Thanks for the answer, I am glad you didn't take it the wrong way.

Do YOU think EA's work (POLL)

Did you even read my post? I never stated that volatility decreased, nor did I claim to have an EA that is profitable/unprofitable. I'm curious, what is your obsession with trying to prove everybody wrong? I searched through your posts and every one ...

Do YOU think EA's work (POLL)

Volatily changes and has an impact on automated strategies.

Do YOU think EA's work (POLL)

Tech and energy stocks have been getting pumped by investors all day, could be worth looking into. For the long term I would consider buying some "discounted" ETF's, they don't get hit as hard when the market takes a fall. If I were to be buying ...

Emerging stocks- anybody buying for the long term?

I wasn't trying to prove anything, I was citing material from a book that has researched patterns and their failure rate. In my quote it states that head and shoulders have a 5% failure rate, which is very low.

'Try to Lose Money' Experiment

There is a completely technical way to set stops and take profits when dealing with these patterns, if there wasn't, they would cease to exist. If you don't know how to interpret them correctly then I would suggest reading the above mentioned book.

'Try to Lose Money' Experiment

For anyone who is interested, or too lazy to do their own research. CHART PATTERN FAILURE RATE ref: Enclopedia of Chart Patterns by T. N. Bulkowski PATTERN FAILURE RATE % DOUBLE TOPS 65 DOUBLE BOTTOMS 64 HEAD AND SHOULDERS BOTTOMS 5 HEAD AND ...

'Try to Lose Money' Experiment

In my opinion if you can't trade a demo account seriously and consistently profit from your trading than it is a waste of time to trade real money. Trading micro and mini accounts under capitalized do nothing more for trading psychology than blindly ...

When do you know you ready to go from demo to real trading?

Start trading real money when you have a consistantly profitable trading strategy that has proven it's results in back testing and live testing.

When do you know you ready to go from demo to real trading?

This is a huge advantage and does give retail traders an edge to those that always have to display a bid/ask. Although, I'm not sure how much it really cancels out the many disadvantages that we have.

The 2/1 risk/reward MYTH...

Can you show me where it has ever been written to base a trade solely on risk/reward? I think your own misinterpretation of the material you were reading has lead you to this pointless conclusion.

The 2/1 risk/reward MYTH...

And if your mathmatical edge requires that you have a better than 1:1 risk to reward? Then what? What about a 30% edge? Like trend following systems. Do we just throw these out the window despite their profitability because you feel that risk to ...

The 2/1 risk/reward MYTH...

So what is your point? It matters when it matters but not when it doesn't? I guess I'm missing the "lesson".

The 2/1 risk/reward MYTH...

Your confusing random entry with applying an edge to better than average opportunities. What is meant by this is that you find your edge and then apply it to the best opportunities in the market, meaning opporunities yielding more than a 1:1 risk to ...

The 2/1 risk/reward MYTH...

We get your point Mr. Anti America. Is there a need to spam a trading board with your highly subjective opinions?

What had happened to US Dollar on 9/11

From what I read in your post your points consist of... 1. 200% return every 3 months is possible. 2. You need to have confidence to "bet" everything on a single trade in order to take trading more seriously. No offense, you were probably well ...

When to Take Profits?

Everybody has there limit in the amount of drawdown they can take before it becomes a problem for them psychologically. If I know that taking a 25% drawdown will bring me twice the amount of return, then I am willing to accept that and not let it ...

Random entry proves strength of money management.

The purpose of the post was not to give out a system.

Random entry proves strength of money management.

I know several people who trade the way you do, it really comes down to your system and how the position sizing affects it. Have you used the adaptrade software? It gives you the opportunity to adjust your system to several built in position sizing ...

Random entry proves strength of money management.

haha, thats hilarious! I've never heard that before!

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