BINGO !!! Give the man a cigar !!! Not precisely what I would do, but it's getting deliciously close. Dave
I haven't thought that far ahead or figured out anything - maybe someone else has. I've been demoing this idea on Oanda starting in May - one mid to longer term system on 6 pairs. I've been adding every 50 pips with a 25 pip take profit and a 5% default order size and no stops. I'm not completely happy with the add progression as I can see how I could end up in trouble if USD continues to rise as right now my positoins are all highly correlated. As it worked out I ended up long everything against the dollar half way into the NFP report and so am now with an unrealized underwater and net account balance about even with 55% of account margin used. I've been scalping it some also to help it out LOL. Anyway for adding every 50 pips 5% on 6 pairs is probably too much as the pairs right now all seem quite correlated as they are all against the dollar and all going the same direction. Maybe 3% would be smarter, or I should probably work on the adding progression (more like every 50 pips with 100 pip target - dunno as none of the targets would have been hit yet with that progression) and TP progression - I think there is room there for improvement. The tests are really too short to draw any conclusions so far so my thinking may change as things become clearer.
Let me go though your example. Using a 10 year pool and 100 pip grid spacing 100 pip target points and 100 unit size: 1- Using your Data 10Y High=1.4362 10Y Low= 0.8224 Range= 6,135 pips Current price = 1.2880 2- Buy 1400 Units Calculation: (10year high - current price) / grid spacing * unit size rounded down to nearest grid space (1.4362-1.2880)/0.0100*100 = 1482 Round down to 1400 Sell 4600 Units Calculation: (Current price - 10 year low) / grid spacing * unit size rounded down to nearest grid (1.2880- 0.8220)/0.0100*100 = 4660 Rounded down to 4600 3- set targets: In the account where you went long: set sell limits at 1.2980, 1.3080, 1.3180, 1.3280, 1.3380, 1.3480, 1.3580, 1.3680, 1.3780,1.3880, 1.3980, 1.4080, 1.4180, and 1.4280 all to sell 100 units each. Do just the opposite in the account where you are short. 4- First you would set buy limits in your long account every 100 pips ( 1.2780, 1.2680, ...), and set sell limits in your short account every 100 pips (1.2980, 1.3080, ...) Now Lets say the price goes up to 1.2980, your first target would get hit, and you would close your first 100 units for 100 pips profit, your short account would sell 100 more units with a target at 1.2880, and you would now have to place a new buy stop at 1.2880 with a target at 1.2980 in your long account. Now if it goes up to 1.3080 your second target is hit and you would close your second 100 units, but since you filled your grid first this time you will make 200 pips on it. Your short account will sell 100 more with a target at 1.2980, and you will need to place a new limit order to buy 100 more units at 1.2980 with a target at 1.3080. I hope that made some since. It was good practice for me to work through it. I think this might help give your account a good boost to help it get started, but I don't think I would go with a 10 year high and low. I would probably just look for good support and resistance points to use for my initial grid. David
The DWSTART (hope you don't mind me naming it this) is necessary to start the opening trade when trading this methodoogy IMHO. His work seems reasonable. But why not use a longer time frame? to see what the pool is, since were not gambling? We need to size the trade correctly from the beginning. and this is why: The accelerations can be discussed later to increase yield (don't despair, the accelerations can be awesome, just so we have a realistic non gambling baseline to work from, so that we know when we are gambling). Michael B. P.S. Hey, DW can you put together a little spreadsheet to calculate this and post? as I plan on using your work, because I like it and it FITS me. (remember folks we are searching for your personal grail----is that a song?)
ahh, there is my trading friend wd... perhaps you would give us a glimpse of your world as it pertains to retail inventory strategy! (RIS) No hurry, post when you will, I have the rest of my life Michael B. P.S. Folks, check in this Journal now and then to see how it is going, you may find some great stuff. Newcomers, I know its a lot to read, but you don't have to pay for it, and each post here is moderated and posted for a reason. Remember ALL of you have something to offer. Keep an open mind...find YOUR personal grail...don't gamble...get faith!
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check out the spreadsheet and see if it is ok. I was just thinking that you might not want to go back 10 years, because you will be waiting a long time to get back to some of those prices, if you ever do. If you take a shorter time period you will be able to trade more units / profit target and grow your account faster from the start. Also by the time you reach prices that are 10 years back, your account will be so much bigger that those trades will hardly help.