Hi, I vaguely remember something about confidence levels from school maths and that was one of my ideas. One consistency is between different parts of your data set. Does optimizing one half of your data provide good parameters for the second half? ...

backtesting, The past...

Hi Quathar, It is indeed an interesting question. I think that would depend on the consistency of your backtesting results. If the results were very consistent then you might be happy to trade the system with a lower number of backtested trades. If ...

backtesting, The past...

Hi, To add to twinchell, I would also confirm that in my backtesting different pairs can drawdown differently but can sometimes drawdown at the same time! I would set trading strategy/position sizing to a maximum of 15%DD based on past figures and ...

Currency Pair Diversification

Hi, I think it depends on what you are trying to measure. If it performs differently, take a step back and see if there are any obvious reasons why it performs differently. Did interest rates change? Where there policy changes? Did the market ...

backtesting, The past...

Hi, Could you provide some of your more recent losing mechanical backtested results with dates, times, entries and exits? And maybe Bagovino or Tick could respond and provide an explanation or comparison as to why their live trades are profitable as ...

Bagovino Method

Hi Tick, Thank you for taking the time to post how you trade the system along with your charts. Could you explain why you didn't go short when there was a cross and and the rsi dropped below 50 before point C? Thanks Alan

Bagovino Method

Hi MM I wasn't going to say anything but you're doing such a fantastic job on positivity The small trade was taken after a much bigger speculative long position got stopped out at 1.8840 from the previous day. On hindsight, I should have ...

NFP Results....

Hi MM, Thanks First NFP I've traded, I got +17 via a straddle on the day and +154 on a tiny position long from the night before. Will be busy refining entry and exit Big Thanks for your positivity in this thread Best regards Alan

NFP Results....

Hi Snuffle, Looks likes our posts got lost in the upgrade Thanks for your testing. Let me know if you find any other bugs. I'm reattaching the spreadsheet. Many thanks Alan

Firehorse's trading spreadsheet

Hi SnuffleExactly what I designed it for myself I used Fxsol with microlots so my standard lot size is 1000, so I need 7.00 of fxsol's microlots to be equivalent to a 0.07 standard lot if you see what I mean. I think I will have to change the ...

Firehorse's trading spreadsheet

Hi Snuffle, Thank you very much for taking the time to test the spreadsheet. Following your steps, I found an error in the formulas in cells N11, N12 and N14, relating to the stoploss P/L as I forgot to add the currency divider which I did remember ...

Firehorse's trading spreadsheet

Hi Snuffle, The prices are pulled from http://au.finance.yahoo.com/currency which have a 15 min delay on them. It's not clear if they are bid prices or ask prices but they are approximate prices. I downloaded the latest version of fxcalc 7.2 to test ...

Firehorse's trading spreadsheet

Spreadsheet with eurchf & gbpchf — Hi Snuffle, Take this for a test run and see if you can find any bugs. Best regards Alan

Firehorse's trading spreadsheet

Hi Sergiu, You've done well to account for the spread I have a running total in the columns next to each trade result to convert each trade into risk/stoploss size, trade size, profit/loss in cash. This is a common mistake I have done myself. To ...

Backtest results!

Hi Snuffle I'll see what I can do Thanks I find that hard to use too but I believe it to be accurate and I double check my results with it whenever I'm unsure. Best regards Alan

Firehorse's trading spreadsheet

Hi, Your Test 2 eurjpy and usdcad look interesting. First, have you accounted for spread, and if the pip count is correct for real life entry and exit. I see you have 582 trades for eurjpy. Every pip spread means -582 off your total pip result. ...

Backtest results!

Hi Snuffle, Let me know which other pairs you are using in addition to eurchf and I will add them in. Regards Alan

Firehorse's trading spreadsheet

Hi Jake, Umm ... haven't you just increased your account by 17% in 10 trading days? Best regards Alan

Jake's Live Trading Results

Hi Forexhen, Thanks for keeping me updated, just going through the verification process myself. Thanks Alan

Cheapest way to fund an egold account?

fxch — Hi, I used forex-swiss (fxch) in June 06. Despite their claims of 2pip spread, when trading live, their live prices 'sometimes' deviated from their demo price by 3 pips consistently until questioned on live chat and then the live prices ...

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