Sounds like a lot of screen time to me.
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DislikedOk so my equity went over 3% today after DD from Friday turned positive overall, I'm putting my profitable EAs on hold for now whilst I try a new one, I'll admit it's along the lines of Rob's one sided method mentioned above. I backtested it over the weekend and whilst it didn't produce any better results in terms of profit than my existing, the DD figures were better. Need to see how it plays out automatically and might need the margin, will see. Might change my handle to SpendHoursAtWeekendsCodingThenLazyTradesIgnored
DislikedOther TPs hit but long EJ & UJ so waiting game employed on these two, EAs dropping buy stops on the way down.Ignored
DislikedSo this week will end in DD as lots of trades open and it's just something to get used to with this style of trading. I've been out most of the day and just left the EAs to their thing, some trades closed at TP and some in the waiting pool, short MXNUSD, long EURJPY, short NZDUSD, short EU and long GU. Have a good weekend all.Ignored
DislikedI’ve been in profit for many weeks and have yet to drop below deposit level although prepared to do so if required. The problem is as soon as you increase lot size you have to get used to new levels of DD but backtesting has prepared me for this. I just look at losing trades as profits yet to mature or take the hit when all trades in profit overall. I honestly don’t think you can get used to the mindset unless you are trading live IMO.Ignored
Dislikedhedging as we know it should be best practiced with physical, tangible assets. and not liquid assets. carrying out hedged operation on liquid instruments/assets that inversely complement each other won't produce the optimal net returns desired, long-term. (my opinion)Ignored