You must be reading my mind I just found this quote from good old Ed Sey Seykota again in my hunt for a solution that would keep the addons principle but adjust risking less after 2 or 3 addons. He offered the advice....."Pyramiding instructions ...

Reverse Engineering a Profitable System (REPS)

I agree FerruFX but we are all different and I have to be honest with myself so I know "I shouldn't" but with risking 50% of, in my cheery picked experiment I'm made of weaker stuff I guess

Reverse Engineering a Profitable System (REPS)

Things looking well so far spiderman. Interested to see if you can get a few addons running with compounding. I did some maths on a 4 hr chart with a cherry picked perfect trade just to see how it "could" make a difference "if" I could apply the 50% ...

Reverse Engineering a Profitable System (REPS)

Copernicus I read the full thread a few days ago so am I right in thinking you mentioned something about have a swing approach within the overall major trend you are riding. Especially at the end (though i appreciate only hindsight can see that) ...

Reverse Engineering a Profitable System (REPS)

One last thing, don't know if this contains the n% of profits/addons info but it should be interesting reading if you like me love all things risk and MM url

Reverse Engineering a Profitable System (REPS)

Spyderman, thank you for this thoughtful, considered and risk controlling approach. I have a similar daily system that quite closely follows your approach but using the supertrend instead of your DC. Like you to I'm in the mid-stages of tidying up ...

Reverse Engineering a Profitable System (REPS)

You mentioned over trading C-12. I thought about this with this method and realised it would be very easy to have too many limit orders sitting at good set ups over a range of pairs but if you had a large movement for example in the euro most or all ...

C-12's Supply, Demand and PA thread

C-12, Outstanding trading my friend, enjoy the weekend. With what looks like a very healthy Risk/Reward on the trades you posted and just accepting the losses when they come things look very promising for you. I know a guy who has a 38% win rate ...

C-12's Supply, Demand and PA thread

yipppeeee thats a bucket load of pips on the weekly I see also on some charts you add to trades that are going your way (I like that a lot and "try" to do it as well). Do you have a rule for that? For example do you have to be so many "R" in ...

C-12's Supply, Demand and PA thread

C-10 Some great trading there. Yes the losers but thats trading. I notice you scale in your entries as price goes against you .....but.....you wisely will take your loss at your predefined stop loss. Some people on forums rail against this averging ...

C-12's Supply, Demand and PA thread

C-12, Would you mind saying what sort of SL in pips you would use on the chart above on the 2 lower enteries. Thanks

C-12's Supply, Demand and PA thread

Had a close look at the Money Management/risk/postion sizing information in the links uberteh pointed to: http://www.forexfactory.com/showthread.php?p=7109613#post710961 3 http://www.forexfactory.com/showthre...34#post7097034 Yes this is great work ...

Risking a n% of profit from previous winning trade on next

Thanks uberteh for the links and looks very interesting and on the same idea as I've been pondering. And pipmeup this is great and thanks so much for taking the time to make the spreadsheet for me. This will give me lots to consider.....

Risking a n% of profit from previous winning trade on next

Well done c-10, I'm delighted for you! May you have many more days like this, even better days. Thanks for the inspiration.........

C-12's Supply, Demand and PA thread

Infest you say you watch 10 pairs. Would you on the 60min TF for example be comfortable with taking short positions on both the eurusd and the gbpusd as both are closely correlated? Or would an open position on one of them keep you out of the other ...

C-12's Supply, Demand and PA thread

How do you fancy doing some maths tutoring on an old codger like me....LOL Well what can I say. Thank you seems trite for so much detail and help but its the best I can do. I really do appreciate you explaining this for me and now I going back for ...

Rags to Riches in 10 or 20 Trades - Simplicity at its finest

@betterlife I'm very interested and thankful for your maths skills. Its just that I simply do not have a well oiled functioning maths brain So if is not too much trouble I would appreciate it greatly if you could convert your findings into ...

Rags to Riches in 10 or 20 Trades - Simplicity at its finest

ahh, thanks for that. Yes it all depends on your MM and risk controls. Just a bit like fire, it can burn, disfigure and destroy in the wrong hands or bring heat to a cold damp room, or clear stubble from a barren field to promote growth, or tasty ...

Rags to Riches in 10 or 20 Trades - Simplicity at its finest

@venzen could you or someone please give me a link that explains what the "grid martingale" means/is? I've never come across that terminology before.....thanks

Rags to Riches in 10 or 20 Trades - Simplicity at its finest