Traders' Roundtable

Roberts,

Not quite sure what you're saying. i.e. What are you saying that VT cannot do that WL can?

Cheers
Steve

MCT,
where are you? In Australia the 2 biggest players would be CMC group & IG Markets, with others coming on board as well (Mann financial, GETfutures).

If you're in the UK, you'd have even more choice I'd imagine.

Leverage can be 10/1, and with some companies, 20/1!

Cheers
Steve

Forum Mgmnt,

Thanks for the honest answer, esp. Bottom line, don't expect returns in stocks to equal those in instruments that afford much higher leverage.

I found this especially interesting: If you want to make high returns in equities you have to be more sophisticated. The simple approaches ...

Do appreciate the response Nathan, but I feel that you have not understood where I'm coming from, & therefore have not actually answered the question.

The realities (as you put it) of the market (in this case, the stock market - non leveraged) dictate that tight initial stops pose a problem when ...

I'm working slightly backwards to the usual order it's done in.
Okay - you have $100,000

You've decided you need at least 10 positions to diversify, and have a rule saying something like, "no more than 3 trades in the same sector."

You also have a "max bet" or position size of $10,000 rule to ...

Actually, correct me if I'm wrong, but VT2.0 looks like it will be doing all of this, including the "advanced statistical analysis" of the Enterprise edition:

http://www.compuvision.com.au/TradeSimEnterprise.htm

http://www.compuvision.com.au/Examples/ ... Report.htm

Cheers
Steve

Get more detail here at the original site for TradeSim:

http://www.compuvision.com.au/TradeSim.htm

Steve
Australia

Forum Mgmnt,

VT 2.0 will compare (how well) with TradeSim - currently the most advanced system tester I can find:

http://www.paritech.com.au/AU/products/software/tradesim.asp

http://www.paritech.com.au/AU/products/software/tradesim_ent.asp

which can be used with metastock (& I believe, other ...