In Response to British Pound Pivot Breakout System
Thanks everyone for your kind comments. I am so glad to hear from you. I had a spam filter put on the site to filter out spammers’ comments. Your comments were waiting for me to verify but I somehow overlooked. I apologized for the delay in responding.
I don’t normally trade British Pound in my daily trading; however, I do have demo accounts set up for a few Pound / Dollar breakout systems. Over time, what I found was that the pivot breakout systems produce better results than simple breakout systems. Now, I am using Oanda demo to test, so I do not use trailing stops. The results are based on very simple set-up with protective stop loss and preset take-profit target. Stop loss also plays a very important piece in the trading system. I found that somewhere between 25 and 35 pips of stop loss produced better results in conjunction with the take-profit targets. The ratio is about 1 to 1. For example, stop loss 25 pips v.s. take-profit 30 pips, or stop loss 30 pips v.s. take-profit 30 pips. Not that I meant to change the authors’ original systems, but I was just curious as to what combinations of profit/loss ratio would change the end results.
Again, I invite you to check out these two breakout systems if you are a British Pound / Dollar fan, because I think the creators are brilliant.