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Collective FX has LOST its Mojo. (New Feed is WORSE)

hypothetically, yes you would be stuck with your dollars... but it would be only a number in some electronic system... you couldn't even wipe your behind with that electronic dollars anyway... i know that that scenario extremely improbable, but i ...

Can you lose your entire account?

Stop Loss — It may not be probable, but it is possible. For example you are short EUR/USD and a nuclear attack on USA happens... Suddenly everyone holding dollars is trying to sell them and so are you with your stop order. What you refer to as ...

Can you lose your entire account?

If you would have a positive expectancy and everything else being equal, 10 x 0.1 bets would be better than a one 1.0 bet. But chances that you have a positive expectancy are not big... oh and BTW, the market doesn't give a $hit what your goal is.

What is best strategy to make $100 Daily?

Right now i have no concrete results, because i am in the middle of a big code rewrite. But from what i can tell until now, i am on a similar route as you are... not too similar, but we have a few similar ideas. Normally i am rather skeptical when ...

Systematic trading

not at all, it is interesting to see how things are taking shape. few questions about the data: do you use only one-minute bar data? do you somehow filter and/or post-process the data? do you check for things like errors in the data (for example ...

Systematic trading

i did not mean that you shouldn't use it at all... i am just saying that it is only an estimate with some error in it, so one has to be cautious and not expect wonders. you say that all of the algos are only a variation on some basic strategy so i ...

Systematic trading

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Brand-spanking new tick database.

don't expect wonders from it. the covariance you calculate from the backtest is only an estimate, as is variance and the profit (usually the profit estimate has the biggest errors, errors in variance are lover and errors in covariance estimates are ...

Systematic trading

where will the data come from? i mean, its an OTC market, therefore every liquidity provider will generate different set of tick data and the differences can between data feeds from different brokers can be quite large. If you develop your strategy ...

Brand-spanking new tick database.

indeed, it is pretty obvious, that for a trend to develop on a longer timeframe it has to first develop on a shorter one... so having a trend on a longer timeframe withouth trends on a shorter one is pretty impossible. oh well... one man's trend is ...

Forex Mentors - The Best Investment You Can Make?

hi mikkom, the bug you remove seem to have made a huge difference. you were right, it looked too good to be true the current results seem much more realistic. i am not sure what you mean by "using combined curve"... care to elaborate? anyway the ...

Systematic trading

you are right, he can also use fundamental data in his strategies, as long as it is quantifiable. But my guess is that large part of his strategies are purely technical. For example many forms of statistical arbitrage and pretty much any kind of ...

From 10k to 1 million...

Nah, i just think that it is a good complement to the Kelly criterion... kind of looking on the problem from the opposite side, not asking "how much should i bet to get the maximum return" but instead asking "how much should i bet so that my risk of ...

Maxmizing Your Returns

Seems like Benjamin has some holes in his research. url url

From 10k to 1 million...

Don't worry mate, you can be proud of yourself anyway, because you have come up with it on your own... that shows that you have the skills that are needed in this business. BTW you might want to also take a look at the so-called "Risk of ruin".

Maxmizing Your Returns

Kelly criterion — Congratulations, you just reinvented the Kelly criterion url

Maxmizing Your Returns

Hello opie999, i agree with you that this is easily solvable as there is no genuine morale dilemma present (i think almost anyone would agree that saving a live is clearly more important than not to steal and therefore it is easy to decide what to ...

The Ethics of Trading - Is Trading Parasitic?

Well there are some rules that are defined by law so there is a kind of code for acceptable behavior. Everything beyond that is pretty much a matter of personal freedom, opinion etc. yup, sounds like an onxymoron to me

The Ethics of Trading - Is Trading Parasitic?