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- yaft replied Feb 21, 2011
The idea is simply to make back your loss on the underlying assumption you were wrong and thus the market is heading in the other direction. As it's a 1-1 strategy it needs to be > 50% success rate. It's used as part of the system rather than money ...
- yaft replied Feb 21, 2011
I've heard it called Forward Testing before in that you don't need to wait for live market conditions. This isn't optimising though, you don't change the parameters. The paremeters you set on the original test must remain static through the wider ...
- yaft replied Feb 21, 2011
Stop & Reverse Example — Here's an example. We were looking to buy the break of the high in the hopes of a continuation but the market got choppy and went straight back down. We got stopped out and immediately reversed the trade taking ...
- yaft replied Feb 21, 2011
Curve Fitting — Disclaimer - I'm not an expert! Curve fitting is dangerous assuming you did curve fit, e.g. you optimised your parameters for the time period you tested. Those parameters then only apply to that period of time. When I design ...
- yaft replied Feb 21, 2011
Stop & Reverse — A stop & reverse can work well with EURUSD when you're trading a 15 pip stop (adjust for current volatility) even if you only use it to claim back some of your losses. Need to keep an eye on the news but you can range ...
- yaft replied Feb 21, 2011
Backtest? — Shouldn't be too hard to backtest this method. It leaves little room for discretion. How much back testing have you done? Am I correct in that your trailing stop skips from BE at 1R to then lock in 2R only when you hit 3R? Other ...
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