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October 4, 2026 Alan Ross

Backtest vs Demo Account: 10 of 12 Tuned Setups Made Money in the Backtest, 1 of 12 Kept It on the Weeks That Followed

Six well-known rules on 16,926 EURUSD and 13,736 gold M5 bars, tuned on the first two thirds and run on the last third with demo-style fills. 10 of 12 tuned backtests were profitable, 1 of 12 stayed profitable. On EURUSD the spread took 1.1 pips from every trade.

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October 3, 2026 Alan Ross

RSI Swing Trading Setup for MT4: RSI 7 at 30/70 on H1 Stayed Positive at Every Hold and in Both Halves, and Gold Did Not Follow

How to set up RSI for swing trading in MT4 and MT5, with each setting tested on 1,417 EURUSD H1 bars and 1,146 gold H1 bars. RSI 7 at 30/70 made +1.80 to +3.02 pips per trade at 3, 6 and 12-hour holds; the same setup on gold lost $1.56 held 6 hours.

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October 3, 2026 Alan Ross

Swing RSI vs Scalping RSI: 0 of 45 M5 Settings Beat a 1-Pip Cost, 26 of 36 on H1 Did, and RSI 168 on M5 Never Touched 30 or 70

Scalping RSI and swing RSI on the same 16,926 EURUSD bars. RSI 14 at 30/70 lost 0.94 pips as a scalp and made +4.98 as a swing trade; about a third of that came from holding longer. The period-times-12 shortcut tracked H1 RSI at 0.984 but stayed between 33.6 and 66.0.

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October 3, 2026 Alan Ross

RSI Settings for Swing Trading Tested: RSI 14 at 30/70 Lost 0.94 Pips on M5 and Made 4.98 on H1, and H4 Fired Only 10 Times

The same RSI rules on M5, M15, H1 and H4 bars built from 16,926 EURUSD M5 bars. On M5 0 of 45 settings made money after a 1-pip cost, on H1 26 of 36 did. RSI 7 at 30/70 on H1 was the sturdiest: 113 trades, +3.02 pips, positive in both halves. Gold did not follow.

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October 2, 2026 Alan Ross

Forex Reversal Indicator Settings for MT4: 0 of 24 Paid After a Pip, and Bollinger 20/2.5 Put 37.6% of Arrows at the Real Turn

How to set up Fractals, RSI levels, Bollinger re-entry and engulfing in MT4 and MT5, with 24 settings tested on EURUSD M5 and the defaults on gold. Wider bands and slower fractals found real tops and bottoms more often, up to 39.7%, but none of the 24 made money after a 1-pip cost.

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October 2, 2026 Alan Ross

Reversal Indicators vs Simply Fading the Last Hour: The No-Indicator Rule Made +0.49 Pips Before Costs, Every Indicator Made Less

Four reversal indicators against one rule with no indicator: if EURUSD moved 5 pips in the last hour, trade against it. On 16,926 M5 bars the plain rule made +0.49 pips per trade before costs. Bollinger, Fractals, engulfing and RSI made -0.04 to -0.70, and RSI lost to the same move without it on every check.

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October 2, 2026 Alan Ross

Forex Reversal Indicators Tested: 7,181 Arrows From Four Rules, None Beat a Coin at Calling the Next 10 Pips, and Engulfing Did Worst

Fractals, RSI leaving 30/70, Bollinger re-entry and the engulfing candle on 16,926 EURUSD M5 bars. Bollinger sat at the real top or bottom 33.8% of the time, three times the random rate, but none of the four won the 10-pip race more than a coin, and all lost 1.04 to 1.70 pips per trade after costs.

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October 1, 2026 Alan Ross

Multi-Timeframe Analysis on MT4: M15 Over M5 Was the Only EURUSD Pair That Helped, and on Gold the Filter Won 113 of 144

How to set up a higher-timeframe trend filter in MT4 and MT5 with two windows, one longer EMA or an MTF indicator, and which pair to use. On EURUSD M5 only the M15 filter helped more often than it hurt. On gold an H1 EMA 50 took the EMA cross from +$0.38 to +$1.51 per trade.

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October 1, 2026 Alan Ross

Higher-Timeframe Filter vs a Slow Moving Average: H1 EMA 50 and M5 EMA 600 Agreed on 93.3% of Bars, and M15 Beat Both

An H1 trend filter against slow EMAs on the 5-minute chart, with the same four entries and exits on 16,926 EURUSD bars. The H1 EMA 50 traded within 0.04 pips of an M5 EMA 600. The short M15 EMA 50 did best for three of four entries, and requiring H1 and H4 to agree made results worse.