Do you really think I don't know what that is?

How Much Do You Risk Per Trade?

No it doesn't, accounts can go negative so it's not different in any way to using stops. If you don't believe this, read your broker contract - ever wondered why they always ask your net worth and other seemingly irrelevant questions? [note that I'm ...

How Much Do You Risk Per Trade?

As I don't have account with MBT and their swaps can only be seen inside their software, could you (or someone else) please post a screenshot showing swaps for majors? I'm thinking of using them as my next broker (their leverage is very good) but ...

MB Trading expensive?

.. until they take 80-90% hit to their account that is.

How Much Do You Risk Per Trade?

Just a note if those are polynomial regression channels - they repaint.

EURUSD

Sure, I have quite a bit about portfolio optimization. Covariance matrix is not that hard to implement really but IMHO it's far too simplistic. If you have some fresh pointers to some relevant articles or studies please feel free to post some links. ...

Systematic trading

As this thread is mostly about quantifiable results I have to ask you have you backtested this method in non-biased way? If not, why not? IMHO only way to be sure is to test the method yourself for a long period of time - if you don't know how to ...

Systematic trading

The problem with trading against your broker is not that you are trading against him, it's the fact that they can spike their price when they want to and if you are trading OTC (over the counter) ie without exchange or regulation there is no law to ...

EURUSD

You do understand that it would mean they are trading against you? I would suggest using ETF's.

EURUSD

0.5-3% depending on strategy and some other elements.

How Much Do You Risk Per Trade?

There is nothing to understand. If you don't define maximum risk before you get into trade, your maximum risk is amount when you get a margin call. If you do have a stoploss, you are trading with risk percentage amount of your account and that risk ...

Aiming for pips or %

Percentages. Pips don't tell you the whole picture because if you calculate pips, your actual performance is not known until each of your position sizes is known. If you use a solid position sizing method like fixed fractional then your position ...

Aiming for pips or %

This is something that many people [including myself] disagree with but politics is not probably the right way to go with this thread.. It's important to note why IMF is moving to direction where it's heading. Also I personally can't see any problem ...

How To Make 1000's of Pips by NFX

IMF is trying to change that. Interesting to see where it leads. I would claim that IMF is much more secure than any even big country. At least russia and china are moving there and so is apparently Brazil Some links url url

How To Make 1000's of Pips by NFX

I think this is the final pic I'm going to post to this thread. This account was opened a little under 3 months ago, now it's doubled. This is not a demo. So it seems that this concept is working quite well as I assumed, I have been tweaking it a ...

Show your best EA

Best advise yet And I'm serious. Study, read some good threads at ff, test, study some more, read books, test systems and don't listen to and follow the crowd here. Start here for some good pointers url I would also suggest reading both ...

EURUSD

Very short period.

Show your best EA

Very good question. I think I'll take a look at this. I'm quite sure there is a correlation but I'll do a chart.

Systematic trading

Let's call 120 trade system system A 190 trade system system B This is far oversimplified but for if you want the systems to be weighted by trade count for example if you usually use 3% per trade for both systems, you could use 120/(120+190)*1.2% ...

Systematic trading