If you've missed perfect trades setups, allowed winning trades to turn into losers, or closed trades way too early, this not your fault. You need helpers. You need some automation.

Now, don't freak out.  Automation does not have to be complicated. Automation can be simple.

Most Forex traders are not programmers, so asking your average trader to develop their own automation is asking a bit too much, isn't it?

My name is David Williams. I have made hundreds of full-fledged EA's and probably thousands of single-purpose EA's (You'll see how in a minute). My single-purpose EA's help me with everything from account management, to trailing stops, to  tackling my least favorite, super-monotonous job: "chart watching".

So here and now I'll give you my top 3 single-purpose automation tricks. I think you'll be surprised at how simple, and yet powerful they are.

I've created videos so you can see exactly how it's done.  I hope you like them ...

First trick.  Let's not lose money once a trade has shown some profit. Let’s just move the stoploss to breakeven.  

The #1 rule of trading is, and always will be, don't lose money. Sometimes a trade goes against you right away.  There is not much you can do in that situation, you just have to allow your stoploss to take you out of the bad trade for a loss :(

But more often, a trade will move around a little bit, and you'll have an opportunity to move your stoploss to breakeven.  That is, if you are watching the trade on each tick.  Stop watching. It's unhealthy to stare at an open trade anyway.  Instead, just run this "mini-robot" and let it do the watching for you.

Watch this video to see how fast and easy it is to build the Move-to-Breakeven "mini robot".

Second trick. Alerts! I love alerts. I love getting emails (or notifications on my iPhone) when something happens.

If a price breaks out, I want to know about it. (I may not do anything, but I want to know.) In this video, I build a "mini-robot" that detects a price breakout and generates an alert.  This entire EA is built in less than 2 minutes!

Third trick. Trendlines. I use a lot of trend lines. And I don’t think I find anything more boring than waiting for a trend line to be broken. (Come to think of it, I have done a lot of stupid things waiting for a trend line break)

What I love about this trick is that it's a combination of human brain power and EA automation. It's not completely manual, and it's not completely automated. It's both: This EA is an elegant combination of precision computing power and human intuition. It is massively powerful.

If you've drawn thousands of trend lines like I have, you get pretty good at it. That type of skill is hard to program into an MT4 robot.

Here is the secret: You don't ask your EA to draw trendlines.  Draw the trendline yourself and then create a really simple EA that watches your trendline 24x6  for you.  (Actually, create a few and have your EA watch trendlines on multiple timeframes and multiple charts!)

This mini-robot was built in about 4 minutes. Watch how below.

You can't afford to not use every advantage possible when it comes to trading. The MetaTrader platform is extremely popular, and it is not going anywhere.  There are absolutely no barriers to running an EA robot on the MT4 platform.  None. The platform is free. You can open a demo account in seconds and demo trade for as long as you like. EA support is built into the platform - it's not an afterthought. It works and it works seamlessly.  All you need are the tools to help you get started.

Automated trading is your friend.  All traders should use some automation.  The ADVANTAGE Club can help you from making serious and expensive errors.  At $30 a month, this club can pay for itself within one trade!  Don't lose money in silly ways.  Let some really simple EA's help you.

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