To echo what's already said, 1500+ out-of-sample trades get's you to statistical significance. OOS can be fiddled with though which will ruin your results. This makes walk-forward more meaningful but less practical. Who has time to walk forward 1500 ...

Backtesting discussion

I'm sorry to hear that. Big losses always suck, hope you can grind your way back.

Cable Update (GBPUSD)

if I knew where the bottom was going to be we'd all be rich... I'm "hoping" there is going to be a cyclical move back up. Across the daily and weekly time frames there is some asymmetry and it looks like the pair might be over-sold. Once the ...

Cable Update (GBPUSD)

going to set a couple of triggers on this thing. one for when the BO/Momentum subside, might take some small exposure at that point, then another for a BO higher. I never set my triggers on the G/J and am currently kicking myself in the ass for ...

Cable Update (GBPUSD)

More goats, more monkeys please... It's late, I'm tired, and I need a good chuckle. Anyway, contribooting... Max is Doomed.

EURUSD

Calling PowerShell from VBA Today's single line of code was brought to you by PowerShell, where you damn well better not have spaces in your directory if you want to call it from VBA. So my current process goes like this. Get a text from the ...

Currency Scan

hahaha... I'm good man. I feel like my brain is shot. I've been chasing bugs the last couple of days but that's all part of the fun. I'll do my best to keep the jokes cheesey for the balance.

EURUSD

Pips Made Pips Missed

EURUSD

haha... it's a good rule. I've found for me, no matter what I do, I'm almost always throwing myself in front of the train, so I try to keep the damage to a minimum. There is something to be said for loosing a little bit of skin vs your entire body. ...

EURUSD

Got ya, I thought they had gotten stricter on using that area as Tax shelter. From what I've read you wouldn't really want to trade there. Electric and Internet are about as reliable as the Fed's monetary policy.

EURUSD

I like the one with you and Shoigu better.

EURUSD

How did you handle the taxation, wouldn't you lose a large chunk each year to short-term gains?

EURUSD

I'll throw my two cents into ryders two cents here and make if four cents if that makes sense? Watching the screen sucks which is why I've spent so much time automating and coding. Even with that I still shoot for the larger moves (lose 100 to gain ...

EURUSD

first make sure it's fubar, run a malwarebytes and a hitmanpro scan (be super careful of the second one). Use something like Ccleaner to clean up the registry and make sure your HD is completely defragged. If you want to run dual monitors off of a ...

EURUSD

I'm way late to the party today. Development stuff has me bogged down at the moment but I got a LOT done this weekend... If you can consider a single line of code to mean "a lot". I'm still occasionally tripped up by the move to build 600 by MT4 all ...

EURUSD

haha... I appreciate the concern, that email has been in the wild for over ten years. It's been on FXStreet since 2005, DailyFX since 2004 and so on. It doesn't connect to anything important (anymore). Besides that, if I didn't get the occasional ...

Where is the logic behind applying Fibonacci to trading?

I'm easy to get too, but can be hard to get a hold of... Reach out any time. [email protected] or on skype jputmanii

Where is the logic behind applying Fibonacci to trading?

You've just summed up the entire problem with retail FX in your first sentence. No one ever wants their comfort zone challenged because "muh beliefs". I'm not talking about a cerebral debate where two political or religious sides argue over vague ...

Where is the logic behind applying Fibonacci to trading?

That would mean a lot more if you had basis for it. This is the problem we're addressing, believing something doesn't make it so. If you had a way to measure and express "price action trading" in a meaningful way that could be duplicated across a ...

Where is the logic behind applying Fibonacci to trading?