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Which Forex Pairs are Generally Trending and Which Ones Tend to Revert to the Mean

Which Forex Pairs are Generally Trending and Which Ones Tend to Revert to the Mean
Which Forex Pairs are Generally Trending and Which Ones Tend to Revert to the Mean

In this article, I will systematically investigate the tendency of different Forex pairs to either trend or revert to the mean. I will do so by backtesting a simple trend-following strategy. (Code available on Github. See the end of this article.)

“The trend is your friend.”, is a very well known trading adage. Another thing you read a lot in trading books, blogs, etc. is that the market only trends 20, 30, 40, xx% of the time.

I was wondering how these ideas relate to the Forex markets. Continue reading “Which Forex Pairs are Generally Trending and Which Ones Tend to Revert to the Mean”

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Automate your trading without writing code

Automate your trading without writing code
Automate your trading without writing code

In this post, I will investigate and show you the ways I know that you can automate your trading without the need to be a professional software developer. In fact, you don’t even need to be able to code. The main reason why I trade end-of-day strategies is that I do not want to be in front of my computer screen trading the whole day. Another way not to be stuck behind your screen for the whole day is to automate your trading strategy. when most people think about automating a trading strategy they think about writing code and setting up a server and hooking up some trading APIs. Continue reading “Automate your trading without writing code”