Leon, I'm sat on the other side of the fence I've backtested hundreds of systems, both discretionary and non-discretionary ones and spent a lot of time playing around with the R:R and came to a single overall conclusion: If the system has an ...

Reward for your Risk: FX vs other Business

Stunning Mikkom, very impressive. My quant skills are virtually non-existent, but one thing I've never been able to test which I always felt had validity are the outlying days - extreme trending days. That distribution of london sessions ranges on ...

Systematic trading

True, DS was one of the smartest definitely. And as for working things out - I couldn't agree more. It's definitely easier not to do it and trade with what's easily available and discussed on here just using time and price (or fundies too) as your ...

Historical Options & Order flow Info...

No question about that Leon, me too. I'd have liked to have read the sweet liquidity thread though before it disappeared into the ether.

Historical Options & Order flow Info...

Good luck with that - I'm assuming it's a manual affair to sit and wait out till you've enough data or be rescued by some well-wisher here on FF... Agggh. Interesting about the traders. There used to be a ton of posts about options from DS and the ...

Historical Options & Order flow Info...

Printed options for a few months (the Java in Oanda is enough to make me buy IFR seeing as you can't cut and paste), and a list of my own order flow trades from the same time. Nice, but not thorough. For what I need I need a least a year's worth of ...

Historical Options & Order flow Info...

Leon, you bump away. Didn't realise you were looking for the very same - I've been rooting around for these for a while now. I'll put the plea out there too - anyone?

Historical Options & Order flow Info...

Check T2W site. If it's sole income from spreadbetting you're a professional gambler, and while there's not been a test case AFAIK for s/betting, there have for gamblers on the horses, and he was found liable. My only advice is never speak to the ...

UK Spreadbetting tax rules

Thanks DT, much appreciated. I mostly trade swing timescales and I've been looking for ways of improving entry (I'm currently one shot kind of trader), and this looks just the job.

Averaging when already In the RED....

DT - nice averaging. But how you do get out a b/e at worst? Say in your eg, you've divided your risk into 4 orders: 2 limit buys below, 2 stop buys above. If from that position price moves down and past your limits into the red, do you then use the ...

Averaging when already In the RED....

Zone to zone - that's where I always thought there was most benefit - when the entry is not an absolute number (scale in), or the exit isn't a defined target (scale out). But I can't see how round number breaks or expiries fall into that category? ...

Averaging when already In the RED....

Genius idea. $40,000 reward, say 1000 entrants with $500 accounts each, encourage huge over-leveraging and guarantee half at least will blow their accounts - that's $250,000 to the brokers straightaway. Say generously that 30% break even, and the ...

$961 - $19,714 one month

Riiiight, the guy above is really for a different thread. I'm sure someone has got something like this. Anyone? And please, no more PMs offering to code it for me for a price. This is a dead simple, very useful bit of information to have. I've been ...

% ATR indicator

Hmm... doesn't change it from being zero sum though. The motivation doesn't change anything. Just because they didn't enter into the trade specifically to gain, doesn't stop their being a winner/loser on the trade.

Who will pay for your money ?

This has been bugging me now for 24 hours, mainly because I always thought it was zero sum (or erring slightly negative). Xaron mentions banks and commercial hedgers don't require profit. Neither do central banks in this respect. Or anyone whose ...

Who will pay for your money ?

I'd be hard pushed to find anyone on this forum who's put as much effort into delivering something that: a) Everyone can use b) Is genuinely useful in trading c) Must have taken an eternity to complete. ...as Hanover's news plugin for Metatrader. ...

Forex Factory Hall Of Fame

Pipintime, the revenue already have a tax status for full timers - "professional gamblers". The case was proven a long-time ago with someone who made his income off the horses. I've not heard of any spread-betters being taken up like this, but the ...

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