Author: Alan Ross

4,362 trades from an EMA cross, an RSI and a Stochastic entry, sorted by the hour they opened, on EURUSD and gold, M5 and M15. The busiest hours stayed the busiest, but the six best hours before July 15 lost money after it: +0.33 pips a trade became -1.26 on EURUSD M5. 4 of 45 session windows passed every check, none on EURUSD.

The three-indicator combo against each single indicator, each pair, a 2 of 3 vote and a 50/200 EMA cross, on EURUSD and gold, M5 and M15. It was ahead of a single in 12 of 16 match-ups and of a pair in 9 of 12, but only 2 of those 28 gaps were bigger than sampling noise. What it reliably did was trade 73% to 80% less.

The beginner combo as exact rules: Stochastic cross from below 20, RSI cross of 50 and MACD signal cross within 6 bars, on EURUSD and gold, M5 and M15. Only 319 of 1,502 Stochastic signals got all three, the entry came 3.29 ATR off the low against 1.17 for the Stochastic alone, and the combo lost 1.17 pips a trade on EURUSD M5.

Triangle, wedge and channel breakouts against a plain close beyond the 30-bar high or low, on EURUSD and gold, M5 and M15. The box lost less per trade on all 4 charts, had fewer false breakouts on all 4, and hit its measured target 49% to 59% of the time against 35% to 36% for the patterns.

Triangles, wedges, channels, rectangles and flags found by rules from swing highs and lows on EURUSD and gold, M5 and M15. Ascending triangles broke down 54 of 77 times, wedges matched the textbook, and breakouts reached +1 ATR first only 40.7% to 47.3% of the time against about 50% for a random bar.

Five indicators, EURUSD and gold, 20 match-ups between entering on the first arrow and waiting for the close. On M15 the early entry did better 7 times in 10, on H1 the close 8 times in 10. Arrows that survived paid more early in 20 of 20; arrows that vanished lost in 20 of 20.