Well, every time you take trade 1, and price reaches the stage where it is at trade 2, you are effectively now risking 40 pips to make 10. So you are effectively taking trade 2 as stated on post 1, whether you like it or not. Are you sure you have ...

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I don't want you to analyse combining the r:r's. I gave the option to take both trades but I don't mean in the same sitting. If you were late to your screen and missed the chance to take trade 1, would you take trade 2?

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damn, it's different

Trader Dale - daily trading levels

Does anyone have a futures feed of euro with volume feed? I want to compare it to mine if possible, could someone upload a screen shot? I am wondering whether mt4 can show true futures volume with its vol indi or whether it is just showing tick ...

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ok ive edited the first question to make it clearer - we are assuming a profitable strategy.

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well you can rip it apart after you have read it.

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Read the thread

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I understand where you are coming from but in order to compare 2 R:R approaches accurately the sample size has to be exactly the same for both approaches and bringing in a time constraint would not allow this. But I appreciate your input.

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They don't have identical probability. They have identical profitability over a series of trades. So taking both trades you would end up with the same amount of profit over a series.

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I still don't understand how that affects this?.

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It's true that structure can be viewed in different ways and there may be an element of discretion there depending on your approach. But there is also a universal truth of structure that applies to all trading strategies; The higher a price moves ...

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can you elaborate?

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You edited a post, thats fine. Its the guy that edited and deleted posts because he realised after he'd posted that he'd got his logic wrong and then decided to say 'whatever' and try to demean the subject topic that annoyed me. You edited your post ...

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The proper answer is that I always have been and so have you and every other trade on the planet. Some knowingly but most un knowingly. As i've said rvery trade you take you goes through the spectrum of R:R from opening to closing the trade. Holding ...

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I will be yes. I only thought about this the other day and as I said in one of my earlier posts I wasn't 100% clear on it but now I am. Late entries will no longer be an issue.

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Hey 9047, Good to have a thinker in here Yes there only seems to be a few that this seems to be clicking with lol... and it also seems like no one bothered to read the thread to see that what I am saying is mathematical fact and has been laid out ...

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Lol if you are going to keep deleting posts and then pointing finger saying the math is wrong when its so bloody obvious that you cant put 2 and 2 together then please stay out of the thread.

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And here is a matrix showing you the probability of consecuitve losses depending on your win rate WHICH is in relationship with your R:R. image

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Your said: "high winrate will not save you from disaster when you're at -80%, you will need to rearrange your MM to recover the loss I', 100% sure about this. " you have a 10k account and you risk 1% per trade. Your risk to reward is 4:1. You are ...

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There is a massive hole in your logic lol i guess you changed your reply last minute when the penny finally dropped

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