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- Thu Dec 01, 2011 1:09 pm
- Forum: Trader Psychology
- Topic: Serious Question to Forum Traders
- Replies: 15
- Views: 15000
Re: fiat currency, gold standard, etc. Can't this effect be studied by having an XAU/USD forex file and setting the Blox base currency to XAU? Here is a basic LTTF system run over the Blox standard US futures. First chart is USD base currency. Second chart is XAU base currency. I didnt think they w...
- Thu Dec 01, 2011 12:38 pm
- Forum: Trader Psychology
- Topic: Serious Question to Forum Traders
- Replies: 15
- Views: 15000
- Fri Nov 04, 2011 1:32 pm
- Forum: Testing and Simulation
- Topic: Will somebody please do this research? / has anyone already?
- Replies: 45
- Views: 22675
- Thu Nov 03, 2011 2:30 pm
- Forum: Testing and Simulation
- Topic: Will somebody please do this research? / has anyone already?
- Replies: 45
- Views: 22675
- Thu Oct 20, 2011 1:06 pm
- Forum: Trader Psychology
- Topic: Current Market Psychology
- Replies: 11
- Views: 11049
- Thu Oct 06, 2011 1:17 pm
- Forum: Money Management
- Topic: What happens when your porfolio correlates to 1?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7220
What happens when your porfolio correlates to 1?
I have not found it beneficial to limit total risk in my systems. I think this is primarily due to having uncorrelated instruments in the portfolio. Adding more and more uncorrelated instruments while increasing total risk, should decrease "effective" risk. However, what happens if the ins...
- Mon Sep 26, 2011 3:12 pm
- Forum: Money Management
- Topic: When To Start Your System?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 26246
Why not test it and see... You could step the start date and on that date take all positions, or from that date, only take new entries. There are pros and cons to either path. Look out one week, month, quarter, x years... See what has happened in those time frames individually and as a group. Excel...
- Wed Sep 21, 2011 10:31 pm
- Forum: Trader Psychology
- Topic: Beware the outside investor with the iron stomach...
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7856
I have a client who is an active stock trader dip-buyer. I'm not sure how that is going to work out for him in the next bear market, but I'm in a 45% draw down and he increased his investment by 75% recently and convinced a buddy to open an account too to take advantage of the dip. We need a stable ...
- Wed Sep 07, 2011 11:50 pm
- Forum: Futures Markets
- Topic: Non Trending Futures
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5059
- Wed Sep 07, 2011 11:29 am
- Forum: Futures Markets
- Topic: Non Trending Futures
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5059
- Wed Aug 17, 2011 9:32 am
- Forum: Testing Software
- Topic: Programming Q
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5229
- Wed Aug 17, 2011 1:27 am
- Forum: Testing Software
- Topic: Programming Q
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5229
Programming Q
I posted this on the MT4 board with no response yet. I am printing the following statement: Print(Order_Symbol, ",", Order_Quantity, ",",(OrderType() == 1),",", (Order_Quantity == 0)); It returns (symbol, 0, 1, 0) Any idea how Order_Quantity = 0 and Order_Quantity == 0 ...
- Fri Aug 12, 2011 10:45 pm
- Forum: Money Management
- Topic: So Predictable...
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5426
- Fri Aug 12, 2011 11:31 am
- Forum: Testing Software
- Topic: Anyone here familiar with MT4?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 14733
- Thu Aug 11, 2011 12:00 pm
- Forum: Testing Software
- Topic: Anyone here familiar with MT4?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 14733
- Wed Aug 10, 2011 1:06 pm
- Forum: Testing Software
- Topic: Anyone here familiar with MT4?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 14733
Anyone here familiar with MT4?
Does it have any portfolio management capabilities, like can I run a simple script to close x% of all open positions?
- Tue Jul 26, 2011 8:37 pm
- Forum: Testing and Simulation
- Topic: Blend which other system types w/LTTF for smoother eq curve?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 15237
This post comes to mind:Chuck B wrote:I did years of research on this type of thing back about 15 years ago...
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- Mon Jul 25, 2011 10:31 pm
- Forum: Futures Markets
- Topic: London Sugar and London Coffee (Robusta)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7471
- Fri Jul 22, 2011 10:04 pm
- Forum: Testing and Simulation
- Topic: Blend which other system types w/LTTF for smoother eq curve?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 15237
Let us not forget soon-to-be professional trader LeviF's recommendation: Simultaneously trade several copies of your trend-following system, where each copy uses the exact same entries but different exits, arranged thus: Let copy #1 be the original, unmodified system which Lets Profits Run a la tre...
- Mon Jul 04, 2011 6:19 pm
- Forum: Testing and Simulation
- Topic: Profit Target exits improve this system's performance
- Replies: 63
- Views: 49011