---------------------------open-------------------------- Trade this system from around 7/8 gmt to 16/17 gmt Avoid news times and especially 13:30 gmt Indicators: StepMA-Stoch Inverseind with Ema50 EMA50 CatFx50 . We are jumping in when a new bar opens after the cross. It is mandatory that StepMa-Stoch makes the cross too and yellow line opens below (sell)/above (buy). If Step does not do this, the trade is not validated. TF30 min We only go long when price crosses EMA50 and next bar opens above it. StepMa_Stoch must cross as well in the same direction. The open of new bar must have yellow line above blue one. StepMa_Stoch must validate the cross of EMA50 by price. IT IS MANDATORY. We only go short when price crosses EMA50 and next bar opens below it. StepMa_Stoch must cross as well in the same direction. The open of new bar must have yellow line below blue one. StepMa_Stoch must validate the cross of EMA50 by price. IT IS MANDATORY. If it is the case, we should be ready to jump in when new bar opens. WE CAN NOT LOSE TIME. WE CAN NOT HESITATE. DO NOT CHASE THE PRICE. IF YOU MISS THE CROSS, GET READY FOR ANOTHER ONE. Nina. We see price crossing up EMA50 from below. We wait till the 30 minutes bar finishes. Meanwhile, we look at StepMA_Stoch. We see yellow line crossing up blue one too. We wait till the 30 minutes bar finishes. The 30 minutes bar finishes and new bar begins. It opens above EMA50. Yellow line on StepMa_Stoch is above blue one. WE GO. WE BUY. StepMa_Stoch has validated the trade. The opposite for selling. Another situation: Bars are clossing and opening below EMA50 and yellow line on StepMa_Stoch is above blue one. What to do? We wait. We do not take any trade if EMA50 with price and StepMa_Stoch do not match. Let's imagine now that after a few bars forward yellow line on Step crosses down blue one. What to do? We could sell, of course. But, in those cases, I look at where price is in relation to EMA50. If it is near, I sell. If it is more than 20 pips away, I do not trade. When the crosses are not simultaneous there is asynchronism. Trades in those occurrences are more dangerous. Nina You have an EMA cross. StepMA does not follow. You do not trade. You have a StepMA cross. EMA cross does not follow. You do not trade. You have an EMA cross. StepMA does not follow yet. EMA cross still on. StepMa crosses too at least. You GO!!!!. You have a StepMA cross. EMA cross does not follow yet. StepMA still on. EMA crosses too at least. You GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Best signals are when the crosses are simultaneously. But you never know! When opening of new bar (signal bar) is more than 20 pips above/below EMA50, the trade could be riskier. Use common sense and do not trade as a robot. --------------------------exit---------------------- the "PERFECT" exit rule -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hy to Nina and all others, I would like to make a helpfull contribution to the question wich is been asked now for 97 pages... What is the "PERFECT" exit rule ?.. I personnaly make now mecanical systems for over 9 years. That with a programm called metastock professional. It is a software programm were one can do toroughly and trustworthy backtesting. The kind off backtesting that one can do with this programm can not be compared with the dredfull backtesting off MT4.0. My experiance with this program and mecanical backtesting and finding exit rules is that you will never find the "PERFECT" exit rule. Why is that?... One has to realize if in the set up and rules you have now, you would find the "PERFECT" exit rule that emmidiatly you would find the perfect entry who would be an other set up and set off rules for entry. Imagine this: now the set up is that you take a position (long or short) when price is around the MA(50) so that means that you get in at an average or in the middle of a range. And you want to get out at a top or at the bottom. If you would find a rule to get out at these bottoms or tops that would give you emmidiatly the perfect entry to long at this bottom or go short at this top. And again that would change your complete entry rules. So what do we do for example with metastock or Igorad with traderstation? We don't look for an exit rule but we look what this system does with stops. That is the only way who will improve our results and who are cappable off locking in profit or preventing us to go in loss or loosing to much off our profit. These stops are calculated in pips and are optimized over a long period off historical data (severall years). For ex. Our backtesting results could come up with with an ideal profittarget off ex. 75pips. A test on stoploss would show us that the ideal stoploss would be 42 pips and a trailing stop off 50 pips. and all off those stops to be taken at the close off a bar (these kind off values would be given by the backtest because over severall years off data the programm calculates that for ex. 75 is an average profit that generates the biggest total profit over severall years) Thinking that that a trailingstop could be smaller is a mistake because if for ex. you would expect a trailing stop on a 30min chart the smallest retracement will cause you to be stopt out and miss a big portion off future profits. Thinking that larger profits are possible is also a mistake because you would missout to many smaller movements. Thinking off smaller stoplosses is again the same problem, you would get stopted out to many times were a possible profit is still waiting. So if you are cappable off doing these kind off test you would see that you what not have a profittarget of 90% even not 70%. Because lots off times you will see a profit off for ex. 30pips befor turning the other way and because the trailing stop +/- 50 pips you will go into loss. Loss because one has to wait till a bar is closed before you can react. Maybe now you think: we react not on the close but during the bar. Then all examples that I gave 75-50-42 would be a lot bigger. Al testing on exit at price give greater values then exit at close off bar. So in that case you can react during a bar but you have to realize that you would not work with a 50pips trailing but maybe with a 65pips. Beleve me there is no other way to solve this. So as long as those stops can not be toroughly tested, the only way to exit is true a discretionary way with indicators. And the disadvantage is that the rules for that can occure just 10 pips in profit and you exit and ones exited you see the price going an other 150 pips in your favor. If you use rules that would not make you exit that soon you will see that there are times that you are 50pips in profit and you'll end up with a loosing trade. I hope I don't sound to negative, I'm here only to help you and to clear out some problems. Keep this in mind...finding a rule to get OUT on tops and bottoms would make an entry rule to get IN at these tops or bottoms friendly greetings and keep up the good work ...iGoR.. PS1 the only one that I know, who could help you on those stops is Igorad. Because he can make stepstoch into Tradestation PS2 What looks like a good exit to me is when stepstoc and stepMAstoc cross...