Zero To a Million: 15-Minute Chart Forex Trading Strategy
SPECIAL REPORT: Jackโs โZero to a Millionโ, 15-Minute Chart Forex Trading Strategy
To become a successful forex trader, you will need to develop a long-term trading strategy. A good forex trading strategy will position you to pursue strong returns, while also protecting you from various risks.
Do this using our 15-minute chart forex trading strategy!
One of the reasons forex traders can trade at such high volumes is leverage. Leverage helps traders take a small amount of money and turn it into much more. It is not uncommon for forex trading leverage to equal 100:1.
Of course, anyone who hopes to make a million dollars via forex trading is going to need to be patient. Even the best forex trading strategies will take time to come to fruition. Patience, trading discipline, and a willingness to cut your losses will all be very helpful.
However, despite the risks of forex trading, there exists a significant earning potential. Countless forex traders, using tested trading strategies, have turned a relatively small amount of money into a million dollars, or even more.
Right now, Iโm revealing what my trading strategy is for the โMillion Dollar Forex Journeyโ account! If you want to see an additional strategy you can try out our profitable double trend trap strategy.
To recap:
- Weโre going to make a million dollars (or more) through forex trading.
- Weโre going to do it in 18 months (or less).
- Weโre going to start with next to nothing, $50.
Iโm going to give you the basics of my trading strategy today. Then Iโll share more details about it in future follow-up articles.
This strategy IS designed to consistently offer excellent risk/reward opportunities. When executed with a modest amount of intelligence, lucky for me thatโs all it requires, should consistently produce winning trades. The trades will outnumber and outpace losing trades. Here is another strategy called, Time-Based Trading Strategy.
My 15-Minute Chart Forex Trading Strategy
HERE IT IS. The deep, dark, mysterious, intricate, and secret system. It was worked out by an ancient Chinese Taoist sorcerer. It was kept closely guarded for centuries by inscrutable Zen currency traders:
Open a new chart, set the time period to 15 minutes. Load 3 EMAs (exponential moving averages) โ the 5, 10, and 50 EMA. When price and the 5 and 10 EMA lines all cross above the 50 EMA line, buy. Or, conversely, when they all cross the 50 EMA line, sell. I know, I know โ the complexity of it is staggering, right?
You can also add the 21 and 35 moving averages โ as well as the 100 and 200 SMAs (simple moving averages). Just for higher time frame reference โ but the 5,10, and 50 provide the basic trading strategy. I use EMAs weighted to the close โ but thatโs my personal preference.
Iโve adjusted things a bit to my own personal trading style. But the credit for this outstanding strategy goes to a friend and fellow trader, Clay Ferrell. He was nice enough to share it for free at the Forex Factory forum. You can read more here, โTrading Systems CHOROS System.โ But fair warning, there are 500+ pages of discussion โ and thatโs not even the original discussion thread.
The original rule is to enter on the first retrace touch to the 10 MA. After price and both MAโs have crossed over the 50 MA. However, I often enter when the price has crossed and made a 15-minute candle close past the 50 MA. I do that because Iโve found that price itself is a better indicator than any moving average. And because patience is not one of my virtues.
The initial stop loss shouldnโt be more than 10 or 12 pips, at most, below (or above, in a sell trade) that 50 MA line. It shouldnโt be more than 10-12 pips away from your entry point. One of the main strengths of this strategy is its low risk.
The theory behind this strategy is that once that 50 MA line is crossed by all three โ price, the 5 MA, and the 10 MA โ the 50 MA line should hold as the support/resistance. It works best when the 5 and 10 Mas are both rising at a fairly steep angle. The 10 MA line should continue to rise (in a buy trade), and also act as initial support for the price.
Eventually, the price will come back through the 5 and 10 MA lines and test either the 35 or 50 MA line. The FIRST time this happens, the 50 MA will usually hold. That is, there probably wonโt be a 15-minute candle close significantly (i.e. not more than 4-5 pips) to the other side of it.
