frostengine, at this point I'm just planning for the backtest of that apparently successful setup, therefore I don't need to be picky on the...
Markets ain't random. At least, not all the time. To begin with, markets do have "memory". Well, if anything it's the memory of eg all these...
I've been using for the last few weeks a fairly known setup/system which I have slightly modified to fit my requirements (intraday - as in intra...
I beg to differ. If he's consistently posting badly losing trades, I will happily take the other side of each of those trades. More than...
Well, sometime the other guy's excessive greed can be your gain. :) That is, unless their account size is a thousand times yours, in which...
Well I guess the discussion is drifting away from the original OP intent and extending in scope, not that it's bad by any means... :) There are...
I understand and in fact agree with your note of caution. However in my case the scale at which this has happened in the recent past largely...
HowardCohodas, or maybe I just speculated a touch on what you wrote. :-] Allright gals and boyz, c'mon... there MUST be more to it than this....
The missed opportunity risk: you "see" a good setup, but you don't take the trade because you lack confidence and/or you screwed the last trade...
tiddlywinks, what you call "drawdown" and "unrealized reward" (I think you mean on a per trade basis) is what I refer to as "MAE" and "MFE", which...
HowardCohodas, when you said " Even when I do nothing, I may note some concerns and areas to monitor ", I thought you meant that you do record...
Te laisse pas faire, Laissez Faire... :p I live in Paris and have CNBC use one 1/4 of the screen on my 2nd monitor, running the whole trading...
Allright, this is what I'd call a "vanilla" trade log/journal - though I'm not familiar with credit spreads trading and might therefore be missing...
Thanx for the detailed answer HowardCohodas. :) I do agree that keeping notes of why you took a specific trade at a specific moment in time is...
Just read the first few pages of this thread, saw the analogy with cars but don't think it's a useful analogy. Someone mentionned indicators...
It's all in the title really. In the process of developing my own suite of tools to support my trading (day trading on indices, sort of...
FWIW: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rHLGJq79ZU&NR=1
I usually set hard stops at the point specified by my strat (if I have one ^^). However in an ideal world where I know I can control my...
Was wondering whether someone already tried to backtest a random walk. :) Seriously though, one could create the equivalent of many years of...
Ah, that's why! You cheated, you used 2 different computers! :p Well done anyway, as for me since I revisited the same page (url) twice on the...
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