You are a good man for paying them back. Pretty much no-one will share a story like that, took you 5 years but you did. Rest assured you're not...
This used to be true for futures traders but less so with introduction of micro and mini contracts. You can also diversify by time frame and long...
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No single strategy works all time. Combining multiple uncorrelated strategies covering diverse set of market conditions is as close as it gets to...
The withdrawal alert is fake and is a huge RED flag. They have a list of all of those combinations in a plain HTML. var nameT = ["Someone from...
I did CANSLIM for some time, also used their MarketSmith service, but ultimately found it difficult to trade as it takes quite a long time to see...
It seems like you've got good number of trades to make it statistically significant. My guess is slippage assumptions will be your main culprit....
Another route to take it to you report your trading as a business income, then you can deduct all costs, also, you get taxed on your Net Gain...
For new readers, here is a quick reminder of why live results typically don't match backtests. If you are trying to come up with a formal...
[ATTACH] Random notes looking at my trading YTD: Most PL this year came from shorts, ~60%. Positions sizes are ~30% smaller on average than in...
The less young I become the more I believe that most self made men will agree - they were just more stupid than most to keep pursuing that...
Another Canadian here. Remember, no trading platform has some magical tools that will make you profitable. I personally think IB (Interactive...
That's life and nice track record so far. Are you a discretionary trader? Why kind of strategies are you using? What's your trading frequency?...
Oh man, that's brutal.. This is ultimately why I'm not putting more than 5% into single stock position anymore. With traditional measure of...
You don't have control over which exchange order gets executed at with SMART. Depending on a volume/type of your trading FIXED commissions might...
Sorry to hear about 20%. That sucks. Good for you keeping your head cool.
Return is irrelevant in this case (I simply used a fraction of account in that test). Just ignore numbers on that axis. Hedging ability is...
It's RealTest. Here is my script TestSettings: AccountSize: 100000 StartDate: 1/1/10 EndDate: 1/1/22 TestName: SPY_HEDGE...
Just ran a simple test that buys both VXX and SPY at the open and closes at the close. 1 SPY to 0.15 VXX seems to be optimal ratio for that...
One cool thing about their MFA optout is that you can't withdraw money using it. So an intruder is kinda stuck trading your account. Re IB...
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