Recent Content by aceholic

  1. Gold/Silver trading - which exchanges these days?

    CBOT trading was bought out by NYSE LIFFE and is a reasonable option depending on your strategies. The most active exchange right now is COMEX...
    Post by: aceholic, Jul 22, 2009 in forum: Commodity Futures

  2. markets mirror

    Do yourself a favor. Try putting the USD as the denominator in all charts where it's part of a pair (chart it as 1/USDCAD, 1/USDCHF, 1/USDJPY,...
    Post by: aceholic, Jul 17, 2009 in forum: Forex

  3. Gold futures

    Most of your answers can be found here http://www.nymex.com/GC_spec.aspx Use the links on the left hand side. The Tokyo commodity exchange...
    Post by: aceholic, Jul 10, 2009 in forum: Commodity Futures

  4. Volume analysis is to be discarded as it is "too much information"

    Let's replace "volume" with "previous price action" in your above example. Price can move up after it doesn't move for X period of time. Price...
    Post by: aceholic, Jul 9, 2009 in forum: Strategy Building

  5. fx is a dead game

    1.5:1 would significantly hurt retail FX. Let's hope that never becomes a reality. However, lowering to around 25:1 won't destroy the game. It...
    Post by: aceholic, Jul 7, 2009 in forum: Forex

  6. Volume analysis is to be discarded as it is "too much information"

    My standard strategies do not use volume in any way. However, I do have one or two successful strategies that use volume extensively in certain...
    Post by: aceholic, Jul 7, 2009 in forum: Strategy Building

  7. Volume--- how to use it and WHY

    Thanks, I thought so too and it's nice to see someone actually bringing something to this discussion. The fact that there's varied viewpoints...
    Post by: aceholic, Jul 6, 2009 in forum: Strategy Building

  8. Volume--- how to use it and WHY

    Because either you or they aren't seeing the whole market.
    Post by: aceholic, Jul 2, 2009 in forum: Strategy Building

  9. Volume--- how to use it and WHY

    Price and volume (and the order book) are the only pieces of information given by the market. Why would you choose to ignore information when...
    Post by: aceholic, Jul 2, 2009 in forum: Strategy Building

  10. The real reason for the extreme tough trading in the FX?

    Central banks aren't out looking for profit. My understanding is that they are often the biggest givers of profit.
    Post by: aceholic, Jun 24, 2009 in forum: Forex

  11. Holy Grail!! I found it..

    I've noticed a few new holes in your holy grail this time. 1) You still aren't protected from major economic events. The market will often...
    Post by: aceholic, Jun 22, 2009 in forum: Strategy Building

  12. Holy Grail!! I found it..

    Proflogic, Perhaps the words “intolerable drawdowns” was a bit too harsh. Even a system that was caught like a deer in headlights during...
    Post by: aceholic, Jun 19, 2009 in forum: Strategy Building

  13. Holy Grail!! I found it..

    You say that a system that is based on your desired type of chart will never have intollerable drawdowns? That's crazy. All it takes is one...
    Post by: aceholic, Jun 19, 2009 in forum: Strategy Building

  14. Holy Grail!! I found it..

    The "only run your system when it will work" idea is similar to the idea of only going long when the market is going to go up and only get short...
    Post by: aceholic, Jun 18, 2009 in forum: Strategy Building

  15. What Eurex Does Not Tell The Traders

    Backtesting. Plenty of quants/traders think backtesting is the answer to the next great strategy. So they buy the data and then run 1000s of...
    Post by: aceholic, Jun 9, 2009 in forum: Index Futures