Traders' Roundtable

Hi,

when trading blox backtests on a FX system do you have to put in the leverage you want to use or does it do it automatically?

in other words if you want to trade $10 000 in the base currency you have to have $10 000 in your account unless you gear it up greater than 1?

thanks,

Hi, I have a question regarding how the Monte Carlo is calculated. You mention in the user guide that often consecutive down days occur in greater frequency than a normal distrubution. When Trading Blox generates new equity curves does it model this tendency of markets? (1) Also how does trading blo...

I am also trying to ascertain what to do when one generates a order at a certain price but the market opens above that price.

Do you wait or do you just take the best price you can at the open?

I suppose the most important question is what does the system do in testing?

Thanks,

Josiah

Hi, I am struggling to resolve the entry into the market. I have never used the system before and consequently generated my first orders this morning. What i discovered was that most of the markets i want to trade are already in a trend. In other words if i followed the orders right now i would be b...

Hi, I am new to mechanical trading and was wondering whether someone could tell how to handle limit up days? in other words, if i get a buy signal and the market has gone limit up, do i buy the next day, ignore that trade or put a bid in below the market and wait and see if i get taken? Thanks, Josiah