So much this. And knowing that, you have to find ways to force yourself into discipline. For me it was always "walk away". Through my entire trading career I had to fight the urge to "check on the trade". And the more I checked the more it fueled my ...

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The "I Can't Sleep, Midnight Edition" This currency scan is brought to you by, "I drank coffee at 8PM and what was I thinking?" Markets are pretty quiet right now. Smattering of momentum here and there in the short term price action. We see a small ...

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A quick follow up to last nights signal in the EURCHF. We've seen the pair touch last nights S1 which accounts for nearly 100 pips. The pair is signaling short term bearish momentum as a result of that pa. There could be some more left on the table ...

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I think we're about 95% functional again. Tomorrow I'll double check everything, rewrite the keys and notations (better descriptions etc) then it should be business as usual and on to the ML expansion, finally. That's been a long time coming. image

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Making progress. Dashboard/Reporting is properly pointing back to the calculation pages which are grabbing from the data pages which are pointing back to source files... need to double check everything but the basic scan and charts should be ...

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And so the work begins, resumes, something. Gotten quite a bit done the last couple of days. With Numerai out of my system and a good camping trip behind me it's time to start grinding on the scan again. Right now I'm making some adjustments in the ...

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Thank you. It was really satisfying to see the work still had value.

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Back in March of 2016 I started competing at Numerai as one of their anonymous Data Scientists (ObjectScience). Over the last several months I've managed to hold a ranking in the top 1% (.007 if you're counting) for average live logloss (tracked by ...

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good grief, it seems like forever since I've been in here. Still grinding along with Numerai comp. They have a revamped data-set out and one of the targets now is "consistency" which measures how well a model does across different time periods. For ...

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I managed to survive the SNB, basically un-touched. But it did really make me nervous. Like you I've got a lot invested in mt4 (it sounds like they are forcing a change to mt5 ) and moving to someone like Interactive is not something I'm really ...

FXCM and CEO Drew Niv banned from US market by CFTC

That would be interesting, always thought he was a real person.

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I totally forgot that. I left FXCM because they kept truncating my trade history which was jacking up my TE results only to discover (after the fact) Gain didn't do investor PW's. With even less competition in the market, I don't see them ...

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I'm not on as much as I used to be (back in my FXAnalytic days) but I haven't seen much of you. Good to see you around again. Now if we could just get Ronald Regan to make an appearance now and again, it would be like old times.

FXCM and CEO Drew Niv banned from US market by CFTC

That's a stupid thing to say for several reasons. First it implies that non-US based firms are some how less corrupt than firms state side. Secondly for US traders, that's not even possible. You can't get a reputable firm over seas to take US ...

FXCM Discussion

They were never Refco. Refco was a completely separate firm whose background was futures. They added retail Forex to their offerings and white labeled the FXCM trade platform to avoid creating new technology. Refco didn't keep our money. The judge ...

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We all know industry risk, including corruption is a potential (especially in this business) but that doesn't mean it's not stealing when it happens.

FXCM Discussion

Pretty sure US based accounts are heading to Gain (Forex.com). You'll probably go through a period where no new trades can be opened, and then existing trades will need to be closed. Once activity has been halted accounts will be transfered and ...

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To be fair, corruption happens at a really high level. I don't for one second expect someone who's job it is to manage social exposure on a forum to know their firm is knee deep in the shit prior to someone like the CFTC coming out with their ...

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Continuing to grind at Numeai. Haven't really improved much on the 15% placement even though the models etc are getting better. As I get better so does the competition. I've also started my comp at Kaggle, lucked out on a partner and we're currently ...

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