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MT4 Brokers' Virtual Dealer Plug-In

An excellent question. And one I've studied in depth. The results of my tests and observations are that sadly the reason most systems are unprofitable isn't because of the win rate. It is typically a function of average profit or loss per trade. ...

Has Anyone made An EA to trades the opposite, Inverse or Converse Of another EA ??

Do the demo MT4 quotes show the same as the live MT4 quotes? Also, is there any way to get size info from the MT4? Size at bid/ask and is depth available? Thanks!

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

Different software computes Max DD% in different ways. The way you describe (Max Balance to Min Balance) is used by Metatrader I believe. This leads to one of Metatraders's backtesting limitations when testing strategies that open multiple positions ...

Drawdowns?

And some people still start threads with titles like, "Why do 95% of traders fail?" I'll just wager that there is a correlation in there somewhere.

What Is An "Edge" IN Trading?

Yes and much of FF and other online trading sites is dedicated to the trading plan aspect of trading - putting the cart before the horse. Particularly so in the trading journals and interactive trading. I see very little system logic posted on the ...

What Is An "Edge" IN Trading?

There are different kinds of edges: Speed edge - if you're the fastest squirrel on the block then you'll be the first one to grab up the acorn. This is a hard edge to maintain as there's always someone faster out there who you're competing with to ...

What Is An "Edge" IN Trading?

Excellent thread guys. I hope I'm not too late to the party. If things are being taken offline I'd like to be added to the list. I just spent the weekend furiously reading the whole thread from start to finish. I've been reading books on signal ...

Optimized Trend Trading

Rewind to 1996. Robert Rubin the Treasury Secretary at the time starts printing money like there's no tomorrow. And at the same time Alan Greenspan (Fed Chairman) lowers rates. The result was the 1996 to 2000 stock market bubble. The bubble burst ...

How did the housing market crisis start?

Pennies? Just so people understand how bad this actually is and how it will actually destroy the markets it is applied to, a forex example. If this were to be applied to forex, and let's say Rabid is correct that it is 0.25% on each side of the ...

Forex Taxes

Pardon the interruption of this fine melodrama, but I thought it would be pertinent to point out that my interpretation of Orest's fine working EA has helped me bag some pips. I'm new to the T101 strategy and the Orest indicator / EA but I can ...

Indicators development for T101's not very simple method

Thanks for the update Carl. Looks like zero (0) is the top slot and 13 is the bottom slot. And when I loaded the 10-13-2008_AL.csv file directly into excel, Excel must lock the file because the program kicked out "unable to write to locked file" ...

T101 external IA Monitor

Very interesting - I haven't seen that one. I've used Powerbasic which is also a VB like environment (for some tasks) and this one looks similar. Most of my development is in VB6 though because it is so easy for me to use. The fact that you can ...

T101 external IA Monitor

I seem to have to exit then reload the program in order for the new day's date to be populated in the dropdown box (so I can select it). Is there a way to get the new date to update in the dropdown without needing to reload the program?

T101 external IA Monitor

Hey Carl, Appreciate your response and I agree with your points exactly! Why fix something that may work perfectly if we just take the time to understand it better? Good points all! To that end I have been watching how the currencies have been ...

T101 external IA Monitor

Carl, Thanks for your program. I wanted to make a suggestion that will save you some serious time down the road while making your work more flexible and easier to maintain. (Did that get your attention?!) I'm also a programming type and can relate ...

T101 external IA Monitor

It loads now! THANK YOU!!

T101 external IA Monitor

Hi crodzilla - Just wanted to confirm what Timefreedom is saying. I also get a slew of message boxes on program start and then the program ends - version 18. The data files exist with 500 data points in each (as verified in Excel) as does the ...

T101 external IA Monitor

I agree! It is what you make of it! And I'm also convinced that no matter how well a system performs in the past that the chance of total wipeout as you so aptly put it, is still a possibility. And so I'm developing systems on both fronts or with ...

Optimization results question

Drawdown % is very important. Many systems perform profitably but have so much drawdown that they are untradeable at the margin level you expect / desire. And I don't think MT4 computes drawdown correctly - or margin used and things like margin ...

Optimization results question