Have a look at this system on C2 http://www.collective2.com/cgi-perl...79955102&want=publicdetails&systemid=31352619 1300 trades in 4 months 15 trades a day average trade length 20 minutes profit factor 2.1 This is the best I have seen yet,how much better can it get ?
Its a pure scalping (non scalable) system. He never holds winners or losses for more than 4 ticks and averages 2 ticks per trade. This system is completely non scalable past 50 contracts but even at that level he could make 3 million a year so why the fuk is he trading a 1 lot size on a demo account. I doubt he even gets one subscriber at 1500/month.
My profit curve looked just like this when I first started trading futures. I went through a 33% drawdown in 2 months because I didn't fully understand the relationship between risk and reward. This equity curve <b>will</b> take a hit -- it's an absolute given. I think you should jump on board after that. Also, a large part of the gains were generated in one month. That's not a reason to avoid it but it does need to be investigated further. I had a month where I did 127%. It was the month immediately before the 2 months of drawdown. I could still take a 10k account to 35k but it would be at a much slower pace.
Why are they not reporting drawdown fully? Some are reported, some are not. That's actually the best measure of risk. If these numbers are mild then I take back what I said ealier. Write them and ask them. The drawdowns that they do report of minimal.
Do you ever look into the details? If you used C2 autotrading, you would lose $4 more per trade additional, coming out of your $13 average profit. You could never be fast enough to make his "profits" Scalping systems are very hard to be a customer of. This system has a keep-after-slippage of -30% per trade. And an APD of 0.05 (averages $5 per trade profit while experiencing average $100 per trade max Drawdown). This system isn't worth 1500 CENTS per month
I'm 99.9% sure that if you tried to follow this system with even 1 contract it would be unprofitable even while it was producing great results on C2.