the trades that have gone 2:1 and stop out are not painful.........its the 4 and 5 to 1's that get stopped out if you are trailing with a big number (say a 40 period MA) that get a little annoying from time to time Having a positive EV makes you ...

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anti-martingale all the way

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Um, how did I get emotionally involved? I think you may be reading a little too much into my post................

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Sorry, I forgot to quote the message i was making reference too. People were talking about appropriate position sizing and I was saying that even with at 1000 dollar account and playing 10 cent pips, you can still be risking too much relative to ...

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Account size — The truth is that even with a 1000 dollar account and playing 10 cent pips, there may be some trades that see you risking more than 1 percent of your capital But that is part of the fun of learning............. I say this as I ...

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DIB thoughts — Something I noticed from both PC charts and others when taking dibs. Not sure if this has been mentioned before, but there are 7000 posts........... Say for example its a down day - you get an inside bar and are going to go ...

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Hey there......... — let me state firstly that, no, we are not related I currently trade FSP (Joel's concept) and have just added DIBS to my plate. Having used another strategy that requires infinite patience, DIBS looks like a walk in the ...

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DIBS Thoughts....... — Having read through all of the DIBS postings.....at least the good ones. I have a few thoughts I would be most interested to know if the people who had back tested the system had build in the whole concept of the hot ...

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im confused.... — why would you need m1 data specifically to test this. I know that you would need lower timeframe data for sure - to see what came first - the higher high or lower low, did the SL number get hit before or after the entry, ...

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Thanks for the input. I decided to follow the rules exactly and close out the trades. As for this week, because my stops on some pairs were really wide, I just reduced my risk across the other pairs with smaller stops, and transfered the reduced ...

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I've been toying with a similar issue — I had a good week last week - across 3 pairs - gained about 747 pips across 3 pairs - put 8.5% on the portfolio. As a result this week, my stops and entries are really wide. Wide enough that on 2 of the ...

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Here is a hint....... — follow the rules............... The most basic premise of any good system is not profit maximization, but risk minimization - this is done by setting trade criteria that is quite strict so that trade opportunities are ...

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money management — I have been reading about FSP and am thinking of using my existing MM strategy - I get the feeling it is similar to Joel's For my other approach, I keep a running total of the aggregate wins, losses etc...from this I can ...

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leave off = adjusted.............

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more on goldman.... — "Hey, all you idiot thieving liars at Goldman Sachs – maybe you paid back the $10 billion of welfare money you begged for from the TARP bailouts…but before you pay out a single dollar in bonuses to anybody at your ...

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....i had a crappy december........so I'll just leave that off.............

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people are just noticing that orphan month now huh........funny how that works

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you can slag many people here.......mal isnt one.

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are you looking for another upthrust in the 8103 region and then short after that using the value zone concept?

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