And often price will just touch the 50 MA line and immediately bounce off of it. The game is often over the second time that the 50 MA is challenged. Itโll give way, price and the shorter moving averages will all decisively cross back over it in the opposite direction.
This is a short-term trading strategy and itโs important to move your stop aggressively once you have a profit of about 10 pips.
It is better to get stopped out with just a small profit than to let a profit turn into a loss. Many times, Iโve been stopped out with a small profit. I initially wished I was still in the trade and am tempted to jump right back in. But an hour later, I end up thinking, โBoy, I was sure lucky to get out with a profit on that.โ
Below is a screenshot of a 15-minute chart showing movement both above and below the 50 EMA line. Note how once thereโs a significant move above or below the 50, the 10 EMA tends to act as support/resistance.
And hereโs another โ note the pin bar that precedes across up and over the 50 EMA, that could then have been ridden for a very nice profit.
I urge you to set up your own charts with the three moving averages and watch the market action for yourself.
Thatโs my basic 15-minute chart Forex trading strategy.ย Of course, itโs not quite that simple in actual trading and thereโs a bit more to it than that, too much for me to cover in the space of one article.ย Iโll provide more rules and trade filters for using the strategy in upcoming articles, so stay tuned.
Believe it or not, if we can simply average catching one good trade a day with this strategy,ย we will make it to our goal of a million dollars in 18 months or less.
1 โ Learning.ย You have to become an expert in your business, and thatโs certainly true if your business is currency trading.ย You need to put in the time and effort to always be learning how to improve your trading.
2 โ Patience.ย Starting a business with less than $100, and making a million dollars in less than two years sounds fast.ย And it is.ย But it can seem oh so slow in the beginning.ย When youโre only seeing $5 or $10 profits, it doesnโt feel like youโre getting anywhere.ย
You want to be already up there making the โbig coinโ.ย But you simply have to steel yourself to be patient, to be content with gradually increasing your equity.ย Just averaging small daily profits will make that million dollars a reality.ย You might even try reminding yourself every day you make a small gain, โIโm doing it โ Iโm making a million dollars.โ
3 โ Diligent adherence to a good, solid trading strategy.ย Itโs amazing how many traders discard a basically sound strategy just because it has a few losing trades.ย They forget all the times it worked wonderfully.ย No trading strategy is going to work every time โ nothingโs perfect.ย But Iโve found that a number of times when I thought, โOh, this strategy doesnโt workโ, Iโd often lost money, not because of the strategy but because Iโd departed from the strategy.ย
For example, sometimes Iโve jumped the trade too early, getting in as soon as the price moved across the 50 EMA line โ I looked back later and saw that there was never a 15-minute candle CLOSE across the 50 EMA โ Iโd violated the rules of my own strategy. The trading strategy wasnโt at fault โ I was.
MUCH MORE TO COME:ย Iโll be back next week with more information on my basic trading strategy (and on another one, Iโll be using) and how you can follow the progress of the Million Dollar Forex Journey account, seeing each trade I make.ย As always, I welcome comments, suggestions, prayers, and gifts of chocolate and liquor.
Thank you for reading!
Please leave a comment below if you have any questions aboutย Zero to a Million, 15-Minute Chart Forex Trading Strategy!
Hi Jack, thanks for the great article. Just wanted to say that I like your strategy because I also use EMAโs for mine ๐ Totally agree that with the 15 min world, you want to be tight with the SL indeed. Thanks for sharing!
Hi Chris! (waving) I love EMAs โ Iโve always preferred them to SMAs, even though thereโs probably not often a great deal of difference. Yes, getting good entry points where you can run tight stops is very important here.
Awesome! I share your enthusiasm ๐
I decided to test this out, so I put $50 in an account this morningโฆand two trades and about 4 or 5 hours later, Iโd doubled it to $100.
Now Iโm stuck with, โGreaat, how do I pull that trick off again?โ ๐
Jack now all you have to do is pull out that $50 you made and then this experiment is at least totally paid for.
HmmโฆI hadnโt thought of that.
