is systematic trading better than discretionary at some point? or is it the former is inferior to the latter for someone who can't deal with emotions very well. Regards, Raymond

Soul's Thread

trend is uptrend isit?

EURUSD Club - Get Your Trend Right

wow i just knew about this,, but still.. where does 1.5M comes from lol.. this just shows how important is diversification..

Why would people need multiple accounts with one broker?

i wonder, do you take into account the slippage? and do u use spread? if no, need to use commission. also in which timeframe u use this EA in? cuz below H1 tfs are usually more expose to over-fitting. (which means that backtest result will not be ...

Stable & safe TREND strategy - 30% to 40% yearly profits

anyways this is a good thread, i'll be contributing too here

Stable & safe TREND strategy - 30% to 40% yearly profits

30-40% a MONTH is clearly, at least to my experience, an arbitrary number. 30-40% a YEAR is really really good. 30-40% a year is hard to achieve, play the long game bro.

Stable & safe TREND strategy - 30% to 40% yearly profits

this post is really insightful to do backtesting the right way, i also read darwinex's blog on backtesting. good contents man 6yrs testing & optimizing ur EA --> 2yrs validation (test1)--> 2yrs final test if validation not good enough then back to ...

Expert Advisors optimization & backtesting

i learnt that diversification will save you a lot of moneyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

What have you learned?

20-40 deals per year.. sounds about right (not sarcasm, it's genuine)

What have you learned?

YES YES YESS!!!!!!!!! I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS KIND OF CONTENT MY WHOLE LIFE. have been trading discretionarily for the past 1.5yrs and always fail miserably because of emotions and recently switched to a more objective approach which is ...

Expert Advisors optimization & backtesting

that's a good starting point, thanks. i have been consistently fail at finding a good algo XD (have been so in the past 6 months, sth is definitely wrong)

Advanced volume trading

hey, what is ur full algo approach? i mean the strategy? i notice that the account is currently down 23% dd is quite huge 35%.. considering in average, a good discretionary traders dd is about 6-7% per month

Algorithmic Trading: The Five 4 hours candles system

yes i know, by automated i mean it can be coded and back-tested without manually back-testing it, cuz it is devastating and tedious. I need to know a lot more about algo trading, do u only use 1 algo to trade all 28 pairs? as far as i'm concern ...

Advanced volume trading

yes u r right, it's tick data. and tick data derives from price relative to the brokers, which means, that it is a volatility measure in essence. and IMO how we can utilize this volatility(tick volume) is: high volatility/high tick volume means that ...

Advanced volume trading

I have to agree to some point, predicting what comes 5 seconds to the future is easier than predicting what might come 5 days to the future this might be hard to grasp for non-scalpers I myself used to scalp too, scalping with sessions and ...

Advanced volume trading

to add to my previous reply: as far as I'm concern it doesn't matter to them(the big banks) where the other banks might be buying/short-selling, because they are hedging the currency markets against inflation. After all, as of right now USD is the ...

Advanced volume trading

I have to agree.. although the collecting volume from different brokers is some-what "objective" but you don't get the full data of the hedge funds/big banks, even them don't have the full data, but their data is enough to tell where ...

Advanced volume trading

Damn.. waste of potential.. This thread was leading somewhere.. Kraven did well on the idea, imma definitely look into it. 90% of this thread r people complaining the indicator not working. Such a waste of potential really. But I guess it's for the ...

COT trading system with free indicator

Hey do u still trade based on Larry Williams indicator?

Coding Larry Williams Greatest Swing Value (GSV)

all i can say is that, the stock market has the most reliable volume data than the other markets. futures is ok but it is just a fraction of the whole FX market. although we don't get all the volume data that is out there, at least we have an edge ...

unified real volume data