From post 1: "Is there risk for bankrupting the account? YES!" I am in the camp that the entire account is viewed as "risk money." If I weren't willing to lose every dime in the account at one time or another, it would be put into other investments. ...

My money management (advanced)

Hey Green I've always been a fan of being buddies with people I something in common with

My money management (advanced)

Hi rabid From post #1: "Unfortunately, historical drawdown should be simply a GUESTIMATION of what drawdown is expected.... new higher drawdowns in the future (compared to the past 8 years) are inevitable. So, to compensate for this, if my account ...

My money management (advanced)

Hi Green let me elaborate (and thank you for the question.) First, does money management ever give a trader an advantage? NO! Let's make that clear first. The best we can do is mitigate our adversity as much as possible. For me, this MM technique ...

My money management (advanced)

hey tenantro, with your DSP background, have you considered downloading the tick data from GainCapital? (available for free...) in case you don't know, this is each and every tick the pair touches INSIDE of the 1 minute bars.... it is the finest ...

My own small "revelations" about volatility

monthly timeframes

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all you need to do is change "advise" to "advice" in the title, and you might really have something there... by the way, with this mantra you've assembled.... how many pips have you actually made? thanks.

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hey tenantro all you need to do is press the ignore button on my profile.... then you wouldn't have to worry about your feathers ruffling.

My own small "revelations" about volatility

i think it deals more with fundamentals (though tenantro may disagree) if you look back over the past 12 months you could get a feeling for a pair's strength in terms of percentage against itself...

My own small "revelations" about volatility

this is a followup to my % explanation given in #3 in my first post of this page. i think the % is derived like this: hypothetical example: (looking back 22 days) GBPUSD high 2.0210, low 1.9342 EURUSD high 1.5643, low 1.4722 divide the low by the ...

My own small "revelations" about volatility

haha apparently you want to go to war with me on your own thread. unfortunately i was being sincere when i said "GOOD FOR YOU." what you do with your own money and account is strictly on your shoulders.... if you found a way to make money, it is a ...

My own small "revelations" about volatility

he uses daily data... not hourly.

My own small "revelations" about volatility

here's the API for file functions: url

Is it possible to save array info?

that was funny.... (and meaningful!)

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samclider is the first of many to start posting backtests.... it is the nature of a thread with this title.... kinda outrageous that trk demands live trading (to each their own) if it were me (it clearly isn't) live forward tests would be ...

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i appreciate your humor.

I never proved anything

i do it with text files... in my init() i open the file and read them back into my array. cheers edit) rangebound hit the nail on the head.

Is it possible to save array info?

if you found something that seems to work, good for you! 1) i didn't "react." i responded. my reply had nothing to do with "how smart i am." 2) if you ask 100 REAL currency traders if EURUSD is more volatile than GBPUSD, 99 would laugh ...

My own small "revelations" about volatility