the way to calculate how good a pair is for this system would depend on 3 things in my opinion 1) what is the yearly or 10y range 2) what is...
you know electric this could work if every pair was broken down scientifically kind of like we did with gbpusd, the 10 best non correlated pairs...
unless someone can show me where i went wrong in my calculations, the correct trade ticket size on oanda (at 50:1 leverage) would be about...
to safely "build the pool" you will have to use such low leverage it makes the whole idea questionable lets take a $100k account that can...
slight martingale would not even make a dent in a strong move like that, you talking 100% ROI? so in 4 to 6 months, its about 30-40% - so boost...
ok revised calculation for you, 30 pips apart move from 1.55 to 1.90 drawdown? 218 000 pips and there is NOWAYS you will profit 300 pips...
I agree with those numbers BUT check the move I am talking about - didnt even happen 2 years ago, check your chart from AUG 2003, when GBP...
Electric I have been trading FX for many years, and I have also followed this grid type of thread for many months.... yes, in my projections of...
for an exmaple, in the worst one way move I found you guys, GBPUSD I calculated that at BEST using the 20 pips short / long spread every 20...
futures: i have been looking at this idea for months, and i dont see how it survives the massive one way moves look at the data, one...
you are missing the point the system never closes losing positions the idea is that on every retrace the system then closes with profits...
even better, if I owned a few of those and people were willing to buy, I would sell them in .001 seconds and move to somwhere else
OMG!!! you gotta be kidding me? if that is what I had to buy I would move to tennessee or montana in .1 seconds
why no long and short in the same pair? can someone explain in simple terms why this would be bad? why not just do the long side of the...
thats the whole point of my post when a stock has record volume (or an index, or a commodity), but the price declines significantly, that is...
well, hmm, it a nationwide statistic? I doubt the types of houses sold month to month vary at all..... probably a very static ratio, within...
what is very interesting is that prices were way down on RECORD volume I dont trade the real estate market, I dont even own a piece of property...
Heya Electric I been following these "trade without knowing direction" threads for months now..... reading through your thread I pretty much...
yes - I understand this - but I have the same thing with my broker : freetrade..... It has not affected me so far, as all my trades are with...
when I opened an account with Oanda, I was concerned about where i was putting my money... this is a cut and paste from an email from one of the...
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