

At MarketClub.com, we cover the Forex markets with real-time streaming data, but trader's blog members often ask which is better: Day Trading or End of Day Trading the Forex markets. To help answer that question and answer ANY other Forex questions you might have is Bill Poulos. Bill's developed an amazing Forex Income Engine 2.0 course (goes live at 10am today), and has decided to give us one more post and clear his schedule to answer any and ALL questions you might have for him! Please comment below with your own thoughts on which is better for Forex trading and your own personal experiences!

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Forex traders often ask: “Is it better to trade the Forex markets on an end of day basis (with daily charts) or a day trading basis (with 5, 10, 30, etc minute charts)?”

There is no right answer to this question, as I believe it depends on your individual circumstances, preferred style of trading, amount of starting capital, and volatility in the markets.

Let’s take these one at a time.

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If you didn't make money in May watch this video

If you didn't make money this month then you weren't watching our Trade Triangles.

See how we did in three major markets (my new video).

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