Andreas2000 wrote: Sat Sep 07, 2024 2:26 am Unfortunately, my trade is down again, the news has hit my SL

Hello Andreas2000,

Don't feel bad, remember that you're just beginning to understand how the “XARD - Simple Trend Following Trading System” strategy works, making mistakes is part of the learning process and the more you make mistakes, the stronger you'll become.

What do we learn from our mistakes?

Write, write a lot, either on paper or on the computer, and build your notebook of this strategy, what your rules are, others that you take from this thread, you know you can do it? And little by little you'll begin to understand the logic. Did you make a mistake today? I hope it was a demo, but that's part of it, you remember my post:

"...Just remember, like xard777 said and another members on this thread, this is not a rocket science, just follow the simple rules, but in the beginning is not easy understand the logic, but it persistence, dedication, patient, if not working at first time, or in +1 year, but if you want, you can do it if your propose and dedication if this, your life changes in a short space of time when you achieve perfection and consistency at the end of the day/week or month, believe it or not..."

But that's just it, because it's part of the learning process, whether it's news (for me the most important news of the month is the NFP), the rest is following patterns, but that's me, I hope you don't lose heart and fall apart, because I believe in you and in many of those who follow and use this strategy because it's possible, on a day like today everyone came out victorious for learning and trading is like that, you can't hold on to ideas, you have to learn continuously and until you reach the stage where you don't have to change anything else, just follow your mindset.

Now we have a weekend coming up, take advantage, we have BTC with the market open, write on the chart, your notes with possible entries, I believe that today your feeling is not the best, but take note do not open anything, and make some screenshots and say I entered for this and this, and you will see if it materializes or not, little by little you will have the energy that you know so well.

We are with you, we are in forex-station.com

Curioso wrote: Sat Sep 07, 2024 5:40 am Hello Phoenix36,

Wonderful, you are in the right track to became profitable.

One tip, if you are in the learning journey, take more time to understand better and improve your gains, demo is for that propose, because if lost in real money can be hard.

Hi, I don't want to undermine. However, I will do it. In good faith. I share my reflection and short, less than 4 years of experience.

This entry is addressed to everyone who trades on a demo account. Not personally and to no one in particular. To all Demo Traders.

My subjective assessment. A demo account is good for quickly testing a strategy, possibly an indicator or some EA (I advise against EA. The only EAs are those that allow for manual/semi-automatic transaction management. The rest of the EAs are dreams and a waste of time, just garbage). When you use a demo account for quick tests, it's ok. When you start pretending that you're pretending, pretending in trading, because it takes you days or weeks, and God forbid years... I sympathize. A demo account kills anyone who plays with it. Anyone who plays with a demo account is dragged into quicksand, from which few will get out alive. A demo account kills everything in the trader that can kill. The results on the demo account are a cesspool. Zero emotions. Zero introduction to real trading. You can shout and disagree with what I write. However, time is enough to convince yourself. Anyone who has wasted time on demo trading or continues to waste it will not start earning money, because they will turn into a forex vegetable. After trading on a demo account, all money will be lost 100%. Sad? True. Instead of a demo account, I recommend, recommend, suggest, advise - learn to trade with real money. From the very beginning. Small amounts. As small as possible. 10, 20, 50, 100 USD. These amounts will be lost at the beginning anyway, many, many times everyone who starts will lose them. It hurts so much. However, it is like hardening steel. Success is woven from the thread of failures. When you do not feel real pain, you will never become a profitable trader. I will add at the end once again, you do not have to agree with what I wrote. These are my subjective experiences. I used the demo account for a month over 3 years ago. Since then, when someone told me the same thing I wrote here.. I started trading and learning only on real accounts, funded with real cash. Losses hurt. But only then do we know which way we have to go to improve our trading. Systems, setups, strategies, indicators... most of them work perfectly, but most lose. The most important indicator is reason, patience, courage, perseverance. With these indicators, when you use them correctly, an interesting future awaits you.
Demo is the same as eating pizza from an advertising brochure, or driving your dream car, but only with a newspaper in your hand, or a trip around the world, through the window of a TV or travel agency, also a date with a girl you can only touch with your finger on your smartphone. This is what trading on a demo account looks like. Those who do not believe, will be convinced and believe. Or maybe someone who reads this will understand and from Monday will start to feel the real, inseparable at the beginning pain of losing real money. There is no other way. You want to go to the Ring and you're afraid of getting hit in the nose? Hey.... What's wrong with you?

