FWIW I do believe that the back test boys (and girls) can make money. And I started the thread to poke fun at them. Some interesting posts in...
The ideal, highest level playing, is unattainable to an individual. The simplified versions are readily accessible to someone who has spent months...
Five months on and I've come to believe that trading properly calls for extreme levels of skill, organization, resources. This is directly visible...
1. Nobody who is successful wastes time posting on the Internet or gives away hard earned knowhow. 2. Nobody on this site knows how to trade...
I beg to differ from the largely negative replies to the OP question. As is known, at blackjack the expectancy varies with the composition of...
Money only gets exchanged when a participant abandons his view and exits a position. Price moves (or is moved...) to induce such an event. TA...
As the thread starter let me say: I view speculation as a deception game. The game has technical and emotional components. The market is entirely...
I illustrated in another thread of mine my diffidence towards back test, automation and the rigid "set-up and SL/TP routine". If you trade...
OK Care to talk about what shocked you? - ras72
Publicly available stats indicating 75% annual basis, new mkt participants, failure rate in stocks, vs 90-95% in futures vs over 98% in forex...
Could you please provide details. I am interested in learning more. Thank you. - ras72
Order flow that is not dictated by technical considerations doesn't affect typical price dynamics. This "exogenous" order flow either cancels out...
TA provides tools for analysing price. There can be no more flaws with those than with a wrench or a screw driver. Price movement is...
Ok. My 'short' story didn't end well. I woke up to find price spiked past the 1.3746 level I was counting on. Judging by the Stops Run that ensued...
12 hours into the trading week 20131209 EURUSD opened gap up, went up, then down below previous week's high, followed by rapid move to new high....
I use my own special TA recipe and add a grain of salt. :p
It's an approach I'm working on. Difficult to estimate performance in any specific manner as dependent on implementation details and part of an...
I'm currently running a short position, average 1.3683 (20 ticks underwater now) with 33% of equity, 400:1 leverage. I've been running it for a...
I might. In a way. And here's my assessment. Martingaling blindly every 'x' ticks adverse price movement is a fool's errand. However,...
There is another way to trade without stops: Always in, continous add/reduce/reverse. It requires significant skills and low effective leverage....
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