ATF Forex Trading (swing trading signals)

[fxtrader89]

Hi everyone,

I am pleased to post some tips and trading ideas on the forum as a trader.
I would like to introduce my website http://www.atf-forex-trading.com

We provide forex signals based on a swing trading strategy. The goal is to provide a few signals a weeks, working with 9 currency pairs.
We focus on steady gross performances rather than agressive and high risk trading.

We aim to make 400 pips a month which is reachable.
A the end of the first semester, we have made 4150 pips with 100 trades. It's a monthly average of about 690 pips. Our objective was met but we work hard to always perform our trading thus our results.
June was a difficult month but we ended up positive. We expect a good summer season which often offers nice trades.

The service is provided through a monthly subscription with a free month trial. Actually, you only have to pay 1$ to test our service during 30 days. You receive all our signals by mail and sms if you provide a valid mobile phone.

We thought it would be nice to let people discover our service without paying a high fee. We know Internet is full of scams so it's important to reassure our members, letting them appreciating our traders work. When our reputation will be more "established", we might reduce or even stop the trial period.

If you want to diversify your investments, as a day or position trader, you are welcome anytime in our adventure.

I will answer any of your questions. I won't post signals here but I do give some trading tips and recommendations in the other sections of the forum (official currency pair discussion in particular).

By the meantime, take a look at our performance table with the detailed monthly statistics http://www.atf-forex-trading.com/performances.html

I wish you all nice trades on forex

Sébastien Duval
ATF trader manager
http://www.atf-forex-trading.com

[Sully]

Seriously awesome and equally useful website Sébastien

[fxtrader89]

Thank you very much Sully.
I appreciate your comment.

[fxtrader89]

July performance : +225 pips with 31 trades
http://www.atf-forex-trading.com/performances.html

It's better than June but I hope less than August

[Mike]

We aim to make 400 pips a month which is reachable.
A the end of the first semester, we have made 4150 pips with 100 trades. It's a monthly average of about 690 pips. Our objective was met but we work hard to always perform our trading thus our results.

http://www.atf-forex-trading.com

400 Pips is an excellent target, I try to tell people getting into Forex not to intentionally aim for "big wins," when they occur they occur. But I myself went through a phase where I was positive in many trades but was aiming for the sky and the trade either broke even or went against me after being in positive territory.

Two big lessons from that are to

a) set reasonable profit target levels and exit trades with them unless market is really surging in your direction.
b) try to always use a trailing stop so that when your trades go positive enough, the trade is automatically exited at a point in the event of a reversal

Anyway, keep up the good work Sébastien

[makefxmoney]

July performance : +225 pips with 31 trades
http://www.atf-forex-trading.com/performances.html

It's better than June but I hope less than August

I think it is also important on risk management. I would like to see how many % you gain as well.

If just talking about pips...I have gain over 4000 pips in July which you can found in my live trading record....I rather like to see what is risk management...

[fxtrader89]

Thank you Mike for your encouragement.

makefxmoney
Indeed risk management is also very important.
But we only propose signals and our members have to use a proper money management system that suits their requirement in term of risk aversion and so on.
We recommand to never risk more than 5% of the available balance with any trade (according to the stop loss value) and it's already an important risk.
2% seems to be a reasonable risk exposure for most traders.

I don't really get your point about pips. A pip is a pip. Every month, we agregate all our positions to get the monthly performances. If we had 2 winners with 100 pips each and one looser with 80 pips, it gives 200-80=+120 pips.
We obviously don't take into account money management which depends on each member's stratgegy and account size.

Go on making 4.000 pips a month and you will become a billionnaire soon...

[liiop]

Do you manage accounts too?

[fxtrader89]

Do you manage accounts too?

For that kind of request, please send me a pm.

[PimpOfPips]

Good to hav eyou around! Welcome

[fxtrader89]

Good to hav eyou around! Welcome

Thank you PimpOfPips

[chasev]

How many open positions do you have at one time.

[fxtrader89]

We avoid opening too many positions at the same time.
The problem with forex is that you have either several signals at the same time or nothing. This is due to the obvious correlation between the currency pairs.

The goal is to get the "gold star" among the signals which is the tricky part. Market likes to hide the big moves before they arise.