88FX88 wrote: Sat Sep 07, 2024 6:44 am Hi, I don't want to undermine. However, I will do it. In good faith. I share my reflection and short, less than 4 years of experience.

This entry is addressed to everyone who trades on a demo account. Not personally and to no one in particular. To all Demo Traders.

My subjective assessment. A demo account is good for quickly testing a strategy, possibly an indicator or some EA (I advise against EA. The only EAs are those that allow for manual/semi-automatic transaction management. The rest of the EAs are dreams and a waste of time, just garbage). When you use a demo account for quick tests, it's ok. When you start pretending that you're pretending, pretending in trading, because it takes you days or weeks, and God forbid years... I sympathize. A demo account kills anyone who plays with it. Anyone who plays with a demo account is dragged into quicksand, from which few will get out alive. A demo account kills everything in the trader that can kill. The results on the demo account are a cesspool. Zero emotions. Zero introduction to real trading. You can shout and disagree with what I write. However, time is enough to convince yourself. Anyone who has wasted time on demo trading or continues to waste it will not start earning money, because they will turn into a forex vegetable. After trading on a demo account, all money will be lost 100%. Sad? True. Instead of a demo account, I recommend, recommend, suggest, advise - learn to trade with real money. From the very beginning. Small amounts. As small as possible. 10, 20, 50, 100 USD. These amounts will be lost at the beginning anyway, many, many times everyone who starts will lose them. It hurts so much. However, it is like hardening steel. Success is woven from the thread of failures. When you do not feel real pain, you will never become a profitable trader. I will add at the end once again, you do not have to agree with what I wrote. These are my subjective experiences. I used the demo account for a month over 3 years ago. Since then, when someone told me the same thing I wrote here.. I started trading and learning only on real accounts, funded with real cash. Losses hurt. But only then do we know which way we have to go to improve our trading. Systems, setups, strategies, indicators... most of them work perfectly, but most lose. The most important indicator is reason, patience, courage, perseverance. With these indicators, when you use them correctly, an interesting future awaits you.
Demo is the same as eating pizza from an advertising brochure, or driving your dream car, but only with a newspaper in your hand, or a trip around the world, through the window of a TV or travel agency, also a date with a girl you can only touch with your finger on your smartphone. This is what trading on a demo account looks like. Those who do not believe, will be convinced and believe. Or maybe someone who reads this will understand and from Monday will start to feel the real, inseparable at the beginning pain of losing real money. There is no other way. You want to go to the Ring and you're afraid of getting hit in the nose? Hey.... What's wrong with you?

Hello 88FX88,

I absolutely agree with you on everything, I have nothing to add. But we always have to think that it has to be at lower values, because this can quickly lose a lot of money, and I speak for myself. Unfortunately, before I got to know this community and xard's strategy, i often blew up accounts many times and i don´t want the people fell those emotions i lived in that time.

During the learning this strategy, I was silent for a long time and I used to have real accounts and they would blow up, I even had a demo next to a real one, and yes emotions have nothing to do with it, it's zero on demo. Fortunately, I only have real accounts many months, and I've maintained the same discipline and concentration since the first day I understand the logic behind this strategy and gained confidence. But it was very hard to see other members being profitable and me nothing, but that's part of who we are today.

What I mean is that when you're learning to negotiate, you shouldn't jump straight into the real bills straight away, because we live in a time when the cost of living is very expensive, which can lead to more problems with self-esteem and confidence. I think you know what I mean.

About the EAs you are so right too, but I believe there are, in smaller and more restricted communities, but it's interesting that you mention it.

Like i have in my signature: “Don’t blindly follow someone, follow market and try to hear what it is telling you.” - Jaymin Shah

But I loved reading your post, one of those that will stay in my memory.

xard777 wrote: Fri Sep 06, 2024 5:58 pm My apologies to everyone, I messed up my XU v13m-setup and have now corrected it.

