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- jeuro replied Apr 21, 2013
. I just gave you one Gumrai...,, what else you want. . I do improve my return, by a great deal by Hedging when is necessary. Your problem is having a very little understanding about hedging. A few have mentioned it but fly right over your ...
- jeuro replied Apr 21, 2013
It is not a thing of being a hedge lover Gumbai. Hedging is a "tool" that have been around forever and well used in all markets... but like any tool you need to know how and when to use it. You probably not figure out an strategy that would ...
- jeuro replied Apr 21, 2013
There is no extra cost on spreads and commission. ... and swaps maybe. But swaps is a cost of doing business. No one cut loss a trade (losing or winning) just because the roll over time is happening. J.
- jeuro replied Apr 21, 2013
The reason would be the same then using a SL.... to stop the loss at that point. Like I said in my previous post... makes no difference to use and SL or a hedge to cut the loss at the pre-determinat point according to the specific strategy we are ...
- jeuro replied Apr 21, 2013
. Ati baja. There one thing I do not really understand from you first post. You want to Optimize??? or you want to choose the best?? Obviously you are not a newbie, but why would you like to choose or optimize?. Even the worse stat you posted in ...
- jeuro replied Apr 21, 2013
. Not much difference between stooping a loss with an hedge or use SL. Hedging is just to own and hold 2 instruments. But "hedging" is not an strategy by itself. The swap could be a problem with a few currencies but most are not. J.
- jeuro replied Apr 20, 2013
Well .. yea.. I can agree to a point..but in general we know certain "expectations" that occur in real money account, and we have control to factor them IN to the backtest. Is all about having the "proper expectation" according to the strategy we ...
- jeuro replied Apr 20, 2013
If you are working with a 1/1 R/R, and like you said, can adjust the lot size to obtain the same profits... the only thing that would justify to go the 1050 trades route is if you are with a new Broker that give you a bonus according to volume ...
- jeuro replied Apr 20, 2013
What I interpret the point that RaptorUK is making is that the a "forward test" "can't tell you either what you can expect in the future. Say you create a strategy... and when you backtest the "first time", (say you run a backtest of 2 months) that ...
- jeuro replied Apr 20, 2013
. As a long time strategy creator it is impossible to give an opinion without knowing the strategy itself. "You" are the only one that could work in the optimization efficiently. But here are a few general ideas from experience: First...If the ...
- jeuro replied Apr 19, 2013
Yea.. they can print... but means little for the "exchange" market. Used to mean a lot but not anymore. Printing does not mean is going into the exchange market. But it can... is the case of the Swiss and the Japs. The "sell" loads of it when it ...
- jeuro replied Apr 18, 2013
No. The ask price and the bid price are just 2 prices. The ask is the price the Broker is asking for a currency. So, if you want to buy you have to pay the ask price. The bid is the price the Broker is offering to purchase currency. So, if you want ...
- jeuro replied Apr 18, 2013
Yes, Lmax does offer mt4 to individual clients but there is a difference. I am not a tech person but in layman term is like this... Mt4 needs a bridge to connect to liquidity. There is several companies that provide these bridges to institutional ...
- jeuro replied Apr 18, 2013
. Perhaps a few reflections would help.: When people say that the forex market is the most liquid of all markets, it means that regardless of what currency you want to purchase , or own and want to sell, you will find a counter party and be filled ...
- jeuro replied Apr 17, 2013
That was my opinion. There is no "best". It is not a question if manual or auto is good, bad or best... It is a question if an "strategy" is good or bad or best. Manually ( I agree with MichaelPelly) It is easy to make 1-2"% per month average. ...
- jeuro replied Apr 16, 2013
good one j
- jeuro replied Apr 16, 2013
.. Really.. Just google the country and you will see. I have been to their offices a couple times. Very clean operation. J.
- jeuro replied Apr 15, 2013
Dukascopy is one of the Banks. J.
- jeuro replied Apr 15, 2013
. It is long to explain. In essence, all manual trading is based in some visual. Can be a visual of a naked chart (price action)or a visual of lines or guided by some indicators. ... So, the impossible part is to make the "algorithm" of what we see. ...
- jeuro replied Apr 15, 2013
Hi Bull.bear. My experience is the complete opposite. My findings after almost 9 years of manual trading and almost 4 since I started to look into automation is that manual and automatic trading need to be taking with a complete different approach. ...