Mine's 1.3 for an average win and -0.6 for an average loss. Obviously I too have some more losses than wins. Very good average loss size, btw....
What kind of an average realized per-trade expectancy does your discretionary system yield in the long run? Of course, this depends on your...
I have been an IB UK client for many years. I recall having their account protection scheme confirmed somewhere in 2008-2009 during the subprime...
I would go further in stating (as boldly as I dare): It does not matter, and one should not care as long as the trading plan is followed with...
Sure, but I think exits are covered by the topic of prudent trade management. My system provides me an edge of about 0.07-0.15 times the risk per...
Although there is more to items #2 and #6 than this, in principle I agree that this strategy would indeed suffice for making money in the long...
Exactly!! Plus it is a whole lot more entertaining than the book I referred to, let alone Mankiw's. Now that we have Economics 101 on Youtube,...
Sorry, not really. You may want to take a glimpse at "Keynes Hayek: The Clash that Defined Modern Economics". Being history-focused, it does not...
Thank you, I'll look into that. Z
Apologies for going a bit off-topic, but since there seem to be a handful of knowledgeable people on the thread, here goes. Being a citizen of...
I have been with Interactive Brokers for a good 4 years now, and they seem to do a solid job on my current trading horizon; at present my trades...
That's exactly what I do too. I'm constantly looking for an invalidation of the basic premise for entering the trade in the first place. If the...
Are you saying that whatever happens to the price after your entry is irrelevant? It's either stop or target no matter what? As for myself, I...
Ha! (Re-read my post, you mook, the stops and targets were there already.) :D
When "all the stars are aligned" and you have placed a trade (plus the target and stop orders if they apply to your trading methodology), what do...
Hello everyone I and my associates are building a software tool for the systematic back-testing of manual trading systems, i.e. systems where...
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