Isn't it possible for you to run a backtest on these markets for the last 3 to 5 years ? That would prove some more than just 2 months of paper...
Automate your trading, and let the computer do the trading. Discipline then becomes mostly a matter of watching w/o interfering with your...
There is a drop of P/F which started pretty much August 1st 2011 ... does not correlate with recent drop in trade frequency.
For my CL reversal system, the last 4 months have generated 34 trades (~ 1 every 2.4 day). From June to November 2011, the number of trades for...
I was lucky enough in a prior career to have a coach for a couple years (she was doing about 1/2 sports coaching, 1/2 business coaching, and on...
This is a great example to work from ... the "signal" you are following is Highs & Lows. Price-prints in between are not (necessarily) noise, most...
I say that the "noise" I see depends on what "signal" (market behavior) I am tracking, and the way to (try to) filter that "noise" also depends on...
No offense, but this is an oversimplified view that ends-up wrong. You are confusing signal lack-of quality with noise. I would bet you are not a...
I believe "noise" hinders traders at 2 levels ... at the highest level (trading plan), it makes it difficult to identify these behaviors...
Very easily, actually ... I keep track of the bar# for each pivot, from that I can retrieve not only all information that pertains to that pivot...
As if starting to sim-trade in a vacuum was better ?! I am quite on the opposite end of the spectrum ... I believe that reading a minimum of 30...
I have to agree with this - and *only* with this :) It is much faster to backtest trading ideas than forward test them. Of course, backtesting...
Not sure what a simple frequency filter trading strategy is ... would you mind elaborating on this?
I have developed many (automated) trading systems, mostly based off price-action (swing H/L), using range chart and volume charts. I never had any...
Really not perfect it seems ... look at your exit Buy shown 814.2 when price is trading about 817 at that time. Idem for 1st entry Long shown...
I came across this chart on a different forum ... I have no idea what any of this represents, but it sure is very pretty.
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My systems only trade based off price-action, so price pivots (aka swing H/L) are what they rely on. I have always used fib ratios...
I only trade automated these days, and my only goal wrt execution is to meet the system theoretical performance (which for me means no overriding...
IMHO, there are really to separate categories of trading / traders: intraday & swing/position. - Intraday trading is the most difficult to get...
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