Have made some primitive "AIs" (Neural Networks) EAs... can download one here and play arround. It's not self-learning... but trainable EA. Self-learning would mean implement in EA self-optimization - that's MT5 v2 - you have to build all Strategy ...

has anyone EVER seen a successful trader/trading system?

Agree on - thats not very "important" in the longterm. Look at any strategy for entry/exit as a fluctuating process. On average (for "normal" entry/exit strategy) risk/reward 1:1 will give 50% +/- profitable trades. Risk/reward 4:1 will give 80% +/- ...

Do you manage losers and let your winners run?

You need an EA using this indicator then backtest 10 years and get % of valid signals. Then can see full picture. Now with eyes you see fragmented perspective. Only EA backtest can give answers... about past but not future.

The riddle... If You solve this, we will be rich

Time is the most valuable asset. Never mind... just asked before dig deeper in 3000 pages... do what you want.

Daily Trading Ideas

Some Trade explorer would bet enough..

Daily Trading Ideas

How do we know your successs?

Daily Trading Ideas

I'm a coder. When I see any "promising" strategy... which performed great 10 years... I view it as an investor. I view any strategy as "just another business opportunity". It's like investors viewing regular companies how they performed in the ...

How can an "edge" wear off - Shouldn't it be the opposite?

Made optimization for 2010 - 2019, then forwardtest 2019 - 2020 and here question - what is good or bad? image From 2010 - 2019 max drawdown was 111 usd. In forwardtest 2019 - 2020 all resulted to drawdown 101 usd. Can be said "Forwardtest ...

Expert Advisors optimization & backtesting

HFD and THA. Candles strategy here: url Read my comments in that thread. I made some adjustments.

has anyone EVER seen a successful trader/trading system?

Still in the investing process... image what we can see that the 13EAs package had a 42% drawdown what is 10% more than the biggest dd in 10 years backtests history. Seems correct is the approach: backtest, notice drawdown x%, and yearly profit ...

Expert Advisors optimization & backtesting

About 1 year ago I noticed some successful traders with solid stats available for investing. Today I see 1 of them is gone... 2 years ago he attracted ~700 investors with 5 mil USD capital. Now see what happened: image He traded manually. 2 years ...

has anyone EVER seen a successful trader/trading system?

Not difficult to show account % growth in TE without exposing money. You know that. Edited: I saw your "answer" - you now put me in the ignore state. So not possible to post here anymore. Well... everything clear now.

Has anyone started a new business financed from forex trading?

Maybe you say truth. Please show your TE with consistent profits % (without money exposed) - thats only thing that counts when talking on "success".

Has anyone started a new business financed from forex trading?

It might be ok to trade without SL. The problem is: 1) to put all money into 1 account and trade without SL; 2) Or/and do not cash out profits (be too greedy) Know several traders in person who are able to gain quite good profits when no SL used... ...

Gold Nugget For You!

No real money on brokers accounts? Even qualified traders continue trading on demo accounts as signals providers? If so then no win win here... brokers just pay for demo servers... therefore brokers not interested to partnership - brokers get ...

FTMO - For serious traders

Can't find in ftmo.com website rule about 50% positive days... searched traderotakar profile posts and didn't find any comments regarding 50% days. Is this 50% positive days still issue?

FTMO - For serious traders

If an strategy stoped to work it means all it used see empty accounts or undesired drawdown and turn off that strategy. So... less or no people continue using it and... strategy starts "workig" again after some time. Problem with strategies is ...

What I learned after losing $300,000 trading forex

If Renaissance Technologies somehow managed to survive 30 years with average 60% yearly profits (before taxes) by using quantitative analysis and algos then out of "randomness" it is still possible to get out something good.

What I learned after losing $300,000 trading forex