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What do you trade? Are you getting bang for your buck?

25/3/2017

6 Comments

 
For all traders who don’t have a zero-spread broker, the cost of every trade we do is the spread.  We accept the brokers bid-ask differential without question:it’s the price of doing business.

Many traders, myself included, use a fixed-spread broker Some traders, myself not included, happily trade the most popular Forex pairs on M1 and M5 time frames, championing all sorts of reasons as to why their choice of instruments are the best.  I’ve yet to hear anyone tell me that they trade a particular symbol because it gives the best average daily range (ADR) to spread ratio.  Have you thought about that?

Why is the ADR to spread ratio important? It’s about getting the best ‘bang for your buck’ – if you’re paying the spread to the broker, you want to get the biggest potential return on that cost, in the form of relatively big moves.
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Guess what I like to trade from this table …?
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That data was extracted from the H1 charts that I currently have open, using a little script that I wrote.  You can do the same for your broker and charts if you want – I’ve put the script on the ‘MT4 Free Indicators & Scripts’ page.
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  • Open all the charts you want to analyse ​and make sure they have enough daily data loaded in history.
  • Drag the script onto your first (left-most) chart.
  • Enter the number of days ADR that you would like to analyse (the default is 10 days)

The script will display the information in the ‘experts’ tab and create a CSV file, so you can sort the data how you want: called “Snorm Pips 10 Day ADR.csv” in your ‘files’ folder (10 will be changed to the number of days ADR that you’ve chosen).
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If your broker spreads are like mine, you might want to ask yourself why you trade GBPJPY in preference to GBPUSD on the lower time frames; or the FTSE in preference to the DAX, etc.

Your results may be substantially different at various times of the day, if you have a variable-spread broker, It might be worth running the script a few times to see how the spread-ADR ratio changes (rename the csv file before running the script if you want to compare results each time)..

6 Comments
AC
25/3/2017 11:48:12 am

Brilliant post as always...

Certainly something to consider

Cheers

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Steve
25/3/2017 12:04:20 pm

Thanks AC :)

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Kyle
25/3/2017 01:32:50 pm

Brilliant, as always Steve. Rams home the obvious

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Steve
25/3/2017 02:26:14 pm

And thank you Kyle :)

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Ofer
21/4/2017 01:31:57 pm

Hi,
Is there any new with EwaveHarmonic course?
Thanks

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Steve
21/4/2017 02:24:25 pm

Hi Ofer

I've completed most of the course. I think it will be something that will never really be finished but there is some good material already. I'll send you an email.

All the best
Steve

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