Wow, scary drawdown, there: over 50%?! But only if you'd decided not to let a drawdown of over 50% in 2018 stop you from trading it? Would you really continue trading it, after that? Or would you draw on your great experience of these things and ...

Did the one you were trying to sell before stop working?

Hi TrueFXFunds Who owns the company? Where is your business physically based, and by whom are you regulated, please?

The drawdown shown there is huge. But this is the inevitable reality of methods which are basically a moving average crossover (or, as you've backtested it, a moving average using the slope of a higher moving average as the directional bias): ...

Strange, then, that some of the original Turtles interviewed by Jack Schwager in those "Market Wizards" books not only say the exact opposite, but even offer explanations of why that isn't so? Do you think they have some devious reason for wanting ...

Anyone who imagines that Funding Talent might be a legitimate company, but is open to the possibility that that belief may be a mistaken one, might find this "testimonial" interesting reading - especially if they research it a little further to ...

That's why Frag's advice is exactly the opposite of what you should be doing. The trade he recommends limiting yourself to is the one you should be avoiding. As you've discovered, it seems. I understand. Quickly explains that problem clearly in his ...

Yes - hugely. Probably by around 70-80%. Since you ask.

With unprofitable ones, yes. This is exactly their problem. Some are living in a kind of alternate reality in which they presumably imagine that there's a magic combination of indicators somewhere, waiting to be found, that will enable them to trade ...

Like any other MA-based strategy, in a trending market (when you least need MA indicators) it can be very successful, and in a ranging market (when indicators would be most helpful) its results are no better than random entries. That's not to say it ...

OMG, is it some kind of joke, or are there actually people who "believe in" this stuff???

Exactly. (And that's without mentioning that FTMO require 10% profit in a month and Topstep require 6% without any time-limit at all, and that FTMO costs twice as much to try, and so on.) This is a big part of the problem with FTMO. They're clearly ...

Yes, for many years, now, as an independent ("retail") trader, and before that for many years for a small fund (not quite "institutional"!). I think the mistake to avoid, in principle (here as with many other systems and methods) is the belief that ...

It depends on what you mean by "out there". If you mean "in the world of professional trading, and among institutional traders and others successfully making their livings over the long term" then the answer's "yes": there's great interest and ...

They don't offer "funded accounts", but they do (according to this thread and their Youtube videos) offer "funding for serious traders". Go figure.

That's wrong, Paul: the phrase "funded account" doesn't appear on their website at all. Be careful what accusations you make, if you want anyone to take you seriously. It's better to have your facts right. On the other hand, they've started off a ...

I agree. The requirement to make 10% in about 20 days obviously encourages very big position sizes in proportion to the loss limits. This selects worse traders than would get through a "10% in 2 months" requirement. But it also keeps the trail fee ...

Some of the grasp of basic arithmetic on display in this forum is really something special! Strangely, when I went to school, for 1:2 it was 33.3%. That was a long time ago, though. Must be showing my age, I guess. Must be the "new math" they teach ...

Some really striking differences among people's experiences, then! (Mind you, that's not a surprise when half of them have come from a "forum posting service" and have never actually traded in their lives. I suppose they help out on the SEO front, ...

Yes, all fair comment - I accept that, of course. Thanks both for what you said and the way you said it.