Thanks for your comment. You are obviously right, that macro factors are really important, especially in the short to medium term. But when it comes to long-term moves, I believe only two things are relevant: interest rates and QE. Everything else ...

Forex and value investing

sorry, my bad, thought it just shows a backtest.

FF "Rags To Riches" Millionaires!

unfortunately one can curvefit everything. Even a simple supposedly random system can be curvefitted to show insane equity curves. You guys should study some statistics and get some reality back. To do proper statistical work is amazingly difficult. ...

FF "Rags To Riches" Millionaires!

wow man, you are so smart. I hope you are a lawyer or something, cause your conclusions are as sharp as the sun is bright.

FF "Rags To Riches" Millionaires!

!Haha, that's a good one!

FF "Rags To Riches" Millionaires!

wow, I wonder what other pets could do..., anybody having a pet that can do 30% an hour?

FF "Rags To Riches" Millionaires!

oh, if it's only 30% a month then it's perfectly doable. I already thought it's much more, but 30% a month, even my dog could do that.

FF "Rags To Riches" Millionaires!

totally agreed. You gotta have an edge. Either you are faster or smarter, but you have to have an edge, otherwise you will not make it. As for finding professional traders with long-term profitability. There are many out there that have written ...

FF "Rags To Riches" Millionaires!

you do realize, if you could pull of a 2% a day consistently over only one year (assuming 52 weeks x 5 trading days) =260 trading days, then you would get a 17,120% return on your money. That's more than what the S&P 500 did over the last 50 years. ...

FF "Rags To Riches" Millionaires!

it's losing not loosing

How to Cope with a Losing Streak

great man, if you have all the proof then do it. However, due to lack of further information about your strategy I believe you will be like the thousands of other forex traders who claimed such things and have come and gone. Maybe they are now all ...

FF "Rags To Riches" Millionaires!

I've never heard such a bullshit advice. Maybe you should stay at the rookie forum.

How to Cope with a Losing Streak

Well, first of all congratulations for your 30% in September. And I find it great that you had that october experience, cause what does trading come down to? Protecting your capital. If you have a lot of September and October months then guess what: ...

How to Cope with a Losing Streak

This is win% and loss%. Sorry, but I am not here to teach basic high school maths. If you can't do such basic calculations then maybe trading is not for you.

Tools to analyse trades

no, just first-hand experience

Trading psychology - Share what has helped you the most

So then let's assume you have 5 trades: 3 are in profit, 2 are in a loss - 3/5 = win-rate; 2/5 = loss-rate the 3 profit trades made 100$, 200$, 50$, the 2 loss trades made -50$ and -100$, average P/L = (100 + 200 +50 - 50 -100)/5 same goes for all ...

Tools to analyse trades

sorry I really don't understand. you don't know how to build averages? and make percentage calculations? are you for real?

Tools to analyse trades

Patience is the most important psychological trait.

Trading psychology - Share what has helped you the most