I understand the "statistics" that nearly 100% of traders fail. I have a unique perspective in that I can actually see our clients accounts and...
I live and breathe autotrading forex, and have done it for a very long time. I assure you it can be done, and money can be made. That being...
It's actually really simple. There is a human there making the market deviate. So they know exactly when they are doing it. During those times...
Some other traders in our collective do vary trade size frequently from trade to trade, and do amazingly well. I'll ask them to chime in on their...
You are quite correct, sorry for the confusion. If all you have is 25,000 then the rule of thumb is to allocate no more than 10% towards...
I was just replying to a thread where someone has been practicing, and they think they are ready to go, all they could manage to scrape together...
The account balance doesn't mean a thing, it's in the money management. The question is: what is the frequency of your signal, the expectation...
I think that it might be your broker, or your latency to your brokers server, or their latency to their LP. We literally execute many trades...
If your trading depends on latency, consider direct to API. We found that going through MT4 adds a little latency, probably less than 5ms. The...
I agree, all new strats are (and should be) forward live tested before they get fed more money. Trader 5of7 @ TheCollectiveFX.com
I strongly disagree as well. There are indeed strategies that are profitable. Of course each equity-curve profile will require differing...
There are lots of ways to filter a strategy (when it is good, when it is bad), google it and numerous methods and ways of evaluating strategy...
We have done it with Tradestation and Metatrader, but that was eons ago and my old code is on a dusty DVD somewhere since we don't use TS or MT4...
RoughTrader is correct in many aspects he mentioned with respect to Tradestation. Clearly someone who has been around : - ) Consider also that...
There are basically two walk-forwards. One is random walk-forward testing. The other is walk-forward re-optimization. Both are based on...
Also consider metatrader and tradestation. Both have very extensive support forums, deep and rich with information and examples. Both of them...
Actually the software works from an aggregate perspective, knowing where the clustering of orders is and the market offered to the broker. It's...
Well, I firmly believe that there are other influences in the 90% failure number in the real world. Recently we did an experiment and wrote an...
I would have to think that a good portion of the losers are those that "swung for the fences" for the competition, and uh, missed : - ) Trader...
From a system/autotrader perspective, MT4 is really one of the best solutions for learning how to system trade, back test, etc. There are lots...
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