I learned BASIC on ye 'olde TRS-80, sorry for butting in David but your post was making me all nostalgic.

unusual histogram problem

Indeed this is true, one has to be careful of the context as the accuracy depends on many things, in the case you mention I would feel better about testing this on open or close only data as your exits may be overstated if they are based on ...

How Could a Trading Simulator possibly be accurate?

Nothing that you are going to find in a public forum.

Automatic Trading Systems

I'm not familiar with the Simulator function, but certainly using the back-tester on 'every tick' mode is epic folly which has been well documented, basically you end up with a massive over estimation of the volatility within a given bar. In short ...

How Could a Trading Simulator possibly be accurate?

LOL, I was wondering about that myself, over-leveraged maybe?

Aggresive Trading, Does It really Pay In the long Run? lets find out!

Actually, it is you who is repeatedly failing to grasp the point. If you can't grasp what smittens is trying to tell you I would strongly suggest you don't do anything else until you come to an understanding of this matter.

NFA - "No more Limit or Stop Loss orders"

From an system evaluation point of view they are both equally useless, as neither takes the sample size into consideration.

Profit Factor OR Expected Payoff...Which is more important??

I use volatility adjusted sliding stops for momentum strategies, usually with no take profit, why limit your upside? For mean-reversion strategies obviously a take profit is needed. Bottom line is I test different trade management strategies and ...

Trading without a stop loss!

I don't want to rain on the parade, but the Gain data is really bad quality, full of holes etc.

Historical Data

I must admit I don't keep an edge eye on the system threads, but I don't think I've seen anybody offer up much of a record past a MT4 history for the past couple of weeks, in fact many of the popular threads have proven to be scams. I'm not saying ...

Where is the science? Where are the statistics

I'm really interested in this viewpoint the the trader fail rate is due to some sort of inherent psychological malaise in the general population, do you have evidence to back this up? I'd also be grateful if you could point me at some of these ...

Where is the science? Where are the statistics

I couldn't have said it better, there are thousands of ways to make money but millions of ways to loose it.

Where is the science? Where are the statistics

Go outside and look up, practice staring at the clouds until on command you are able to identify your favorite animals amongst the shapes you see. Keep practicing this until you can just walk out and reel them off "Cow, goat, cat etc". When you have ...

price action only system ?

Taleb's books are entertaining if you can get past his rather narcissistic world view. But his arguments require careful thought, as some of them are just utter rubbish.

what is the best forex book?

The more you get into AI, the more you realize it's limitations. All AI boils down to some kind of search or regression, with a metric for ranking solutions, the general problems as I see them are... 1) AI cannot define which inputs are relevant, ...

AIs vs Human Traders

This is interesting stuff, I was looking though some of these papers about a year ago, it certainly solves the problem of the best network topology and doing the evaluation genetically means one does not have to write all sorts of nasty equations to ...

My most recent advancements into machine learning

Quite correct, 1 is good, the rest are voodoo. I would also add trade management (exits, stops, B/E etc) & knowing what market condition you are actually trying to capture by placing the trade.

5 Must-know Concepts & Tools In Forex

They are all kind of pretty much the same, C has a lot of low level pointer stuff which you probably don't need to learn for MT4, but they all have the same basic constructs.

An advice from the programmers

I don't think there is any need to take classes, a couple of good books and access to a user friendly complier should be enough to get the ball rolling.

An advice from the programmers

I haven't done anything, but this post may be of value url . I'm using Linode, and the server has been running for almost 3 months with no problems, if that helps.

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