Capital protection is the primary objective, profiting is only secondary objective. If i can insure myself to stay in the game indefinitely by using only 1% account size, then i secured my presence permanently in the market.So objective 1 is ...

why have you accepted the price-predictability assumption?

Ok this will be a long debate/post (everyone will attack me because of my strange ideas but oh well ), thanks for responding, i will tell you my views then. If this is the only question that is important then my answer is : Yes, you can ...

why have you accepted the price-predictability assumption?

The margin of error is proportional to the sample size, i believe there was already a thread talking about this and i responded there so might wanna check out: url url I would recommend atleast 100 trade sample on forward test no matter what, ...

How many trades until a system is proven, not just lucky?

Dream big Anyway its time to get back to topic, can you please be kind PipMeUp and respond to my previous theories, at post 909 and post 911 Post 909 url Post 911 url I made a few points there about how the market could be built up ...

why have you accepted the price-predictability assumption?

You forgot 1 important parameter, because there is the quality of trades and there is the quantity of trades.You only considered the quality of trades.You can do this by trading 1 high quality trade /day or by trading 100 less quality trades / ...

why have you accepted the price-predictability assumption?

Yes, but some traders still do this, although not how it should be done, so by covering the entire market, cos if you cover the entire market then the probability of you losing is very very small, you can only lose if the market makes a new all time ...

why have you accepted the price-predictability assumption?

Probably but not very practical, if you'd trade with a 1:1 leverage to not worry about margin call and a 5 digit broker to trade the smallest, if you'd trade 0.01 lot, the smallest lot size possible, you need 1.000.000 pip move to lose 10.000 ...

why have you accepted the price-predictability assumption?

I dont know if actually you were adressing me with that post but i will respond if you dont mind. Well we dont know if its random or not, we can never know its true nature, but we can observe only what we can sense, and the mere looking only ...

why have you accepted the price-predictability assumption?

Ok nobody here said its efficient entirely. I myself belive to be either: pseudorandom, so the structures repeat themselves, but between them are random, just by definition, so that patterns could rise, and the fact that we can trade patterns means ...

why have you accepted the price-predictability assumption?

Ok then, i will read more about spread, i had a total different view on it.I didnt really started observing it until past week so i`m sorry if i made a mistake. Not really.My words were not exactly like this.I acutally said or atleast tried to say ...

why have you accepted the price-predictability assumption?

Thats just contradictory what you said 2 posts ago.You said the spread is small when many people trade it, but since it was the end of year 2013 the markets moved less, and you said that was because nobody traded it. Then how come the spread was ...

why have you accepted the price-predictability assumption?

In this case the USD/JPY is the best ,and the second best is the EUR/USD, third place may go to GBP/USD

why have you accepted the price-predictability assumption?

It depends on the pattern or setup which you trade, a long candle can represent and will represent a breakout mostly caused by some news, which is inherent that the spread will increase.If that marubozu candle is part of your pattern, for example ...

why have you accepted the price-predictability assumption?

Ok maybe i exagerated a little bit, but still a long candle representing high volume, in average has a higher spread than any other candle type, maybe a doji is not diferent in terms of spread than other candles except the long one, but the long one ...

why have you accepted the price-predictability assumption?

Ok so we wasted enough time to figure out that the market can be predicted or not.Assuming that the majority of us agrees that price can be predicted, including me (althought i like to predict only segments of price, by patterns, because i think ...

why have you accepted the price-predictability assumption?

A doji is a no movement candle, so 99% of the time a doji candle will have low spread, while a long candle will most likely have a high spread.If my pattern would be for example a morning star with a doji in the middle, it really important to choose ...

why have you accepted the price-predictability assumption?

I know spread is sized according to volume = number of ticks / time But i dont know how it was so low even if the market moves normally.Ok except the last days of 2013, but between x-mas and last day it moved pretty much normally, with good volume, ...

why have you accepted the price-predictability assumption?

Sorry if this may sound offtopic, but did anyone noticed that the spread fluctuation was really low in the past 1 or 1.5 weeks? What can cause this? I`m sorry i must ask this, since this adds even to my predicting abilities, low spread = high ...

why have you accepted the price-predictability assumption?

Ok i see how nice you predict or try to predict the high liquidity pairs.But what about a low liquidity exotic pair like CHFTRY , can anyone predict this one? Also how unfortunate that you can still observe my "U" shaped pattern in this pair aswell, ...

why have you accepted the price-predictability assumption?

I personally trade multiple pairs so it doesnt matter what time i trade them, they are always good.Euro between 8 and 16 hours GMT, and JPY,AUD,NZD around 17 to 7 GMT, so i`m covered for the entire day Yeah, market will get back to normal after ...

why have you accepted the price-predictability assumption?