My optimizations/backtests of number of EAs shows that break even dont help in longterm. You have to have some looses - for example to sit in 30% drawdown several months and then get out. What I see from a lot of EAs backtests (and live trading) - ...

What I learned after losing $300,000 trading forex

Turned on trades copy from "Candles trend" in my investor account because 22% drawdown: image

Expert Advisors optimization & backtesting

Reached 330% in 5 days then wiped out (see my TE). Using averaging to get out of losing trades. It's risky when a strong move and no retrace. So decided to try this: 1 account for BUY and 2nd account for SELL signals only (1 symbol GBPUSD) The ...

$409k Challenge

What is difference when you have on account 1000usd and use Stop loss for example 9% (90 usd) or you split your capital and have on account 100usd and trade without SL? (stopout level on 10%). Lets say you 4 times in a row wipe out entire 100usd ...

$409k Challenge

Learned that overtrading is relevant to EAs too. When backtest 10 years history then forwardtest I learned that best performing (and stable) EAs setups are those which have about 20-40 deals per year.

What have you learned?

https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/1279575273365594112?s=20 Is it realistic - Kanye West US president?

The end of the US stock market is nearing

On July 9 opened deal with 10 lots after going in drawdown. Then again several deals with 5 lots. Please explain what it was a technique you applied then?

1H Swing Trading on EURUSD

If you use averaging what I see in your trades history then consider cashout frequently. Because the martingale/averaging/grid will fail 100% in the long run at some point. But it is ok to use those techniques but not with all your capital. If you ...

1H Swing Trading on EURUSD

Please share your live account in the trade explorer.

Finally an EA that really works!

Today noticed an interesting moment... how I made decisions. Was tired so many times sit in drawdown of not perfect entry... So decided to do some different approach: 1) Get ready for entry - according to all decision-making factors (indicators etc) ...

CHEETAH Trading (100%+ per trade or up to 500% or more)

I'm not the author of this thread. My approach with averaging is just an idea - experimenting now. There are other ideas, for example, to find out only juicy entries that are rare but exist.

CHEETAH Trading (100%+ per trade or up to 500% or more)

I'm still following this thread. Trying with small money some ideas... This week started a new approach something like this: 1) Running special EA which does not make entries but averages out manually made entries 2) Manually making entries - using ...

CHEETAH Trading (100%+ per trade or up to 500% or more)

Maybe cashout and restart with 200 usd. Reach again 1800% (3600 usd) then cashout and restart with 400 usd (reach 7200 usd), then restart with 800 usd (reach 14400 usd) then restart with 1600 usd (reach 28800 usd) then restart with 3200 usd (reach ...

$409k Challenge

Investigate those demo accounts, notice trading strategy, develop an EA with the same rules, backtest 3-5 years and will get precise statistic how many days that worked out and from that number you can calculate how much money you need to procceed. ...

1% to 3% Per Day? All things are Possible

Optimizations/backtests of 10 year data for more than 10 symbols as a 1 unified package. You never know which symbol will profit in a particular year. Some win, some loose and some break-even. There are statistic fluctuations. There are periods when ...

Cable Update (GBPUSD)

When you don't calculate risks/probabilities then it is a gamble... if you have 10 years of statistics and probabilities and strict system according to stats then it's no gamble.

Cable Update (GBPUSD)

See here how to propper optimize/backtest/forwardtest: url I prefer to optimize 2010 - 2017, then run forward test with 2017 - 2020. Use MT5 for optimizations/testing because it automates forward testing. image Choose the most stable parameters ...

Need guidance to improve my Trend Riding EA (attached)