Nahhh, I think Iโll just double down. ๐
โฆAnd the funny part is (well, one of many funny parts), I was trying out a new trading platform that Iโm not really familiar with, and I kept entering orders wrongly and having to re-enter them.
P.S. attached my morning trading face
Iโm glad the 13th didnโt fall on a Friday.
Not that Iโm superstitious or anything.
Jack<โ (rubbing lucky rabbit's foot)
Good Job on doubling already Jack and good luck with this venture.Will be keenly watching this. Are you going to post screenshots for people to see or an ongoing commentary?
I was fortunate. Just one of those days where I nailed everything.
Thanks for your good wishes.
Hi Jack, Totally awesome results already. I hope youโll tell us how much of your account you risk and how you manage the trade. Iโm ready to make my million!!
You have coffee??? My new best friend!
Yeah, thereโs just too much to fit into any one article, so I plan to do a weekly column here on this providing additional information. Iโll be examining trades Iโve made, and hopefully those examples will help you get a clearer idea as we go along of exactly how this strategy works.
Where are the trades? Do you have fxjunction? Is there a page with chart entrys to prove this works? What sessions are you trading? How many hours are you sitting waiting for the 5 10 cross? Thx for the time and good luck Jack. You maybe my new here.
Tomi โ Watch for the next report (later this week) for info on where you can follow this at MyFxbook. I trade primarily the NY morning session, but sometimes (often Mondays and Fridays) trade the London session. Occasionally I take a flyer in the Asian session, but only rarely.
Hi Jack,
First of all thank you for clearing my anxiety that what kinda strategy you going to use and honestly I was hoping that you should use moving averages, and here you go moving average it is. Well I was trying recently or you can say comparing SMAs VS EMAs. but yet im still little confused. I hope moving along with you I will learning the applicable difference between sma and ema. Concept wise im clear.
Getting back to your strategy I have done the basic system that you proposed. laid out all the EMAs and SMAs and im looking at the trades we are getting if we back track the strategy. well when price has moved more than the average or I should say significantly then trade is much better but during range bound market or when price moves in small ranges its hard to find any trade. So are you suggesting until and unless there is not a clear breakage we should not trade ?
Like you said more details will follow so I guess you better hurry up ๐ cant wait for more details. By the way except your follow up articles on your journey of becoming millionaire are you putting up some page or going to use some resource where we can following you while trading live or anything like that or are you planning to give signals for market entry exit ?
Just a suggestion if there is anything more interactive can be setup then I guess it will be very helpful for you and for us as well in terms of learning. Overall I am really looking forward to follow you on this journey and Most of all congrats on doubling your money in first day its amazing I must say. Good luck to you
โ during range bound market or when price moves in small ranges its hard to find any tradeโ
Thanks for your comments, Ayaz, and yes, it is difficult to find a trade in range-bound markets when the moving averages are just pretty much flat-lined, but itโs very rare to see a trading session that doesnโt afford at least a couple of good opportunities.
And yes, Iโll be addressing that and other issues in future reports here.
Hey Jack I think you have a lot of people waiting to see the next post here as am I. a great tool is skype to do a live trading group/hang out. love the idea waiting to hear from you.
DB โ Next report should be out by tomorrow (Friday, the 21st). Iโll consider the Skype idea โ thanks for the suggestion โ but Iโm a recluse by nature. Like Jesse Livermore, I tend to stay hidden away in my private trading office during market hours. Also, Iโm a technological moron โ My skill level doesnโt extend much beyond using Microsoft WORD to write these articles. But Casey and I have talked about setting up some sort of open forum in relation to this project โ itโs largely a question of time โ at the moment Iโm trading all morning and scribbling all afternoon.
Jack what ever happened with this?
On re-set number 35 or soโฆstill plodding along.
whatever happen with this? Is it blogged else where?
Did you ever get some more details on this experiment?
Please share if you didโฆ.
I would tweak the system a little, but that is just me!
I would only have the 3 MAโs & one other indicator!
That indicator would be vital to spot incorrect entries.
Have you determined an appropriate indicator? Interested to hear. Thx.