Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Trying something new

Wow! I can't believe my last post was in January! I'll make sure not to let too much time pass between posts from here on.

Anyway, you probably noticed that Forex Set and Forget has not been producing profits in the last few months. Something changed in the markets the last several months and now the robot is useless until I get around to overhauling it, which will probably never happen.

But fear not, my dear reader friend! I have a *much* better robot now but it's not for sale. Instead I will be providing trade signals as soon as I find a decent service that lets me do it. Right now I am experimenting with ZuluTrade and Rent-a-Signal.

I can tell you right now I'm not liking ZuluTrade very much because they count profit in pips. My new robot loses much more pips than it gains, but earns much more money than it loses. Because of this, ZuluTrade makes my robot look like a complete failure. However, I rather like the look of ZuluTrade in general, so if I can make it work then I might use them. Another nice thing about them is the fact that they give you a choice of about 7 brokers that you can use for autotrading.

Rent a Signal seems to be good too but for me the look is not as attractive as ZuluTrade. However, they calculate profit in both pips and dollars, which works good for me. The main problem I have with them is (from what I can tell) they only support one broker for autotrading. This is the one I will likely go with.

I have my signals already set up on both right now, but ZuluTrade will not allow you to subscribe to a signal provider until they have at least 30 closed trades recorded. I am not quite to 30 trades yet as of this writing. Click the links above to see my stats on either or both.

One more thing...

If you have paid for Forex Set and Forget, I have not abandoned you. These new signals are provided for free as long as you open a live account through the signal provider and set it up for autotrading. But don't throw away your copy just yet because Forex Set and Forget may start working again in a few months. It may be that a new optimization will get it working again for another year or so.

1 comment:

Tony said...

One of my subscribers mentioned to me today that Rent-A-Signal does not accept US customers. I did not know that. :-(

For now I will continue to use them while I look for a service that allows US residents.