To be fair, the buyzone is pretty s**t hot for someone who knows how to use it correctly without being greedy and taking a profit when it is available. No squiggly lines, and simple to interpret.
Another issue is the broker/scalping/fixed spread issue, which shouldn't be an issue using an ECN.
Also, lets remember that it can be used on a different timeframe than M5 - say M610, M6 etc, and we can customize the distance of the long and short lines from the Hourly open line.
These modifications will also enable us to customise to an extent the likely number of trades that can be done in an hour/session etc.
Therefore this demonstrates that we CAN personalise the buyzone to our personal preferences, and ensure that it suits us, rather than using TRO's default M5 settings all the time :idea:.
TRO,
Does Metatrader work with EFX ?
Paul
I don't scalp, but if I did, and I was using an automated or indicator driven scalping method, I'd say you absolutely need to be placing your orders on the prices upon which the method is based.You don't really need a broker and datafeed who's price match exactly IMO. They are all prety close anyway.
I don't scalp, but if I did, and I was using an automated or indicator driven scalping method, I'd say you absolutely need to be placing your orders on the prices upon which the method is based.
I don't scalp, but if I did, and I was using an automated or indicator driven scalping method, I'd say you absolutely need to be placing your orders on the prices upon which the method is based.
I don't scalp, but if I did, and I was using an automated or indicator driven scalping method, I'd say you absolutely need to be placing your orders on the prices upon which the method is based.
You'd think so wouldn't you, and matching datafeed/broker was my prefered option b4 i tried it. But in my experience on around 1000 very short term trades or so, with a seperate broker/datafeed combination, i found that i was making an average of 1.2 pips extra per trade than i should have been. Therefore if you are gaining from this setup overall, why would you NOT want to take advantage of this :?:
If scalping the BUYZONE on M5 chart, i'd maybe expect to be doing 15 trades in an 8 hour session. If a broker/datafeed combination existed that enabled me to make 15-18 more pips than i should have done, I certainly want to take advantage of this.
It does maybe require ongoing monitoring, to make sure you are still getting the extra 1 pip, and NOT making -1 pip on each trade. But a pip is a pip, and its worth trying IMO. Afterall, I've made around 1200 extra pips than i should have done as a result of this phenomenon :|.
Cheers.
If you had been in my TWO PERCENT CLUB a few minutes ago you could have been making pips with us:
(8:06 AM) zeller4: +3
(8:06 AM) fcg0lfer: yup +11
(8:06 AM) slptrade: beautiful call Avery
(8:06 AM) Dcpip: +11
(8:06 AM) scottei_1: yes
(8:06 AM) Dcpip: ty
(8:06 AM) CMEHH: 2 trades, 23 pips
(8:07 AM) sgoldney: i got a few. first news play so i need some practice at that
(8:07 AM) Rsimp: nice work peops
(8:07 AM) slptrade: +9 and i was late
(8:07 AM) davidb_12: 18
(8:07 AM) scottei_1: +7p out quik
(8:07 AM) CMEHH: great call TRO
what about me, the er2 only been open 45 mins and 3 trades,1 wrong 2 right and im done for the day...........love it.
jason
What settings do you have for the Buy Zone on ER2 ?
Paul
TRO - THE BUY ZONE RULES:
The long zone is the Open Price + .0003 and +.0004.
The short zone is the Open Price - .0003 and -.0004.
For the USDJPY use .03/.04 instead.
Go long on green (bull) candle in the long zone and short on red (bear) candle in short zone.
I reset the Buy Zone at the start of the hour.
Or you can use the London, New York and Sydney open prices.
SL is 5 to 7 pips.
TP is whatever you can get before it goes against you.
Having an SL & PT of evenish size (risk:reward = 1:1) is all well and good if you can achieve maybe 75% winners. Anything less, and after a loser or 2, you are struggling to break even.
I can see how the buyzone would work well if on the trades where 20+ pips present themselves, you gain a bigger slice of the pie than the current default 5-7p PT. But if people hold out for more than 5-7 pips profit, they will sometimes be wrong and end up not making any, or even worse - making losing trades.
Therefore the winners that went on to make more than the +5-7p PT, create an illusion of greater success with this strat than what we would achieve. In reality, if following TRO's stated rules, we would have been out of the trade long before the +10p_ +30p etc. potential profit materialised.
SO while the charts may look t present good opportunities, i can see that persisting with the small profit targets and 1:1 risk:reward, a lot of people using this plan may find it difficult to break even at times due to a series of whip-sawing entries/losers..
Therefore in summary, i don't believe it is as easy to trade this buyzone plan profitably, as we would like :|.