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- Tarvold replied Jan 20, 2016
I think it's a complete waste of time to talk about Risk/reward and stop sizes without talking about how it affects the strike rate of your strategy. Here's a quick example - Risk/reward ratio of 3/4, a strike rate of 80% and who wouldn't say no to ...
- Tarvold replied Jan 10, 2016
Here is what will happen depending on your win rate: image image image image image image This is what happens to your strategy: image
- Tarvold replied Jan 8, 2016
It ended up losing about 10% before London open on a Monday, so I shut it down.
- Tarvold replied Dec 23, 2015
Ah cool. That makes more sense. My solution to this is to use a non standard tf for renko like 2-3min.
- Tarvold replied Dec 22, 2015
Why does timeframe matter if it's renko?
- Tarvold replied Dec 21, 2015
8 hours into the week so far, and I'm about to hit about 10% drawdown. Seems consistent with your stats. Turning it off now. It's been fun.
- Tarvold replied Dec 20, 2015
Quick update. So being the sucker for pain that I am, and since it's a demo account anyway, I left ver 1.7 running. Since the week's open so far, (about 2 hours ago), it's lost 1% of account. BTW, I am not posting this to diss Math or Skyler... I ...
- Tarvold replied Dec 18, 2015
Thanks for the tip!
- Tarvold replied Dec 18, 2015
Ok, made some minor tweaks. Just to clarify, I'm running version 1.7. Because I found a lot of the trades from yesterday were stopped out prematurely, I have now decided to forward test with these settings: image The setup/pairs list I'm running ...
- Tarvold replied Dec 17, 2015
Looking at the 1 trade that's still open, I am suspecting that the trailing stop settings (currently left at default) can be optimized.
- Tarvold replied Dec 17, 2015
First update: image
- Tarvold replied Dec 17, 2015
Thanks to everyone who's contributed. I'm opening up a new demo account on IC Markets to forward test this 24/7 for the remainder of the year.
- Tarvold replied Sep 28, 2015
Here is what FXCM thought about leverage not too long ago - url Specifically - "FXCM’s experience in Hong Kong, where significantly lower leverage levels are mandated by law, suggests lower leverage results in more successful trading. As another ...
- Tarvold replied Sep 28, 2015
Leverage and position size is not the point. The point is that FXCM is misleading their clients and forcibly increasing their risk exposure.
- Tarvold replied Sep 25, 2015
This may have been brought up here before, but I'm furious about this now, so here goes... I have an account with FXCM Australia that was recently switched to a mini account. Fine, so be it. But in the process, FXCM bumped up my leverage from 50:1 ...
- Tarvold replied Dec 2, 2014
Hope everyone survived the fall ok.
- Tarvold replied Dec 2, 2014
I think you're overestimating the competency of the RBA.
- Tarvold replied Dec 2, 2014
It might go up a little, but over the next 18 months, this pair is going to tank.
- Tarvold replied Dec 2, 2014
Managed to catch a short again at 0.85334. Woohoo!
- Tarvold replied Dec 2, 2014
Doh! oh well...