I think that more than 1:30 leverage = gambling. I'm familiar with balance curves.. newbies are generally NOT. now brokers should not feel guilty or anything.

Is Forex Trading A Scam?

high leverage ise mant for fun/gambling period.. at least that's my conclusion. so if you give it to a NEWBIE he/she might develop a bad trading attitude and even a gambling addiction.

Is Forex Trading A Scam?

I have a confession, I discarded perfectly good systems bcause they didn't perform well in the last couple years.. to then realize they weren't well optimized. don't make my mistake... spend more time optimizing lol

Curve fitting vs optimization

changing the parameters because they didn't work well in the past 3 months is crazy. you need at least 10 years of data...

Curve fitting vs optimization

yeah it's a high risk / high return kind of investment that I do with sleeping money, even though I bet on big companies that are unlikely to fail. I have a looong term horizon, fortunately I'm still """young"""... jeez, 40 years sounds a bit too ...

Successful traders are very, very rare to find

something new yes.. like a new martingale variant ? hehehehe Ahhh mate... these markets are becoming too competitive IMO. I decided to invest some sleeping money (about 10k euro) in the stock market. If I managed to keep "sane" ...

Successful traders are very, very rare to find

I don't believe in conspiracy stuff... reality is that markets are becoming efficient.. hence why the good old systems don't peform that well anymore. apparently they still work... just returns are s**t compared to a few years ago... in other ...

Successful traders are very, very rare to find

you mean BROKERS lol.. banks don't give a damn about retail traders, that's for sure.

Successful traders are very, very rare to find

first, what is this "self" ? is it really mine, and why ? ok, ok, sorry... we have a cool saying here but I'm not sure how to translate it... "chi disprezza, compra"... basically, when you hate something, you soo want to buy it.

Quote yourself!

you are a friend A and you can say what you want, you can even call me names... but this thread is for "normal people"... you are a CHEETAH !!

Curve fitting vs optimization

yeah.. that guy... what the hell, """" sniper accurate """ entries/exits on cfds ??? the pip doesn't really matter.

Curve fitting vs optimization

Now I would like to answer to our friend who doesn't want me to make jokes.. first when I said "here" I was referring to the WHOLE forum what about his "superior approach": 3 months is not backtesting.. it's something else. what about the ...

Curve fitting vs optimization

about the role of humans in quantitative investing and the fallibility of systems I'd suggest watching this interview url

Curve fitting vs optimization

Wow, these posts from 2006-2008 were amazing h, thanks.

Curve fitting vs optimization

To make it clear. I can make a f joke if I feel so, especially on my own thread. Oh sometimes I abuse the ignore function, I'm working on that...

Curve fitting vs optimization

No but I can share the logic behind it.. I talked about it here: url and as you see I was very enthusiastic but as I said... it doesn't work with low volatility. maybe I'm missing something ? anyways... if bb up-bb down <x points place two stop ...

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That sounds very interesting, thanks.

Curve fitting vs optimization

yes everybody acts as a succesful millionaire, they come here mocking backtesting...they call us "delusional" etc. but in the end who is making money ?? ME HERE... 45 bucks! image Just kidding guys, JK, JK... jeeesus, all this seriuosness was ...

Curve fitting vs optimization

Me too .

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if you are interested, I looked for a BB squeeze to identify the consolidation.

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