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Today’s update to the Position Size Calculator indicator is not as big and significant as the last one, but I am sure the version 2.08 will be interesting to many traders.

Platform profile change will no long disrupt your panel location, minimization status, and settings:

Pip value…

It is time to roll out a new version of the Position Size Calculator indicator. Although the new release does not implement any breakthrough changes it introduces some useful features and fixes one annoying bug.

Take-profit button multiplier (set via input parameter) can be …

I remember myself during my early Forex years, sitting on a bunch of positions across five or six currency pairs and thinking — how do I make them all close at once when their total profit reaches my target? Now, I have developed a tool that does exactly that. I am pleased to announce the launch …

MetaQuotes has spurred my development process, forcing me to release the next version of the Position Size Calculator indicator much faster than I had intended to. Their latest changes to both MT4 and MT5 platforms prevented compilation of the PSC source code due to new way the string variables must be …

It is time to release another version of Position Size Calculator indicator. It has some important bugs fixed and also adds new exciting features, including two new tabs. The complete list of changes is provided below.

The Balance button on the Main tab now has a third

I have uploaded a new version of Position Size Calculator indicator for MetaTrader today. It addresses several issues mentioned in the forums and in support messages and provides better usability. Here is the list of changes:

Calculated symbol Leverage is now visible in the Margin tab of the panel. Fixed a bug that

In February 2008, I have launched a simple online position size calculator — a tool that helped thousands of traders to open trades based on their risk preference. In March 2012, I have published the first version of position size calculator (PSC) indicator for MetaTrader. Now, 4 …

Daily Percentage Change is the latest addition to the list of free MT4/MT5 indicators I share on EarnForex.com. It is loosely based on this MT4 indicator. The main advantage of such an indicator is that it can be used in price action trading to get the understanding of the current session’s direction …

You might already know how to copy input parameters for a single indicator across different charts and platforms. You also might have mastered the power of copying the whole account profiles from one MetaTrader instance to another. However, sometimes, what you need is just to copy one chart — …

In March, MetaQuotes had launched a public beta of MetaTrader 5 platform with position hedging and backtesting on real ticks. In April, the developer had pushed the modification to brokers’ demo servers. The companies can disable creation of hedging accounts in MT5 (which they mostly do). However, the feature is already there and soon …

Today, I would like to present a review of a research paper called Crowds, Crashes, and the Carry Trade. It was published by Valeri Sokolovski, a finance scholar at the Stockholm School of Economics. It was presented by Mr. Sokolovski at the conference called Exchange Rate Models for a New Era: Major …

This book was recommended to me by a fellow redditor from /r/Forex. Trade Mindfully: Achieve Your Optimum Trading Performance with Mindfulness and Cutting Edge Psychology is one of the books on trading psychology that provide valuable advice and actionable techniques. Another trading book of such a high quality level …

Japanese candlestick charts have become a staple trading tool since a long time ago. An Introduction to Japanese Candlestick Charting had been written by Erik Gebhard of Altavest quite some time before that (in the year 2000). Nevertheless, this e-book can still serve as a primer for newbie …

A necessary disclaimer: I have received a complimentary copy of the book from its author, so my review may be biased due to that.

Momo Traders: Tips, Tricks, and Strategies from Ten Top Traders is a book about successful day traders in stock markets. It was written by Brady Dahl and co-authored …

Reviewing an economics study paper that is 8 years old but is still relevant today is an odd experience. The Impact of Economic News on Financial Markets published by John C. Parker in April 2007 is a good example of such a document. John is an econometrician with nearly 40 years …

Elliott Wave theory is a popular topic in Forex trading — almost 20% of this blog readers use EW in their analysis. Last year, I have uploaded a book, which offers a new approach to achieve a definitive wave count in Elliott Wave analysis. Today, I bring to your attention another …

I have recently found an interesting research paper. It is almost twenty years old, but it provides a really great proof of candlestick patterns working as a predictive tool. The Predictive Power of Price Patterns was written by G. Caginal and H. Laurent from the Mathematics Department of the University of Pittsburgh…

Duane Shepherd is a currency analyst and trader who is running a website www.drfxtrading.blogspot.com. He specializes in swing trading, and his main method of entry into the market appears to be consolidation breakouts. He has written several e-books based on his trading method, and he generously shared one …

Back in 2009, T.S. Henessy from NewElliottWaveRule.org has written a free e-book titled The New Elliott Wave Rule — Achieve Definitive Wave Counts. It can now be considered a must-read book for those traders who employ Elliott Wave patterns in their analysis (in Forex and in other financials). …

As its name suggests, Encyclopedia of Trading Strategies contains descriptions of many trading strategies. But, for an encyclopedia, it is structured quite unconventionally and, also, its purpose is different from that of a normal encyclopedia.