From now on, we will more than ever focus on less open positions, looking for performance rather than diversification.

I hope I answered your question.

[fxtrader89]

August results : -309 pips
http://www.atf-forex-trading.com/performances.html

Year-to-date performance : +4,068 pips

First negative month of the year. It was a very difficult month with a ranging and flat market. This is due to lack of volume and volatility during the holiday season. Last year at the same time, we had a wonderful month because of the economic and geopolitical context.

We are still on line with our objectives which are 5,000 pips a year i.e. 400 pips per month on average.

We didn't loose our time during this "bad period", thinking about our trading methods. We found a way to filter the market a little bit more, thus avoiding a lot of tricky positions.
Perfect methods don't exist of course, but it is always possible to improve a trading approach.

[Mike]

Thank you Mike for your encouragement.

makefxmoney
Indeed risk management is also very important.
But we only propose signals and our members have to use a proper money management system that suits their requirement in term of risk aversion and so on.
We recommand to never risk more than 5% of the available balance with any trade (according to the stop loss value) and it's already an important risk.
2% seems to be a reasonable risk exposure for most traders.

I don't really get your point about pips. A pip is a pip. Every month, we agregate all our positions to get the monthly performances. If we had 2 winners with 100 pips each and one looser with 80 pips, it gives 200-80=+120 pips.
We obviously don't take into account money management which depends on each member's stratgegy and account size.

Go on making 4.000 pips a month and you will become a billionnaire soon...

You are welcome. 2% is what tend to recommend to people as well in terms of risk. There's also things to consider like position size, but in terms of signal providers yes, Pips earned/lost should be the one thing that potential followers should see, followed by what else was discussed.

[fxtrader89]

You are welcome. 2% is what tend to recommend to people as well in terms of risk. There's also things to consider like position size, but in terms of signal providers yes, Pips earned/lost should be the one thing that potential followers should see, followed by what else was discussed.

In fact, position size is adjusted with the risk exposure. As you know your average stop loss which depends on your trading strategies (the longer the time frame, the higher the stop loss), you can calculate your position size according to your maximum risk exposure.

Let's take an example :
Your account balance is $10,000. Your stop losses are below 100 pips on average. If you risk 5% of your equity, you don't want to loose more than $500 which means 5 mini lots. Indeed, 100 pips cost $500 with 5 mini lots (half a contract) with the USD in base currency (EUR/USD, GBP/USD etc.). I never complicate the calculation with the crosses like USD/JPY where 1 pip doesn't worth exactly 1 USD except EUR/GBP which has a value too far from 1 USD (around 1,5 USD).

Mike, you obviously know all the maths aspect but I wanted to clarify this point for other forex newcomers

[soubanmp]

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[fxtrader89]

What is your point soubanmp ?
Thank you to not advertise in my post. You can create your own.

[fxtrader89]

Important notice

From september 1st, the trial period has been reduced to 10 days instead of 30.
It's long enough to appreciate the seriousness of our service.

For the question of performance, it's another subject. Some traders like to get performance on the long run, as we do, while others want immediate results day after day. For the last ones, we suggest they look for hyip websites or "forex magiciens" (to stay polite) offering 2000 or even 3000 pips a month.

We are running a serious business, providing an interesting service to mature investors who know what trading really is.
Mike knows exactly what I am talking about

Edit : most of our competitors do not hesitate to charge 50$ or more just to try their service one week.

[aaffxx]

In fact, position size is adjusted with the risk exposure. As you know your average stop loss which depends on your trading strategies (the longer the time frame, the higher the stop loss), you can calculate your position size according to your maximum risk exposure.

Let's take an example :
Your account balance is $10,000. Your stop losses are below 100 pips on average. If you risk 5% of your equity, you don't want to loose more than $500 which means 5 mini lots. Indeed, 100 pips cost $500 with 5 mini lots (half a contract) with the USD in base currency (EUR/USD, GBP/USD etc.). I never complicate the calculation with the crosses like USD/JPY where 1 pip doesn't worth exactly 1 USD except EUR/GBP which has a value too far from 1 USD (around 1,5 USD).

Mike, you obviously know all the maths aspect but I wanted to clarify this point for other forex newcomers

Wait, so we have to consider how much the signal providers risk on each trade now too as well as ourselves??? things just got more complicated