I have deleted the previous version from this thread so that there are no more downloads of it.

Please use this enclosed version.
All the best
Xard777

What was wrong with the previous version?

Samoth wrote: Sat Sep 07, 2024 9:38 am Did you remove the alerts in this version?
What was wrong with the previous version?

I don't know exactly what changes were made, I did have some issues with Semaphore Dots. Xard was in a rush though to get it fixed, I have enabled the alerts in this file.

Hey,

I'll put it very simply to what you mentioned below.

Yes, you are 100% right. I NEEDED TO READ/HEAR THIS FROM SOMEONE. THANK YOU. (I may have choked up reading it, but I re-read it a few times)

The saddest fact is that these past 3 years I have done it alone, no mentor, no guidance, nothing.

I never had anyone who would kick/write some sense into my trading plan, so I pretty much lived in my own bubble which has well and truly bursted now and frankly good riddance.

So again, THANK YOU.

-------------------------

I do have a live account, and I intend to start using this strategy on it shortly.

88FX88 wrote: Sat Sep 07, 2024 6:44 am Hi, I don't want to undermine. However, I will do it. In good faith. I share my reflection and short, less than 4 years of experience.

This entry is addressed to everyone who trades on a demo account. Not personally and to no one in particular. To all Demo Traders.

My subjective assessment. A demo account is good for quickly testing a strategy, possibly an indicator or some EA (I advise against EA. The only EAs are those that allow for manual/semi-automatic transaction management. The rest of the EAs are dreams and a waste of time, just garbage). When you use a demo account for quick tests, it's ok. When you start pretending that you're pretending, pretending in trading, because it takes you days or weeks, and God forbid years... I sympathize. A demo account kills anyone who plays with it. Anyone who plays with a demo account is dragged into quicksand, from which few will get out alive. A demo account kills everything in the trader that can kill. The results on the demo account are a cesspool. Zero emotions. Zero introduction to real trading. You can shout and disagree with what I write. However, time is enough to convince yourself. Anyone who has wasted time on demo trading or continues to waste it will not start earning money, because they will turn into a forex vegetable. After trading on a demo account, all money will be lost 100%. Sad? True. Instead of a demo account, I recommend, recommend, suggest, advise - learn to trade with real money. From the very beginning. Small amounts. As small as possible. 10, 20, 50, 100 USD. These amounts will be lost at the beginning anyway, many, many times everyone who starts will lose them. It hurts so much. However, it is like hardening steel. Success is woven from the thread of failures. When you do not feel real pain, you will never become a profitable trader. I will add at the end once again, you do not have to agree with what I wrote. These are my subjective experiences. I used the demo account for a month over 3 years ago. Since then, when someone told me the same thing I wrote here.. I started trading and learning only on real accounts, funded with real cash. Losses hurt. But only then do we know which way we have to go to improve our trading. Systems, setups, strategies, indicators... most of them work perfectly, but most lose. The most important indicator is reason, patience, courage, perseverance. With these indicators, when you use them correctly, an interesting future awaits you.
Demo is the same as eating pizza from an advertising brochure, or driving your dream car, but only with a newspaper in your hand, or a trip around the world, through the window of a TV or travel agency, also a date with a girl you can only touch with your finger on your smartphone. This is what trading on a demo account looks like. Those who do not believe, will be convinced and believe. Or maybe someone who reads this will understand and from Monday will start to feel the real, inseparable at the beginning pain of losing real money. There is no other way. You want to go to the Ring and you're afraid of getting hit in the nose? Hey.... What's wrong with you?

Phoenix36 wrote: Sat Sep 07, 2024 6:43 pm Hey,

I'll put it very simply to what you mentioned below.

Yes, you are 100% right. I NEEDED TO READ/HEAR THIS FROM SOMEONE. THANK YOU. (I may have choked up reading it, but I re-read it a few times)

The saddest fact is that these past 3 years I have done it alone, no mentor, no guidance, nothing.

I never had anyone who would kick/write some sense into my trading plan, so I pretty much lived in my own bubble which has well and truly bursted now and frankly good riddance.

So again, THANK YOU.

-------------------------

I do have a live account, and I intend to start using this strategy on it shortly.