Structure

The book is divided into three big parts — introduction, entries and exits. The book …

The current AUD/NZD uptrend is traced back to June 26. It was interrupted by just one significant consolidation before — back in late July. The current ascending triangle on the 4-hour timeframe is a classic example of such patterns with a horizontal resistance level and a well-confirmed support line.

The triangle is delimited with …

The pound had experienced a rather strong rally against the New Zealand dollar from the beginning of 2017 through the middle of May. It then entered a similarly rapid downtrend, which stalled near the end of June. Since then, the currency pair entered a consolidation phase, which has now took a form of a symmetrical …

After hitting its multi-year low against the Japanese yen back in November of 2016, the Canadian dollar has done a great deal of recovering even though the first half of 2017 was a pure downtrend for the loonie. The current upward wave is completing the inverse head-and-shoulders pattern on a weekly timeframe.

Below, you can …

Following the surge of the Canadian dollar on Wednesday, July 12, induced by the central bank’s rate hike, the EUR/CAD currency pair has formed a bearish pennant pattern on its H4 chart. Although it resembles a flag pattern, the converging edges make it technically a pennant.

The chart screenshot below shows the pennant formation …

After falling to its June 14 low, the USD/CAD currency pair began rising slowly, forming a perfect ascending channel pattern on its four-hour chart. A bearish breakout from this pattern would imply a continuation of the previous strong downtrend of the US dollar against the loonie.

The channel is marked with the yellow …

A rather rough bullish pennant pattern has formed on the 4-hour chart of the USD/JPY currency pair. The pair’s rally started on June 14 following a new monthly low. It has managed to set up a new higher high and then entered a consolidation that seems like a valid bullish pennant formation, which …

The daily chart of the USD/JPY currency pair demonstrates a classic occurrence of the descending channel pattern ready for an upward breakout. The channel has formed after the pair had peaked in December of 2016. It lasted long enough and produced a sufficient number of border touches to be viewed as a valid trend continuation formation.

The channel is …

This double top formation is a quite big one considering that the preceding uptrend did not last too long and did not gain many pips for the Aussie. Nevertheless, it satisfies the main requirements of a valid double top pattern and can be used for a bearish breakout setup.

The pattern tops …

I have already written about a symmetrical triangle on GBP/CHF weekly chart 2 weeks ago. Today, you can see a similar pattern but with a different trend direction on the daily chart of the pound/yen pair. This consolidation finishes off the uptrend that lasted from October through mid-December and offers …

The British pound looks to be prepared for a continuation of its long-term downtrend against the Swiss franc. The GBP/CHF currency pair has formed a nearly perfect symmetrical triangle on its weekly chart. A downtrend breakout would definitely mean a bearish trend here.

The triangle is bordered with the yellow lines on the chart screenshot …

Unless you trade solely on your broker’s web platform and do all your analysis on Tradingview or its likes, having at least one trading platform installed on your computer is an obvious necessity. Whether you are still learning to trade or you are an experienced Forex trader, the chances are …

Despite the recent developments in the North Korea crisis, I do not hold the probability of the actual war action higher than 0.1%. The North Korean artillery, holding Seoul hostage, would prevent the Western world from initiating the armed conflict. The fact that there is no possibility for the North …

Although the popularity of the retail Forex trading is growing rapidly, a lot of people do not know what it actually is, and of those who do, many have wrong ideas about the industry. This creates a lot of misunderstanding between traders and their friends and family.

The issue with getting the approval …

Although crude oil does not pertain to the foreign exchange market, it is often traded by currency traders via CFDs provided by numerous retail Forex brokers. The last time WTI oil traded below $40 per barrel was on August 3, 2016, while the Brent crude reached …

Various countries deal with the retail Forex trading industry differently. Long gone are the days when regulators ignored small traders and their relationship with brokers. Developed countries set up the regulatory frameworks that protect the retail customers but create many restrictions. At the same time, some …

Nowadays, it is normal for retail Forex brokers to offer trading accounts from as little as $1. Of course, when you start trading with such a low amount, you cannot earn anything significant without resorting to pure gambling. But where does that limit, which separates ‘just …

Considering the polling results of the traders after the last year’s Brexit market chaos and the 2015 Greek referendum, the majority of the retail market participants managed to either benefit from the big moves caused by these scheduled yet dangerous events or at least not to get burnt by them. That seems to be …

Typically, when a Forex trader closes a position, the outcome is either positive (gain) or negative (loss); the breakeven trades happen but are quite rare and uninteresting. Trading platforms usually display the outcome as the value in pips or currency units, or both. Detailed account reports can also show them in percentage to the account …

My old poll about the popularity of currency pairs had rather predictable results — EUR/USD, GBP/USD, the JPY pairs are the leaders. But how about cryptocurrency trading? Can it be considered a part of the more traditional Forex scene? Given the fact that many FX brokers now support …

