Dear RoI, very impressed with your work and your journal. Its high quality professional way of doing it, and especially impressive since you...
congrats on your success :)
look at commodities even gold and silver sold off yesterday. Sure sign of "forced liquidation" - same thing that happened in 2008. Will it...
% risk should be a function of expectancy and PF. So even though at the outset 6% risk might sound relatively high, for a high sharpe system, it...
between 3% and 6% on systematic trades. Discretionary trades between 1% and 4%. Also, I have decided to run a "pure discretionary" paper trader...
hedgefundtrader, just a suggestion. sometimes your computer clock is few seconds different from your broker's/data provider clock. So, if 1...
yes Hurricane, they denied me. Too bad.
fishing, any word on compensation from ib yet?
After this experience (I currently have a 50% DD after 1 week of trading), I have decided to implement below rules for the next 6 months (to save...
I will update the journal every week or maybe even every 2 weeks, as anything below that will be daily noise and won't result into a trend. Time...
they should payback compensation. Being not able to trade due to no actual liquidity in a market or a terrorist attack somewhere is anothing...
SNB intervention ???
yes me too still waiting for their answer. IB has admitted that there was a communication problem between them and their LPs. They are still...
SNB is not going to intervene till the time uncertainty lasts (debt deal in senate, rating cut, and Italy's, Spain's yields). The statements are...
Where is it supposed to go ? Daal, do you have a target range in mind ? It seems to me that this move from 1.50 to 1.10 for EURCHF which...
+1111111 Very apt observation :)
Don't know very specific economics behind swiss, but logic says that when SNB thought it proper to defend 1.50 because it was affecting the...
bump....anyone experienced the same problem
I was thinking about going long either of the above pairs. Reading your post has convinced me that it is the time to go long Eurchf for a...
Now I am able to trade....Did anyone experience the same problem ?? cant get to ib tradedesk yet.
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