Trading Systems Lab

Practical notes on EA building, MT5 testing, risk control, and market timing. Less hype, more systems.

Tip: Use short keywords like “London”, “ATR”, “spread”, “JPY”.

Four Techniques Tested, One Survived: the Tokyo Fix

We promised to test four techniques from our map and file the results, pass or fail. Three failed. One, the flow after the 09:55 Tokyo fix, held in every year since 2019, became an engine, and is now running live.

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2026/09/11

A Map of FX Techniques, and Where Ours Have Been Tested

Every family of FX technique we know of, in one table, with what our own backtests say about each: proven, rejected, or not yet tested. Two patterns stand out, and they decide what we test next.

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2026/09/10

Our Daily Signals Are Contrarian. Here Is the Study.

We rebuilt our three D1 signal analyzers over ten years and ten pairs and measured what happened next. The readings are anti-predictive: the stronger the signal, the worse the forward return. What that means for how to read the Signals page.

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2026/09/09

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How to use this blog
  • Pick a session (Tokyo/London/NY) and test one idea.
  • Use fixed risk per trade, then optimize only after stability.
  • Bookmark your best setups and keep a track record.