I was trading a portfolio of futures with the (very simple) Aberration long-term system a few years back. I was long 1 x EC (euro fx futures contract @ €125,000) from early 2002 till early 2005 for a gain of over 3000 ticks (futures equivalent of ...

What was your largest profitable trade?

Stops, targets & something for TradeStation 8.1 users — Good morning, all. I have not made sufficient posts to add a link, but a very generous programmer elsewhere ("TRO"), through whom I first heard of this thread, has written a couple of ...

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This has been a HUGE move.... possibly more than just a very large swing, perhaps a shift to a new dollar range against the 3 European majors (time will tell), so I would want to see all 3 - GBPUSD, EURUSD & USDCHF - signal before taking the trade ...

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Yes, indeed - thanks to fozzy (& accrete for planting the initial idea), BB and everyone else who has contributed ! J.

The Daily Fozzy Method

mrkam, I posted awhile back that I was looking at 3 different start of day times : NY session close, 0900 European start, and a custom time that was about 8pm CET if I recall (ie as late as I wanted to start entering orders)). I wanted to know if my ...

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Fozzy EA thread — Good morning, all... Speaking of additional threads, if you haven't read The Fozzy EA thread in the Metatrader section of these forums, there are some really excellent posts over & above (and including) all the hard work by ...

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Thanks for this great post, moonchild, which confirms both my gut feel and just about every system parameter test I've done (and I've done hundreds). Nevertheless, I do like to have a stop in the market, but placed at points which would invalidate ...

2006 Automated Trading Championship

new thread ? — My guess is that this thread will fizzle down to very low activity fairly fast if a new *modified Fozzy" thread is started : the original Fozzy entry rules are clear, so why split a discussion on stop and target levels between ...

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Thanks for the clarification, Jason. J.

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Jason, By 1/3rd ATR, do you mean that if you used one third of the daily ATR, rounded down, as your initial stop, most trades would be profitable ? With what exit, please ? Why would you only implement this for the trades against your solar ...

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The Entry — Hi, Prelude : my posts are about refining (= trying to improve) the original Fozzy rules, so I will post elsewhere if preferred. On the other hand, if we are not talking about improving Fozzy, why do we continue to talk about it - ...

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It's a good question, cisco. My view is to only have one of the highly correlated dollar pairs on at any one time and in one direction. However, I would take a USDCAD trade, long or short as signalled, at the same time as one out of GBPUSD, EURUSD ...

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Hi, Triton18, With the possible exception of CHFJPY, I am aiming for first target areas of at least 55 pips, so spreads are less significant than with a shorter term method. Even so, I would still prefer cable to the other majors due to average ...

Trade Correlation

Hi, Iso - just read through your interesting comments on the other thread. Do you think 100 day correlation is too short term ? It seems to me that one either has to revealuate every 3 months or so OR take a much longer view. However, there is also ...

Trade Correlation

Peter - thanks very much for the link : I managed to miss it when I searched prior to starting this thread . J.

Trade Correlation

next target : $1m per year — I'd just keep doing the "work" that I enjoy - trading for a living - get to $1m a year and then keep lowering both risk and leverage to maintain that level. J.

So your brokarage account just hit 7 figures

I've posted the same question elsewhere and have been amazed at the lack of response... maybe everyone's discussed it all before. However, we all have to make our own decisions : I continue to track all 15 pairs I have available and eyeball the best ...

Trade Correlation

60 min Fozzy — Thanks to Gee Seven & BB for (re)posting : will set up a 60 min chart on Monday & pt the London morning session. J.

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Well, PS, I can see you're a happy fellow.... The reason for this thread, which in any event asssumes everyone knows the basics of correlation, is that I see over and over again threads in which traders seem to be trading highly correlated pairs. ...

Trade Correlation