5 MACD Strategy MISTAKES you should avoid in Trading Forex Stocks... or...

What are the MACD Strategy secrets that pro traders are using to get high win rates in Trading Forex and Stock Market?
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Since the first MACD video on the Trading Rush channel, many have emailed me about how they are getting win rates as high as 68 percent. Many are getting multiple green days in a row, but then there are few people who are only getting win rates around 50 to 55 percent. First of all, you are getting more than 50 percent win rate with a reward to risk ratio of 1.5 to 1, there are people who spend a lot of money on courses to get win rates like that. If you do the math, a 55 percent win rate with a 1.5 to 1 reward ratio, is a really good win rate to make money in trading. Of course it is not good as many of you guys are getting, and not even close to the win rate we saw in the MACD strategy video. So I compared the MACD setups with 50 percent win rates, with setups of the people getting around 60 to 65 percent win rates, and found 5 common mistakes in almost all the 50 percent setups, that are keeping them away from making more money in trading.

The first mistake the 50 percent win rate setups made, that people with more than 60 percent win rates avoided, was not following all the MACD strategy rules. In the MACD video and the videos after that, I clearly said that while backtesting, I didn't take trades that had confusing or bad entries, and you should avoid them as well. This rule was ignored by couple of people. I have taken many trades with the MACD strategy in the liive markets over the years, when I made the MACD strategy video, which was also the first video on this channel, I explained the strategy and added few rules that I personally found useful. Over the years, I noticed some downsides and advantages of the MACD strategy. So when I made that video, I added my personal rules to make the MACD strategy even more effective. One of those rules that was implied in that video was not taking trades when price has already made a big move in your favor.

One of the drawbacks of the MACD strategy, is that price sometimes makes a big move exactly on the MACD candle, or one or two candles before it.

For example, this is one of the trades I shared with the wonderful Patrons who support the Trading Rush on Patreon. In this trading setup, I did other analysis using multiple timeframes and was waiting for the MACD to give a crossover. But exactly on the MACD signal candle, the price made a big move in my favor. This makes the signal invalid, and I didn't take it because the price already made the move I was anticipating. Furthermore, even if I had taken the entry after this big candle, the stoploss would have been so big, that price would have had to travel a lot of distance to get a decent reward to risk ratio. In other words, the probability of these setups are really low, and that's exactly why I added the "don't take when entry looks confusing rule", and ignored the trades that had way too big stoplosses and other similar issues, and added 0 in profit when the entry was confusing while backtesting.

The second mistake I see a lot of people make, is using a bot or script to test the strategy. In the MACD strategy, there is a reason why I recommend setting the stoploss below or above the pullback of the trend. The pullback in the MACD strategy is really important, I will explain why in detail in a future video, maybe Subscribe to see that, and ring that notification bell so you don't miss it. In the MACD strategy we set the stoploss just above or below the pullback. Now if you can exactly identify the end of a pullback while backtesting with a bot, there is no problem. But many people find it difficult to find a pullback. And... out of space.

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