Since I too will be running a CTA program in the new year, I've done some research on obtaining clients. What I've found is investors don't want...
Rhino, I appreciate the thought. I don't plan on working with others anymore. After this year I'll be looking into setting up a CTA business at...
4 year update to the first day I went "live". I'm doing just fine. The experience with the journal was a net negative for me. I thought going...
Finally a topic for me. I increment after a loss and have found it a very good way to smooth the account equity. A few notes after years of...
If you control your Thoughts and Actions, you control your Destiny.
I'm a 4 year newbie and I did lose money my first month of real trading but since then I've done ok. Certainly well enough for the relatives to...
Don't disagree with anything you've said. I was just trying to understand where man was coming from. I'm always up for learning something new....
1). Does this have to be a production system? I have some very good ones I'm not currently trading. 2). I don't understand your money...
About the only problem I've seen with PF is that it doesn't take into consideration the distribution of trades. If a large chunk of the profits...
Ah, I remember it well. 6/9/2006 I lost $76,227.54 which was 12.3% of my accounts on 226 r/t's in the ES. Every trade I made that day went...
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I'm a manual systems trader. I've tried auto trading. It's not ready for primetime. The problem...the systems don't continuously calculate...
I've had 14 losers in a row, but my worst so far was 16 out of 18 trades. It's all part of the distribution. As long as you understand WHY they're...
I've talked to a broker that specializes in NYMEX. He told me to expect slippage of $300 r/t and not to plan on doing more than 10 contracts at a...
Bert, I gave up on charts much earlier than you. I realized I had no talent for screen trading and everything I tried looked like a...
You need to have a source of data to do much work. As far as I know all data for NYMEX markets is copyrighted and distributed under license...
Gentlemen, thank you for your valuable contribution. If slippage + comm. ends up in the .02 per-side range then I might have problems. I'm looking...
Finally, here's the TS code for the system using 30 min. bars. Hope I don't lose anyone with this complex system .:D
And here's the annual results.
In the spirit of collaboration :) , here's the summary to a system I'll post that shows how simple and easy it is to trade this market. I used...
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