You can do without a mentor too
Most of us have not had mentors. However, there are places, such as this forum, where you can learn a lot
Believe in yourself with all the potential you carry within you. Think that each of us, in order to appear here on Earth, had to win the first sperm race. And that is what we are here and now. The next stage is another race. What we are starting is a race, in every field. Here again, only those who are the most determined, motivated and most persistent win. Just like before we appeared here. Whether it is school, work or sports competitions, hobbies or forex. There is competition everywhere, and we want to be profitable on forex. So gather strength, be patient, persistent and believe, and you will break through the poverty membrane and become a profitable trader. The decision is 100% yours. The limitations are as great as you allow them to be. I recommend motivational films:
1. The Walk
2. The Pursuit Of Happyness

PERSEVERANCE and FAITH

Curioso wrote: Sat Sep 07, 2024 7:39 am Hello 88FX88,

I absolutely agree with you on everything, I have nothing to add. But we always have to think that it has to be at lower values, because this can quickly lose a lot of money, and I speak for myself. Unfortunately, before I got to know this community and xard's strategy, i often blew up accounts many times and i don´t want the people fell those emotions i lived in that time.

During the learning this strategy, I was silent for a long time and I used to have real accounts and they would blow up, I even had a demo next to a real one, and yes emotions have nothing to do with it, it's zero on demo. Fortunately, I only have real accounts many months, and I've maintained the same discipline and concentration since the first day I understand the logic behind this strategy and gained confidence. But it was very hard to see other members being profitable and me nothing, but that's part of who we are today.

What I mean is that when you're learning to negotiate, you shouldn't jump straight into the real bills straight away, because we live in a time when the cost of living is very expensive, which can lead to more problems with self-esteem and confidence. I think you know what I mean.

About the EAs you are so right too, but I believe there are, in smaller and more restricted communities, but it's interesting that you mention it.

Like i have in my signature: “Don’t blindly follow someone, follow market and try to hear what it is telling you.” - Jaymin Shah

But I loved reading your post, one of those that will stay in my memory.

Yes...
I will clarify my point of view on EA.

EAs that are generally available, sold, offered on the Internet = garbage. Every account explodes sooner or later.

The EA that Jim Simons created, it still works today. However, it is meticulously guarded. There are probably similar EAs that work perfectly. Whoever creates a perfect EA will not sell it for a paltry 50 USD or even 50,000 USD, because these are small amounts, for cotton buds, considering that an effective EA will give a much greater return multiplied many times over.

I do not know the statistics, I can only judge by myself: many traders, when they start their trading adventure, load a real account with real money at the beginning. You have been through it, I have been through it too. Big money, for the possibilities, of each of us. Forex... a gold mine. Quick enrichment. So the more money I load the account with, the more I will earn. Why wait?
Load! And everyone tops up their account with the amount that their imagination and possibilities allow them to. First trade: WOW, there is profit! GREAT!, second trade: WOW, it is even better. Subsequent trades empty the account. You sit and think... This can be done, I saw it, there was profit. I top up again and again and so on until everything you had is zero. You start to sink. Maybe even borrow money. You lose that too. You are devastated. You take your own life... Or you are devastated, but you do not give up. You analyze and come to the conclusion that if you are not able to multiply a small account to the size of a large account, then there is no point in loading large amounts of money into a real account. So, any temptation to load the account with more $$$ is extreme stupidity. Unfortunately, we have to experience it (Success is a collection of unsuccessful, painful attempts) Unfortunately, such stupidity is carried by each of us. It is a kind of schizophrenia that we have our whole lives. We can control it, just like John Forbes Nash did (movie: A Beautiful Mind). We too can control the idiot who haunts us and tells us to pour money into the mud... The saboteur inside us should be punched in the face and keep quiet.

If you multiply $10 to $1,000, you are on the right track. Do this a few times, it will give you the certainty that you are ready. It could be $100 multiplied to $10,000, also a few times. It doesn't really matter, what matters is repeating the process over and over and over and over... What counts is profitable trading continuity over a longer period of time. Only this is a sign that we are ready.

