Cool. You are getting some of it but not quite there. First your risk is not your margin. That is something you should differentiate from risk. The easiest way is just to forget about margin altogether and pretend it is not there -- at least from a ...

Question for Dialist and everyone else

[QUOTE=Beachie41]I guess my point is that changes in leverage ONLY come from a change in the ratio of position size to account size. All the rest of the maximum permitted leverage and margin stuff really just complicate everything and tend to ...

Question for Dialist and everyone else

Wow talk about selective memory. I recall saying "you're kidding right?" So let me try again... "you're kidding right?" FT

I'm loving Candle Sticks, newbie's check'em out

This thread continues to be for VantagePoint software discussion. The thread that is for suggesting systems for evaluation has moved to .... well the title says it all. FT

VantagePoint discussion thread

[QUOTE]I find this misleading because you use two different money management ideas in the same sentence. If you are trading a %r money management system and you are betting 1% of your account per trade you can make 69 losing trades in a row before ...

Question for Dialist and everyone else

[QUOTE]I find this misleading because you use two different money management ideas in the same sentence. If you are trading a %r money management system and you are betting 1% of your account per trade you can make 69 losing trades in a row before ...

Question for Dialist and everyone else

The author is known as "soultrader" on MT. Don't know his real name. ft

The 5 Steps to becoming a trader

As far as I know they are listening. I sent the link to the various comments from people to Lane Mendelsohn and he said he'd forward it to the sales department. I hope it does some good. Usually customers are worth listening to and do not give ...

When to walk away...

Yes I have. The day trading sample system I posted in the "fiji reports" section is the best I've seen in a sideways market. The predicted highs and lows seem to be more accurate in sideways action. In a trending market the day trading system for VP ...

When to walk away...

If my response to your questions seems combative it was not intended. I take no offense from your questions. When I said "if you were implying..." I meant "if". If you were not implying that then my answer does not apply. I was not sure what you ...

Important RE: Genesis Data

Beginning with your last comment first. If you are implying that I have anything to gain because VantagePoint advertises here you are mistaken. As was clearly mentioned by Merlin and myself -- I do not write articles or change them because someone ...

Important RE: Genesis Data

Responding first to your final statement -- I don't know how it makes sense to assume that using VP software would take the work out of trading. For most the process of developing a system or finding a system is about matching up the things that ...

Important RE: Genesis Data

Thanks for your feedback. I've been aware that VantagePoint can be quite agressive in their sales approach but this is the first time I've heard of someone being inundated by three different sales people from there in such a short time period. I'm ...

Important RE: Genesis Data

Thanks for the great suggestion and feedback I'll take a look at that program and let you know what I think. FT

Important RE: Genesis Data

My first experience with forex after trading for a few days was to pull 89 trades in a row without a loss on a demo account. I traded without stops and most trades were gbp. I set targets of 5 pips and rarely went beyond that target but got a few ...

uncommon? 51 trades I never lost

MD thanks for your feedback. I almost edited your reference to moneytec but not because I don't want the site mentioned here but because I read the thread over there. It was such a joke and the comments people made were so clearly uninformed that I ...

Important RE: Genesis Data

Thanks my friend. You are right about the decline in service for the most part. You have no idea though how much better it is in America than most places overseas. I've been round the world and I can say that at least in the US good service is ...

Important RE: Genesis Data

Complaint about Data — An additional complaint about the data provider Genesis is posted in a separate article I've posted in this forum. I highly recommend not dealing with them. There are two other data providers CSI and CRB that both ...

Product Review: VantagePoint Software

If I was going to place a bet I'd bet against committee trading in general. In other words I don't think that an ad hoc group of traders can get together on a forum and discuss trades while trading and come out very successful. People are too prone ...

Working together as a team