I'm going to try to help Neke here. Listen carefully. Very few traders can manage more then a 4x max return to max drawdown over a long period....
When NEKE started this year, he only needed to do a 30% return to produce 100k. Now he must do almost 100% return. Sobering. I won't discourage...
You are basically describing the generative method of building trading systems. It is a common method in use. The other method has been termed...
Building From Strengths: Key Concept One of my key concepts and one lesson I learned from playing poker simulations that I need to stick to my...
I did this and yes it works. But, you have to train.. it's not simply just placing placing trades without any worry of loss. The purpose is to...
What companies are offering secure/cheap virtual machines for automated trading? I'm considering to automate a tradestation strategy to C2. I'd...
I've ran analysis on many successful ES traders/systems and on average the successful traders, myself included, average around $30 per unit trade....
Human Nature You might think that the trader with the best risk/adjusted and strongest statistics offering exceptional/abnormal returns would...
market looks susceptible to flash crash event
look how ES will roll off 1 or 2 points on selling pressure then jump almost 2 point.. is that HFT screwing up the liquidity? or a sell program
I've blackish box that says 56 would be low.. not trusting it too much. I'm thinking we may trade down to 50's... I had lined the markets with...
Why its important to place the trades.... Lately, it reminded me why it is important to place the trades. The reason is that there is always...
You don't sound properly prepared nor confident in your methods. With stocks, you should run some trades at small size and see if your results are...
Here we can see my actual equity curve imported into Tradestation without my use of confidence based betting, excluding crude contracts, at the...
Toward Cyborg I've finally managed to build my "clone" system. What this allows me to do is to import all of my trades into Tradestation and...
Me: Took a loss today. Semi-experimental trade but felt like it was going to work. Trying to short with a constant risk/reward. I tried to set up...
It will vary based on instrument, volatility, liquidity etc. There are tons of ways to estimate it. The easiest is just to make sure your average...
Short taken... I'm going to let it run for the day. off to do some work. Small size.. 1 lot. risk reward about $600/$600
Looking to short 87-88 with target of 75...
Low for today should be 75ish if we break 85.. 88 is not a bad short..
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