spyderman, I look at your description in the first post of this thread: low risk, high return. This system was up a lot at the start because of the China scare. How much was it.......30-40%? Now its down with a DD of over 30%: a difference of ...

Reverse Engineering a Profitable System (REPS)

PT, that is not true. price can do all of those things at the same time. pair is in an uptrend and price breaks out to the downside past the last higher low (breakout). is it a retracement? is it a reversal? we don't know yet. its definitely a ...

How many strategies does one need?

Just a few thoughts...... I think daily ATR sizing of TP and SL is best. you have ranging years where the daily ATR of EUR/USD is just about 50 pips a day. in that case you could have a lower TP of 10 pips and SL of 30 pips. often at the end of the ...

what can we do with 90% winrate?

what a life........10+ hours a day....stressful does that mean a prop trader like you cant make enough money by only trading longer-term?

Just a bit of advice, for anyone, for free

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Where can I find cheap non-delayed currencies futures feed?

a mini Nasdaq100 contract is worth $ 20 a point. that is what I traded on the demo account, so that I can compare the swap and commission costs of the cfd`s with trading the futures. but you are right: if you trade $10 a point then the commission is ...

Atom8 Discussion

what is the insured amount and has anybody ever been paid and how long did that take? am shifting my IB account to various forex brokers preferably in UK for their gbp50k government guarantee per person per firm. joint account = gbp100k guarantee I ...

Cyprus-regulated brokers - regulation

as a follow up from my earlier post: EUR/AUD futures do exist at cme.com and the contract units = 125,000 Euro. this means that each 1.25 lots of EUR/AUD spot forex will be hedged with 1 futures contract.

Question: How to hedge spot forex with futures contracts?

I doubt you have EUR/AUD futures. in that case you would need 2 futures contracts to offset your spot forex: buy AUD/USD contract = 100,000 AUD; sell EUR/USD contract = 125,000 EUR from memory. EUR = 1.55 AUD, so EUR/USD is worth AUD$ 193,750 that ...

Question: How to hedge spot forex with futures contracts?

from what I understand is that Atom8 don't have nasdaq100 futures, but cfd`s. they seem to charge $20 return, although it is a commission-free account.

Atom8 Discussion

R19 that`s why I don't trade just 1 position, but spread my money across at least 10 uncorrelated instruments. that`s how I can still trade the 100k in your example. as Bilstein stated before: no use to trade without a SL if you are trading only 1 ...

Trading without SL: your profound experience

hedging is for people who want to stop the losses to go any higher, but know how to trade out of those losses at a later date when the market is more favourable. no different from holders of a stock portfolio, who in times of great uncertainty hedge ...

Hedging vs Stop Loss

yes, relatively small position sizes, but......in 1 pair or several pairs but correlated? in forex you could trade uncorrelated pairs like A/N E/G S/J and C/U branch out to indices, oil, gold, natural gas, copper etc. just start with no leverage per ...

Trading without SL: your profound experience

I have been trading full-time since 1998, first trading under 1 cent shares on the ASX, but now trading 10 different and unrelated instruments across forex, indices and commodities. Yes, I do average in when price is getting out of the grid and is ...

Trading without SL: your profound experience

trading without SL is certainly possible, but....you will have to plan your system for every eventuality to survive and make a good living. a good idea is to follow a pair for as far back as 2008 and see how you can survive that market. only then ...

Trading without SL: your profound experience

nasdaq100 futures or cfd`s? for a e-mini contract = $20 per point -- how much is the margin/any swap long/short? or if cfd: what is the leverage, daily swap long/short for a $20 per point trade? thank you

Atom8 Discussion

this strategy will take out a lot of false signals in trending pairs. you don't take the trade when price touches the white line, but wait for price to reverse. so price will overshoot the white line and you will only enter a trade if price reverses ...

Amiko System

maybe a bit of fine tuning is in order? suppose you choose GBP/JPY.......what is the ATR for that day........by London open, how many pips did the pair go up or down already for the day?.......still worthwhile to trade that day or wait for ...

Questions about Grid hedging

what nafis proposes is a big step in the right direction if some-one insists on using martingale. trading with the trend is always going to be profitable: even if your position is under water, the trend might bale you out. wait for a dip in the ...

No Loss Martingale Strategy

so what broker would pay you 128b? its all theory crap.

bagXpert's strategy is here