You are correct, it is completely and utterly pointless. Hanover has written many long and eloquent posts explaining the futility of 'nedging', only to get a bunch of crap back from idiots. The one positive spin-off from all the utter bullshit ...

What's the point of hedging?

Do you realize a 'quantum' is the smallest possible increment allowed by nature?

Newbie Traders: Trading Advice from Someone With Balls

I would think the rational for using one over the other is slightly more complex than that, both are fully functional database products in wide use and as such the decision is more about how each meets your own particular usage cases, as opposed to ...

MYSQL or PostgreSQL

You aren't the only one...I've noticed a few of the better posters are not posting anymore.

The truth about trading

I fear you have drastically misunderstood my point, but if it works for you, all good.

Stop fooling yourself; There is no system

Thank you for the complement, 'High-C++' may be a better nick-name. I know what you say about programmers, they are 'special' personalties, but I would want to say too much as I would risk being a unself aware hypocrite

Stop fooling yourself; There is no system

At the say the bottom of the range, the odds are in your favor for the price to go higher as the odds of getting a number in the middle of the distribution are greater that getting another 'outlier', this is basic stats. Markets are never this ...

Stop fooling yourself; There is no system

Classic Forex Factory response, did you even read the article? I give up.

Averaging In

This is true, this difference is why we can have an entry edge in 'noise' which doesn't exist in a coin toss, I don't want to belabor this point but it is really worth thinking about, is the market Gaussian, if not can we make it Gaussian? (or ...

Stop fooling yourself; There is no system

The last thing these guys are is guessers, this is worth thinking about as I am providing you with objective and useful information (as much as you can trust some guy you don't know on the internet) which you are choosing to dismiss (as you are free ...

Stop fooling yourself; There is no system

It's good to see you have finally realized that Fibonacci ratios as applied by 99% (actually make that 100% ) of people here are brain dead, but the above statement is demonstrably not true, I know highly successful traders (profitable for 10 ...

Stop fooling yourself; There is no system

One has to be careful with semantics here as the general statement is not strictly true, one can setup edges in random walks depending on what type of random walk it is. For example: a Gaussian random walk with no drift could be traded in a RTM ...

Stop fooling yourself; There is no system

You should read this, url . It's an argument about scaling in which doesn't require pages of irrelevant math.

Optimized Risk vs Reward Equation

You can't predict how you are going to get slipped, if you want to control the entry price use limit orders.

Slippage direction

The posts are a bit opaque, but I got the overall impression that he wanted to test his order logic in the weekend. Oh well, either way, he's got some answers

Weekend MT4 Demo server

I don't understand what all the angst in this thread is all about, the OPs question is perfectly valid. I replay stored data all the time to test trading logic, in response to the OPs original question, though it is not a MT4 solution, Ninjatrader ...

Weekend MT4 Demo server

url Quote: "After studying for most of 2009, I am about to embark on real live trading." I'm sure it only gets more complicated from here...

Coin tossing and random entries

More comedy gold from the forum that keeps on giving.

Coin tossing and random entries

Yes. The inference from my first answer is you can't, losses are just part of the game. BTW, IMO this is all just common sense.

Taking full responsibility for your trading