me too! — dang! i want in on the fun!

Trading Posters

Hey! How come my name isn't on the list? I can scribble a few zeros on my trading statement like the rest of 'em!!! :

Traders Needed for New Book!

Insightful posts turbo, are you gonna start one here? Actually I disagree on one point: I think trading is 100% pyschology. After all you can make a coin-flip system profitable with the correct money management and trader psychology. As for myself, ...

Why A Journal

Somebody was impersonating me and my avatar in this thread

Forex Scams: How to Spot Them a Mile Away

hey abo, nice to see you back man!

abob's fundies journal

i think this thread might give sidus a run for his money.

Mouteki Trading

yes i do this all the time as well - parking and elevators are what i do too. i've found that most people are lazy by nature and opt for the easiest solution where possible - in trading as in life, and that's the reason for the herd behaviour - ...

Observe!

better late than never!

The System Behind the System, by Merlin Jeffries

you've certainly given me plenty to think about here... in the meantime would you like the data since it sounds like you've got a good handle of the problem here and could do far more with it than i could... just let me know and i'll post all i ...

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this sounds like a stats problem you could solve with statistical software or perhaps even a spreadsheet (if the right functions are there)...

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yes you've understood the weighting of correlations to trade sizes correctly. the "brute force" approach you mentioned earlier is an apt description for what i would do if i were auto testing. just to see what kind of results i got back. for ...

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i agree with much of what you say, however i must admit i didn't understand all the finer details of your points! yes you can make this study as simple or complex as you like. striking that middle balance between effort and practicality of results ...

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it all depends on your frame of reference. for example what would be the "normal values"? you mention eurjpy. which pair are you correlating against? how far do you go back to get the normal value etc? short term fluctuations could reverse back to a ...

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another condensation question - could it be possible to prune this thread into a separate "lite" verision for newcomers"? once threads become "megathreads" then it can be difficult for newbies to see the relevant infor as they become buried under ...

james16 Chart Thread

Nice insight Rusty - wish I'd read this sooner. Could this also be a sticky candidate in the brokers section? Anyway the link you suggested is: http://www.cftc.gov/tm/tmfcm.htm I've pulled off the spreadsheet and highlighted a number of retail ...

MarketMakers

condensed version? — for those of us who've fallen behind on this thread is there somebody willing to summarise the current state of play with this method? the thread is nearly 1500 posts long and is too big to follow for us lazy gits...i read ...

New profitable System - Sidus

aren't you really hankering after some kind of trading plan to write your rules in? that way you can divide your rules into various subject headings and update them when necessary in the future...(there is a template in the beginner's section you ...

I Had No Idea I Took So Much For Granted

auto trade challenge! — it occurred to me that the same problem that confronts "manual-ers" will also happen to mechanical traders. namely managing correlation risk. so howabout testing these correlation tables on systems that you've developed ...

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here is the oanda data by way of comparison - enjoy folks!

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iso vs oanda — from the same date: sep 04 - who is best..?

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