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- mikkom replied Jun 9, 2009
Two images that everyone trading dollar should be aware of. First is 10 year, second 30 year treasury bond yield. If you don't undestand what these are, google. This is important. Note how the price has gone down and has gone up although FED has ...
EURUSD
- mikkom replied Jun 9, 2009
If you have 2 sets and take their intersection, you will get fewer trades. Is this what you are asking? What you really want to know is the subset of the set that has higher probability. Other way which I assume would work (assuming both systems ...
Systematic trading
- mikkom replied Jun 9, 2009
Not related to Forex but still an essential watch. If you are just greedy, this can be viewed from the investment perspective as well if you are interested in what are the sectors you should be in the future (water, agriculture, oil etc) video
The video store
- mikkom replied Jun 9, 2009
What is PFGs commission per lot (roundturn)? I have been pondering if I should open an account with them too. Do they have any order book available for mt4? Have you checked if the liquidity is as good as with currenex?
MT4 with ECN brokers' list
- mikkom replied Jun 8, 2009
The easiest way is to calculate it yourself. Please post the distribution here after you have made it so other people don't ask the same question again. It's quite straightforward to get the data and do the calculation but it requires some work. ...
Systematic trading
- mikkom replied Jun 8, 2009
.. then it was low. I really don't remember anymore, I used the query that I had at the time open with my mysql browser and just ran it with each currency. What matters is not the exact numbers but the distribution.
Systematic trading
- mikkom replied Jun 7, 2009
Sorry I read your comment incorrectly, yes of course you can trade any timeframe - I thought you said that trading all timeframes is similar and tf doesn't matter. IMHO it matters quite a lot. I said in one reply in another matter that for me it's ...
What lengths have you taken in trading
- mikkom replied Jun 7, 2009
That is a real silly comment, higher timeframes are trendier than lower ones, capitalist88 even made a research document about this. I really recommend reading it. url
What lengths have you taken in trading
- mikkom replied Jun 7, 2009
Activtrades has guaranteed stop account. You have to pay a price for it with spread though. url
Any brokers guaranteeing stop loss protection?
- mikkom replied Jun 7, 2009
You need to prove yourself before jumping full time. When you have done that do it - before that, prove it to yourself. If you can't do it while working, you can't do it later. The emotional pressure for having to make certain amount of money will ...
What lengths have you taken in trading
- mikkom replied Jun 5, 2009
with that low amount of trades you can't know if you have curvefitted to that period. You have to use longer term data that has different kinds of markets inside the data. If you are okay with 1 min data, forextester website has csv files url I ...
Systematic trading
- mikkom replied Jun 4, 2009
Please, no specific system rules here. This thread is about systematic trading not any specific systems. If you want to discuss about specific systems start a new thread on trading systems forum. I would say that the sample size that spekkie gave is ...
Systematic trading
- mikkom replied Jun 4, 2009
Depends what you target. Note that I trade dailies. New daily candle open is a good position to close if you are targeting shorter term. Donchian channel trail is another quite good if you are targeting medium term trades, for example 5-10 day ...
Exit Strategies...
- mikkom replied Jun 3, 2009
I still have longs from 20. open and I have no plans to close them yet
edit: by the way this is probably the first time I have ever told anything about my positions at FF.EURUSD
- mikkom replied Jun 3, 2009
I also have one other protection mechanism if you are interested - when my account will hit a very large amount (let's say a million euros) I have a maximum cap on r% calculation. This means that when my account grows to over X (million in this ...
Generalized Fixed Ratio MM
- mikkom replied Jun 3, 2009
Note that I don't claim that this system is unprofitable. The curves only show what results simple rules that I specified in my posts [I might even have misunderstood something] give. With discretion this system could very well be profitable.
Tony's Two Candle trading system
- mikkom replied Jun 3, 2009
The point of 25% rule was to target the "best" bull candles to see if there is potential in the "best" setups of this system. Here are the results for the above rules (down candle, up candle, stop at +-5 from open and 20 pips tp) If a tp is not hit ...
Tony's Two Candle trading system
- mikkom replied Jun 3, 2009
This version closes at the end of next candle Note that this data is from short period (begin of 2008 to today) and therefore could be statistically irrelevant. Every trade is set to 2% risk.
Tony's Two Candle trading system