Size will depend mainly on the projected stop-loss and risk percent. If the stop-losss is 3% or 3K and you want to limit risk to 10$ then the size...
No need to "sigh", I understand all about open equity. Do you know the maintenance margin requirement of all those trades, your overall leverage...
Maybe I have seen this journal in the past but I do not remember now. My question is: How come although the last 3 or 4 trades were losers the...
Profit factor > 1 means net profit but nothing specific. Some kid with a $50 micro forex account can have a PF = 50 but net only $10 at the end of...
NNs is a curve-fitting method. Very useful where curve-fitting is required, completely useless where curve-fitting is to be avoided, like in trading.
Braincell is trying to figure it out..
What do you mean by that? Every system developed using historical data is an artifact of data mining. Did you mean maybe "curve-fitted"? That is a...
It seems that braincell cannot deal with data in a proper way. Yet, braincell is an expert. Sounds too much of a contradiction to me.
It's probably a lot worse that that. Probably 99.95% of all traders lose 100% of their capital. But keep in mind that most of them start with $100...
The same problem is present with intraday bars unless you exit at the end of the day. Welcome to real backtesting... Edit: you know what...
Day trading is a form of addiction for 99.99% of those who are involved. They justify their addiction as a form of occupation. Only 0.01% knows...
http://www.google.com/search?q=payoff+ratio+ do you get to google in your area? :)
Thanks for the links. Very important articles from a serious source. "Mr Zuckerberg will be joining a troubled club. " Good prediction. The...
Socialists are not going to understand you. An IPO is when the creators get paid for their hard work. Socialists have envy. They want people to...
Too many trolls. Just too many...
I think the payoff ratio is more important than the pf. If you can get pr > 2 with no optimization then you may have something. Profit factor is...
This is why I delete the part asking him if he understand it but still you asked about the profit factor, right? Trade volatility is a different...
Your statement doesn't make any sense to me at all. Profit factor is calculated as the ratio of the sum of all winning trades over the sum of all...
Neither very high nor very low pf systems are robust. In my experience the most robust systems maintain a pf between 1.8 and 2.4. Those other high...
You are also wasting your time if you purchase a simple charting software and you start drawing lines all over the place and plotting indicators....
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