What are you trying to achieve? Volatility? Directional bias? Based on what you want to do, you can do more than those. Academics are not traders and they don't know what a trader should know. If you have some alternative data, factorize them ...

Markov Models and Forex

I talk from my experience and what I heard from my fellow quant trader sits next to me. Yea, you could do lots of things to build a stationary series. There are lots of modeling to try and it's fun indeed. Many CTA ML/Regression/AI models run a good ...

Markov Models and Forex

If you're pretty sure about the macro picture, DCA with small sizes could give you an edge. Trade management is always the key whether DCA or not. BUT most retail traders focus too much on their precise entries and swing points.

Set it and Forget it, Dollar Cost Averaging

Quality improver. Let's say you have a good strategy. With HMM, you could find when to bet bigger and when to bet smaller. It could affect equity curve well. Never try to use ML to generate signals. It's always overfitting due to the unstable nature ...

Markov Models and Forex

Here is a good direction for you to play with it. Instead of using HMM to generate entry signals, it's more useful as a filter. It goes the same for other machine learning algorithms. However, you need a good strategy at first.

Markov Models and Forex

Trading is like playing poker. Try to predict next street is insane. lol

Prop Firm Hub 2.0

Nice rules. Many people do complicated things to predict exact turning points... They don't understand that easy money is coming from momentum.

Prop Firm Hub 2.0

In old days, people would trade the lead-lag relationship between these indices on DOM. Nowadays, with so many HFT algos, the opportunity is not for human. Yea, the correlation is too high. If you trade uni-direction with these indices, you might ...

Trading for a living

Correct me if I guess wrong. You find a pattern and get in with a fixed risk-reward ratio and wait to be stopped out or hit the tp? That's not a good idea. I don't know why most people treat trading like this. Too many theoretically fancy models on ...

Trading for a living

Most people fail because they want to trade everything. Focus on 1 pattern. That's all you need. Then, stick to it. Anything else is meaningless to you.

Trading for a living

yea, that's what a good system look like. clean and easy to execute. image

M1 Countertrend Scalping Strategy

Finally find a post that touches the core of this strategy. With data, it works when you bet small for cost averaging with a good trading plan and a good position management technique. For EURUSD, you could also use USDCHF for hedge. That's EMA ...

M1 Countertrend Scalping Strategy

Let me give you guys a hand. The file is too big to upload. Here is Google Drive Link.

sjmr2

yea, watch the commission fee column on his screenshot.

M1 Countertrend Scalping Strategy

To trade like this, they really need to do some math to calculate limited risk, scale-in times & distance and position sizing. Another way is to split a main account into several sub-accounts and trade 1 sub-account at the time. Without limiting the ...

M1 Countertrend Scalping Strategy