Yes, all the time!

Do you trade different pairs w/ 1 currency in common, at the same time?

Think in terms of percentages. A large account can be blown just as fast as a small one!

The secret of how professional traders buy and sell

Instead of risking too much per trade, why not go for 20% a month average with lower risk? That compounded for 45 months will get you the $1M.

A "doable" way to take a $300 account to $1 million in 45 months

Yes, true. With that accuracy and number of trades, 12% is what you can get. But I was just saying, with the 4hr charts you can take many more trades a year but just depends on your goals.

1:1 Risk Reward Ratio - Why it just makes sense

That seems really low even for swing trading on 4hr. 12% a year is 6 net positive trades a year if you risk 2% a trade. That's pathetic if you ask me for a whole year and everyone should aim higher unless they only want 12% on their 1 million dollar ...

1:1 Risk Reward Ratio - Why it just makes sense

A university course back in 2008 got me interested in trading (stocks at first) and thats how it started for me.

Why did you start trading?

100% agree and that's exactly the sort of thing I do too. I have 2 systems too precisely for this reason - smoothing out the equity curve. And in my opinion, its probably the best way of dealing with drawdown. You cant avoid it but you can offset ...

1:1 Risk Reward Ratio - Why it just makes sense

Just my 2 cents, if you lost most of your money on just a few trades you probably were risking too much on 1 trade.

Newb looking to be pointed in the right direction

I was wondering after reading this thread, lets say the system IS random, what does this means going into the future? Will the randomness still be profitable like in the backtest?

Determining randomness in a trading system

IF your annual goals are around 15-20% a year, you can easily do it on daily TF with 1:1 with something that has like a 60% accuracy.

Taking Profits and drawdowns

Its one thing I try to work on. I tend to get nervous and fearful and hesitate after having losing trades even though from testing I know I should expect drawdowns sometimes.

How do you survive after negative trades?

Inside Bar indicator with Alarm!! — Hi Guys, Does anyone have an indicator that sounds an alarm when an inside bar forms (should be able to be used on any TF)?

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Hi, Does anyone have an inside bar indicator that also has a sound alert?? Thanks a lot!

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I think the scenario in the video would only be true if you lose vast majority of the time and have a few large winners.

When to break the 2% rule?

I dont believe in that rule. Its just a suggestion. It depends on your system. If your systems wins 30% of the time, then maybe even 2% is too much! But upto 3% is good in my opinion.

When to break the 2% rule?

I have tested a system very similar (with 5,3,3 setting) to that and got 55%-56% accuracy with almost 2:1 RR. But, the exits are not totally mechanical.

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Petra — Your returns are awesome man. Making 200-300% or more a year is awesome, especially when you consider the effects of compounding!

Make or Break Year for Petra!

Stochastics indicator — Hey, does someone know of an indicator or can code one for me where the bars get painted whenever stochastics is oversold or overbought. So, for example, if stochastics is overbought and stays above 80 for 10 bars, all ...

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The definition of achievement is different for everyone. For me, if someone does something that makes them happy and doesn't harm anyone, thats an awesome achievement for them.

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