When you control such emotions, then you can load your account with more capital and trade a lower % of the deposit. And the profits will still be perfectly decent

88FX88 wrote: Sat Sep 07, 2024 8:20 pm Yes...
I will clarify my point of view on EA.

EAs that are generally available, sold, offered on the Internet = garbage. Every account explodes sooner or later.

The EA that Jim Simons created, it still works today. However, it is meticulously guarded. There are probably similar EAs that work perfectly. Whoever creates a perfect EA will not sell it for a paltry 50 USD or even 50,000 USD, because these are small amounts, for cotton buds, considering that an effective EA will give a much greater return multiplied many times over.

I do not know the statistics, I can only judge by myself: many traders, when they start their trading adventure, load a real account with real money at the beginning. You have been through it, I have been through it too. Big money, for the possibilities, of each of us. Forex... a gold mine. Quick enrichment. So the more money I load the account with, the more I will earn. Why wait?
Load! And everyone tops up their account with the amount that their imagination and possibilities allow them to. First trade: WOW, there is profit! GREAT!, second trade: WOW, it is even better. Subsequent trades empty the account. You sit and think... This can be done, I saw it, there was profit. I top up again and again and so on until everything you had is zero. You start to sink. Maybe even borrow money. You lose that too. You are devastated. You take your own life... Or you are devastated, but you do not give up. You analyze and come to the conclusion that if you are not able to multiply a small account to the size of a large account, then there is no point in loading large amounts of money into a real account. So, any temptation to load the account with more $$$ is extreme stupidity. Unfortunately, we have to experience it (Success is a collection of unsuccessful, painful attempts) Unfortunately, such stupidity is carried by each of us. It is a kind of schizophrenia that we have our whole lives. We can control it, just like John Forbes Nash did (movie: A Beautiful Mind). We too can control the idiot who haunts us and tells us to pour money into the mud... The saboteur inside us should be punched in the face and keep quiet.

If you multiply $10 to $1,000, you are on the right track. Do this a few times, it will give you the certainty that you are ready. It could be $100 multiplied to $10,000, also a few times. It doesn't really matter, what matters is repeating the process over and over and over and over... What counts is profitable trading continuity over a longer period of time. Only this is a sign that we are ready.

When you control such emotions, then you can load your account with more capital and trade a lower % of the deposit. And the profits will still be perfectly decent

Thank you and i love that, for sharing your vision and ideas with us.

88FX88 wrote: Sat Sep 07, 2024 8:19 pm You can do without a mentor too
Most of us have not had mentors. However, there are places, such as this forum, where you can learn a lot
Believe in yourself with all the potential you carry within you. Think that each of us, in order to appear here on Earth, had to win the first sperm race. And that is what we are here and now. The next stage is another race. What we are starting is a race, in every field. Here again, only those who are the most determined, motivated and most persistent win. Just like before we appeared here. Whether it is school, work or sports competitions, hobbies or forex. There is competition everywhere, and we want to be profitable on forex. So gather strength, be patient, persistent and believe, and you will break through the poverty membrane and become a profitable trader. The decision is 100% yours. The limitations are as great as you allow them to be. I recommend motivational films:
1. The Walk
2. The Pursuit Of Happyness

PERSEVERANCE and FAITH

Hi 88FX88, I agree 100% with your vision. I suggest to add this film:

The Secret of Rhonda Byrne maybe at the third position, I don't want to comment on it, but I can assure you that it is useful, very.

I thank you for your sharing, also on the demo account, on which I have something to add.

The demo serves to study the systems, in my opinion, it is not to be confused with the real account of course, but everyone needs to become familiar with the rules, with mt4, with the banal procedures for using options and configurations that if you don't know them can cost you dearly in real time. Then it is clear that one should not think that after a winning trade in a demo one is ready for reality.
No doctor, no engineer, no artist, no one can afford to do their job without first having understood and studied the dynamics. That is what the demo must serve for, otherwise the accounts melt away like snow in the sun. Then there is something that is underestimated but is the most important and that is called Mindset, you know, here on this the demo is of little use, but at least let's go real lightening the practical dynamics so that we can dedicate ourselves to developing the correct mindset later.

Keep contributing if you want, I really appreciate your contributions.

Thank you