Hi, respect your thoughts. Can you break this down please? Are you splitting the 'fund' in two, where the trader withdraws a part per month and the other part he can compound? Thanks.

(can) small accounts make a living ?!

Thanks.

Statistics to Trade By

The nature of fixed fractional betting is such that when you break a winning streak you lose the most and when you break a losing streak you win the least. But no amount of tinkering in a staking system(as Hanover already mentioned) can affect the ...

Statistics to Trade By

The discipline required to wait for your setup is very very analogous to poker, sitting and playing tight for hours at end requires tremendous amount of patience. I know a gentleman earlier mentioned that you will give your range away with a tight ...

Poker vs Trading

Trade frequency, maybe more important then profit factor, or as.

Statistics to Trade By

Mathematician — I know what you're saying, but technically there is no way to run out of levels when you bet martingale on fixed fractional. Obv, you will be betting an amount that will render you practically bankrupt. Actually, in my ...

Double up and get rich???

This idea is hot....imo.

Trend-spotting

Also try and get your hands on William Poundstone's "Prisoner's Dilemma" (if u haven't already), very interesting book on Von Neumann and Game theory in general. Not that advanced, but a friendly intro to game theory, u can read on the side. ...

Stating The Obvious and The Quest For Wisdom

I havent completed this thread, but i think u should concentrate on biggest loss instead of DD, more accurate picture. A DD could be biased, a string of losing trades can happen at an time, dosent alter the individual trade probability, so in effect ...

Stating The Obvious and The Quest For Wisdom

Thanks u guys, all of u. And to whoever changed the title.

Can you suggest a good book?

Thanks, check ur PM, sent u a link.

Can you suggest a good book?

Sorry fellas, the title should have a question mark. Dont know how to change it.

Can you suggest a good book?

that, would be a mistake. Ty for your posts.

Got into a discussion with someone, he says forex is inherently a losing game

In the sense that the FX mkt or any Futures mkt is a zero game (meaning it neglects commissions and slippage), then, the Stock market is a Zero sum game too. What Darkstar is saying as an explanation to your point of everyone jumping on the ...

Got into a discussion with someone, he says forex is inherently a losing game

Damn, cant seem to relocate tht link for u, ill pm u with it as soon as i do. Thanks for the site.

Q on CandleSticks and Nisson.

Yeah, i get what u mean, i believe FX has some timing caveats along with obvious lack of consistency from platform to platform. Im done with the first ed, basically i think his techniques (or the Japanese for tht matter) have been formulated with ...

Q on CandleSticks and Nisson.

Ok "The Candlestick charting course" ..... hadnt seen tht around, gonna look for it, i did download a slideshow (Hanover), on FX by him. Ty.

Q on CandleSticks and Nisson.

I still remember as clear as yesterday, I was a sophomore in college, thought i had the "holy grail", standing by the roulette table at Claridges as the ball was spinning in that particular "series" for the fourteenth time, and the host while ...

Analysis of Martingale