//----- i might be the least qualified to answer that..... my darwin involvement is just barely over 45 days...... and have no knowledge of institutional fund management..... but, just shootin from the hip, most likely you are correct about fickle investors..... they will bail at the first pot hole...... this is very likely true among traders as well..... strong stomachs are rare..... big is a relative term...... by my definition, the risk engine will help me make more on my big green days and lose more on my big red days..... of that i am sure...... however, someone trading 50 nq contracts will make less if they win and lose less if they lose...... personally, my preference is a reasonable equity curve and i dislike negative months...... but we get what we get......h //-------
allocations run for 3 months in silver and 6 months in gold..... i'm in silver...... mine is now 30k...... each month there is the possibility to add another which size will be dependent on your results........ just some info links below...... it's not something i'd lose sleep over, but noticed your posted ranking can be quite different from what is displayed using the rating calculator......h //----- understanding capital allocations..... withdrawals....... allocations and earnings...... performance fees...... darwin business model...... //--- //-----
pretcher said once, 'manage your positions or the market will manage them for you'....... spent most of this month working power restoration in st pete area of flordia...... should have closed all trades...... did not...... trading suffered..... spilt milk...... pretcher was right....... move on..... //------ unless things turn for the worse, next 30k allotment will be granted 11/1/24...... slight chance of 40k, but hardly worth the consideration...... assuming 30k is granted, total will be 60k...... each allotment is for 90 days..... progress should quicken with each passing month ........ the lessons learned, mistakes corrected, and entys/exits refined should see to that....... next week would be better spent preparing for november......h //------
finished the month just under 12%..... which is enough to secure a second 30k..... all i have to make is 1$ next month to receive decembers 30k..... actually same thing applies for several months..... //------- darwin has a deal out now where you can pay a one time fee , along with making a certain percentage return and receive an additional 100k in funding for all time..... the math of that seems to good to be true..... studied on it hard...... not seeing any negative, went ahead and signed up today...... i need to make 5% to achieve that part...... already paid the fee..... my last trade today was a loss which ended my string of 110 winning trades in a row...... have high hopes for november....h //------- //------ //-----
. Your results tables consistently show remarkably strong profit factors and low max drawdowns. Do I remember it correctly that your approach involves taking many brief scalps in programmed short sequences so that both the profit targets and the stoplosses are close to the entry prices?
//---- no, you must be thinking of someone else...... have never been successful at scalping....... my average trade length should begin to increase this month...... or at least that is my plan.....h
//---- it seems to good to be true...... basically a 100k line of credit you never have to pay back for only 540$ one time fee..... i spent considerable time looking for the catch..... at first glance the cost appeared a negative..... until i thought of all the evaluations i paid more for..... and my pass rate was terrible..... maybe it boils down to how much take home pay someone can make on 100k......h
LOL, sorry for the misunderstanding... was thinking about this thread that talked about blasting with pending orders multiple times, but now see it is likely not automated and on a longer time frame than I had realized.
//----- yes, it's not fully automated..... semi automated...... once the ea alerted to a signal, you would have to manually click an on screen button..... my lot size there in that link was 0.1 because that ea was for the myforexfunds prop firm...... in my private accounts, 0.01 would almost always be used....... it was a fun way to trade..... when the major times frames were down, blasting the zigzag up legs on lower timeframes with very small pending orders worked well...... sometimes i'd end up with hundreds.... once the combined profit was some amount, it would close all...... ibfx used to offer nano lots...... that was better still......h