Indeed, wipeout is a possibility (which has already been discussed a few times...) It all comes down to philosophy.... and appetite for risk.... the size of divisor needs to be adjusted to meet the trader's own risk level.

My money management (advanced)

Thank you for your effort, rangebound.

Passing data from one MT4 client to another

I've been after a "file last modified" function....

I am having a ball importing DLLs

I am attaching the RAW PIP PERFORMANCE of my strategies for 2008 that my graph in post #1 is derived from.... Each trade was 0.1 lots, so every dollar is the equivalent of a pip (either green or red.) Although it looks very good and linear, there ...

My money management (advanced)

You can also simplify things by never recalculating the divisor, and just use an initial divisor that is higher than your max historical drawdown. (Otherwise margin calls will become a concern sooner) It really just depends on your appetite for ...

My money management (advanced)

As for fixed fraction.... nobody says you can't do that.... but fixed fraction during any sort of drawdown will hurt the compounding that can later occur during a winning streak.... so I am willing to take more risk in return for a faster recovery ...

My money management (advanced)

(hint: learn to do it for yourself url ) that way you won't be bothering everyone for help with every tiny project like this one.

Request for a (maybe) simple script!

It does. BUT I do not know if it changes the swaps to historical swap values as it backtests. For example if EURUSD swap was $0.10 in 2007 (in the "real" world) and $-0.10 in 2008, it is probably only applying $-0.10 to both 2007 and 2008 in the ...

MT4 backtest swap question

Hmmmm.... What's wrong with learning and experimenting? Did it occur to you that I might ENJOY this little project? I know your intentions were good, but.... Okay, so 100 pips a day.... those are his claims? Does he keep a live journal? Are you ...

MA Cross Optimization EA (very cool)

Drawdown is bound to get ugly (what's new? )

4 Levels Martingale Grid System

Scenario 4 is -500, not -250. Scenario 3 is +500.

4 Levels Martingale Grid System

Well we have a lot of FF heavy hitters weighing in on this thread. And though I have my own opinions about this discussion, I choose to keep them to myself for once. The entertainment value of spectating is a nice change of scenery for me.

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i owe you a demo dollar. would you like it distributed in IBFX, FXDD, or FastBroker denominations?

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And how does a statistician (such as yourself) deal with market conditions changing, thus adversely effecting a characteristic that was present for 20+ years?

MA Cross Optimization EA (very cool)

Hi Rabid I feel like we might be cheating the system a little bit with that type of statistical analysis.... (but maybe not) Let me explain. By taking several pairs and trading different algorithms on them, we will have several small population ...

MA Cross Optimization EA (very cool)

You know, I just opened the PDF and see good old MACD. The first thought in my mind: just another person plopping random indicators on a chart.... finding a few patterns that made pips here and there..... and ignoring where the TA system failed. MY ...

How To Effectively Trade In Both Range And Trending Market By A Single Method