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now, when i read my statement, i would disagree too i did not expressed exactly what i ment... it sounds like i think, that everything that happens is random, that is naturally not true. If something happens, there must always be some couse for ...

Enjoy the Obstacles, by Dr. Van K Tharp

hi, your have wrong setting in the modeling quality tlistbox, use "every tick" instead of "open prices only". with "open prices only" the backtesting is pretty useless for most cases. that's the reason, why you have so low modeled tics count and ...

Major problems with Strategy Tester

IMHO you should take a look at the book "Fooled by randomness". You would be surprised how many things actually happen merily by chance... yet the human brain is wired to seach for patterns in the randomness, and it often seems to find some, even if ...

Enjoy the Obstacles, by Dr. Van K Tharp

i know, that you ment automatic testing, doing it manually would be nearly impossible. i give you an analogy to what i ment with "brute force": for example i want to calculate area bordered by the sin(x) function and the x axis on interval from 0 to ...

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hi iso, maybe i written too much, and it is hard to understand my point... sorry for that english is not my mother tongue so that is a small problem too. i will try to reduce it somehow. first let me ask, if i understand your goal. in simplified ...

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it is more like 24/5 not 24/6... just do the math cheers RoBiK

Question about Forex Market Hours

first of all - when the backtestar says "no history data 'EURUSD1'" and "no history data 'EURUSD5'", then i suppose there is no 1 minute and 5 minute data for the period that you try to test - it is probable, that you are making some mistake ...

Major problems with Strategy Tester

efficient frontier — Hi Iso, i think i know what you try to achieve and i do agree, that this topic is really important... traders must be aware about how correlation can impact their results. it all falls under the money management/risk ...

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yup, that was too tight. once your stop was activated (wich happens when the currency pair trades at or beyond the stop price), your bid (at the limit price) is placed into the market. but during news bids go up so fast, that when your bid hits the ...

Canada Employment Report

i did not traded it, but i have the complete tick and also level 2 data from MBT live account. your stop and your limit price was the same @ 1.1125 ? and at what time was your entered/confirmed by the server?

Canada Employment Report

i see. your platform seems to have only limited order capabilities. i use MBT, you can see the order types they offer here.

news trading broker warning

Stop Limit — Hi trucco, what you need is called Stop Limit Order. It works like this: you provide two prices, one for the Stop and one for the Limit. When the Stop price is hit, the order becoms Limit Order with the limit price. Actually the ...

news trading broker warning

pip value — let's suppose your account is denominated in USD. generally pipvalue in the quote currency = lotsize * pipsize there are three possibilities: 1) you trade a pair where USD is the base currency like USD/XXX pipvalue in $ = pipvalue ...

How do I determine what a pip is worth?

just go to url and look for post from EFXGroup_Justin and MBT Steve (MBT/EFX employees). There is a lot of interesting reading about how actually forex brokers in general and MBT in particular work. The posting concerning the minilot trading is ...

CoesFX and MT4

I used reflector to review the code and found nothing suspicious. But i guarantee nothing

The Napster of Forex

Phil is right. There is a lot more to backtesting than most people understand. You need to know how backtesting works, if particular backtesting method is suited for the strategy that you try to backtest. You need to know how to do it right. And you ...

My New TradingSystem Need Help!

humor vs boredom — my recent research indicates, that there is some quite large negative correlation between "humor" and "boredom"

Best indicator for trend?

code security — oh, there is a fourth option: 4) run the application in sandboxed enviroment. there are two versions possible. Either you dedicate a machine (can by a virtual machine, like vmaware) to run the application, or, if you have the ...

The Napster of Forex

code security — regarding the concerns, that the application could do some nasty things, i see only three possible solutions: 1) if you have the requied knowledge, you can use tools such as Reflector to check, what the application is doing - ...

The Napster of Forex