Arbitrage is a practice of earning money by simultaneously buying and selling the same asset on different markets without exposing yourself to the asset value risk. The simplest example of FX arbitrage would be to buy a currency at one broker at an Ask price that is lower than the Bid price you can sell it …

Following our detailed infographic explaining the basics of VPS application in Forex trading, the IT specialists from Swiss Artmotion offer their own interpretation of the trading infrastructure problem. The infographic explains how the trader’s choice of server hardware (and software too) impacts the profits earned and lost. The main idea is that a meticulous …

Since my explanation of how VPS can enhance automated Forex trading was quite popular among this blog’s readers but lacked an easy-to-understand visual explanation, we have created this infographic. You can learn about hosting your MetaTrader expert advisors on a virtual private server in just …

The final piece of Forex infographics that is presented to you by EarnForex is the visualized statistics of the currency and currency pair popularity in Forex trading. Although London still hosts the largest volume of daily Forex transactions, the Great Britain pound is only 4th by popularity, the same as GBP/USD among the currency …

Despite the fact that the US dollar is the most popularly traded currency in the modern FX market, the worldwide leader for the currency trading is not the US but UK with its capital city of London. The presented infographics displays the geographical distribution of global Forex trading turnover. The data is from April, …

According to the latest reports, the Forex industry is growing rapidly. For a better picture of the current state of the foreign exchange market I’ve decided to create a set of infographics. The first one shows the global FX turnover along with the biggest participants — the financial institutions that provide liquidity to the retail Forex brokers. The data …

Many think of bitcoin as an investment and rightly so, it has grown from being worth fractions of a penny to being worth hundreds of dollars in a few short years. Price fluctuations have made it a popular commodity to trade both in the futures market and in real time. Bitcoin now easily surpasses $100 …

You might already know how to copy input parameters for a single indicator across different charts and platforms. You also might have mastered the power of copying the whole account profiles from one MetaTrader instance to another. However, sometimes, what you need is just to copy one chart — …

Many MetaTrader users are struggling to work with indicators on multiple charts. They pose a reasonable question: “Is there a way to save indicator input parameters from one chart and easily load them on another?” The answer is: “Yes, it is definitely possible!” Traders often ask me about …

If you have thought that trading based on the accurately calculated position size cannot get any better, think again. Now you can use a MetaTrader script to place orders based on the calculations of the Position Size Calculator indicator. The script will detect the position size calculated by the indicator …

There are two different ways to get price alerts in your MetaTrader Forex trading platform. The first one is to use the built-in Alerts system. The second way is to use the special Price Alert indicator. The former is much simpler and more customizable, while the latter allows setting visual …

Update 2016-05-09: This tutorial is now obsolete. Please refer to MetaTrader Indicators — User’s Tutorial for MT5 indicators installation instructions.

This tutorial covers only MetaTrader 5 indicator installation. If you need info on MetaTrader 4 indicator installation, please, refer to my previous tutorial…

Sometimes, it is necessary to copy all your MetaTrader chart settings to another PC or save them while you are reinstalling Windows on your current PC, or in cases when you are moving to a new broker and have to …

Trailing stop allows you to automatically protect the profits with your positions. It adjusts itself according to the current market rate and the amount of pips you give it to trail behind. Trailing stop is a great tool for the conservative and long term traders as it easily creates protective «airbag» for the trades. There are two basic ways …

Update 2016-05-09: The tutorial has been completely revamped to reflect the most current and easiest way to install new indicators in MetaTrader — both MT4 and MT5.

This tutorial covers indicator installation for MetaTrader 4 and 5. Since MT4 Build 600, there is no difference in the way it is done in the two …

Backtesting MetaTrader expert advisors on historical data is a good way to test a strategy. But testing on the limited data supplied with MT4 installation gives a very poor quality of testing (usually below 50%). So, how to achieve a 90% quality in backtesting of MT4 expert advisors? It’s not that hard …

With summer months approaching, it would be curious to see whether the FX market is becoming more or less suited for active trading than during the rest of the year. Summer season is usually associated with whipsawing sideways market that offers little opportunities for day trading. In stock trading, …

If you have thought that trading based on the accurately calculated position size cannot get any better, think again. Now you can use a MetaTrader script to place orders based on the calculations of the Position Size Calculator indicator. The script will detect the position size calculated by the indicator …

The new version of the ChannelPattern script can now draw Entry/TP levels as trendlines on a chosen side of the Border channel. By default, it will act as before — draw two channels (Entry and Take-Profit) around the given Border channel. If new the input parameter Sides is set to Upper or Lower…

Sometimes, I post a sort of chart pattern analysis that often consists of channel patterns — descending, ascending or horizontal. They all share some common traits:

Each one has a main pattern — a channel. On my charts, it is marked with yellow lines. Each has two entry