Any strategy that can executed by computer cant be based on prediction. A computer cant predict. It has no notion of the future. It can only...
No you go are going with the flow, you dont anticipate which way it goes after you get in. No one can do that, no one can predict the future...
Buying a breakout or whatever criteria is used, is not a prediction. It only tells you what the market is doing now. It doesn't and cant...
A true trend following trader does not care which way it will go after they get in. They follow the flow of the market. If going with the...
If you follow someone down the street are you predicting where they are going? If you follow the market, you aren't predicting where it is...
Trend following is 'following' and not trend 'prediction'. If a market starts to make a move you follow it. If it doesn't make a move you dont...
Having said that.. looking at a long term chart of the VIX. It stayed below 20 for about 5 years in the 90s (approx 1991 to 1996). And 3...
The markets we have at the moment are have ok (medium) volatility, and you can still make a good profit. 2008 was insane volatility. perhaps...
You can have a blast for $2million, you dont have to blow the whole $10mill. But if you got an addiction to gambling or crack then its all going...
Hats off to marketsurfer for making live market calls in this journal. Takes quite some balls to do this. Marketsurfer has hit a bit of a...
If you experienced enough to have developed one or more good trading edges then figuring out how to add to positions shouldn't be a problem for you.
What do you reckon his win rate is? It looks to be below 50% from what i have seen over the last year. He slags off TA but his Price Drivers...
Good overnight support volume in GC, 150K contracts traded so far. Looks like the sellers have finished up for now. Did the OP take his...
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Trade2win is more for the UK bucket shop crowd, spread betting and shady forex firms.
Its good the OP has made a call to go with the trend, however he is way too late to the short party, the big trend following funds will be short...
How many contracts? If you dont tell us, then you can fiddle the books. If goes against you then you can say it was only 1 or 2 contract....
I note his losing YM trade was $25 per tick (5 contracts) So he then goes to bet $100 a tick on CL (10 contracts). Now even a coin flip will...
Do you have a YTD trade log so we can verify this claim? The two closed CL trades on this thread means he is down $55,000 on them. There was...
How much gold is he carrying and from what price level?
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