traded this week nq100 manually with real account. But didnt go with 0.05 lots just 0.01 to see how it goes. Added to account ~5% profits in 1 week. feel super comfortable with that trading volume. Very low risk. I Will check that approach more. ...

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for me is important drawdown and profit. in 1 year if I get 25% dd then I expect at least 75% profit. So my recovery factor for 1 year is at least 3. And here I dont care if that is acchieved by win reate 5% or win rate 95%. who cares? win rate ...

The brutal truth of day trading

Backtested 8 years FB swing... now with real money.. will see after 1 year... for now see how it goes in myfxbook. Again - all exposed. Here swings - allways in trade. Why? Because I was thinking... when is the best to close BUY profits? when enough ...

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i dont care about win rate.. see here FB stocks by the dips with risk/reward 1:7 (floating rr.. on average 1:7) might be even 15 loses in a row according to 8 years backtests and still profitable. Now see live trades in TE... image all my ...

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Closed with profit - added 0.6% to account. image

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SL is 13% of account. Did not hapened jet. Max dd so far was ~8%. See here myfxbook Some trades was opened for 2-3 weeks. 1 averaging level used if dip goes still deper. Closing all if SL reached.

The brutal truth of day trading

there might be people, not millionaires jet but searching and maybe found something and then share... and maybe after 5 years will be millionaires. maybe all point is to read newbies posts and maybe some bright idea will come up? who knows.. for ...

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IBM BUY at 141.80

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hi ryuryu. Noticed here in FF are at least 3 "gangs". They fight with each other (try discreditate, show their superior). 1 "gang" sell "teaching+signals", 1 "gang" sell an indicator and dont know 3rd "gang" what do. I understand that 1 "gang" is ...

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1 week done. Next week will try with live account. image here all details/history. plan.. split 1k into 10 parts. try to scale and multiply 6 times in a row: 100 to 200 to 400 to 600 to 1200 to 2400. 6 weeks. then cashout. and restart with 200 ...

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yes or... you can measure patterns fluctuations and start trade any pattern when its fluctuation is close to extreme and stop using that pattern when fluctuation reaches the median. or... make a portfolio of already existing EAs signals ...

The brutal truth of day trading

Do you see that from futures data pending orders count/volume?

The brutal truth of day trading

But still, you can trade randomness! Use appropriate statistical methods.

The brutal truth of day trading

I trade only with EAs.. but tnx to this thread tried now some manual day trading on demo account, spent about 2 hours per day, 4 days in a row this week: here results: image here some stats: image

The brutal truth of day trading

no need to sell here anything. platforms where i publish my trades have good tools for investors to filter out appropriate investment opportunities by various criteria. investors make portfolios of different kinds of signals - make proportions ...

The brutal truth of day trading

why do manual if that can be automated? I have now more than 100 automated systems working simultaneously on n accounts. I am like a bank that employs 100 traders. Each EA I develop/setup can be treated as 1 trader. In that way, I diversify risks. ...

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it might be true because you trade a demo account?

The brutal truth of day trading

this is good tnx ryuryu! yea you did it.. Aussi sells his magic PDF where he explains how to trade safely 100 lots with demo account. Peter sells his PDF where 5% a day guaranteed profit explained day by day. and yes.. they allowed to me sell ...

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saw quite interesting video here too.. this might be a real brutal truth..

The brutal truth of day trading

Today I saw this car... about 100k usd.. image ok decided to take it. But had only 1 mil usd in the account. u know.. don't like to spend that because then won't be any more full 1 mil in cash Therefore I trade ...

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