Duration, Path and Outcome... I am now ready to move on to the next phase of this project: A) Starting October 1, I will bring an end to the Monte Carlo chapter and reset the starting Balance/Equity to $5,000.00... B) At the end of every month, I ...

I find it sad that, for some unknown reason and without any warning, this thread was moved from "Trading Systems" to "Trading Journals" without any notice or justification... "In trading, strategy refers to a systematic, rule-based approach that ...

Structure and Costs image Tuesday, September 17 at 10:23 Eastern... The equity has grown (effortlessly) by approximately 13.98% in a little over six full weeks... Please keep in mind that we are still dealing with a Monte Carlo and that results ...

Performance Review (August 1 – September 14, 2024) image Below is the updated performance summary: Starting Balance/Equity (August 1, 2024): $6,346.90 Current Balance (September 14, 2024): $7,154.20 Current Equity (September 14, 2024): $7,057.17 ...

The Double-Hedged Sword... image September 12 at 20:45 Eastern... Instruments: EUR/USD USD/CHF Next week, I will focus on the above to try to prove the following point: While a Unit can have up to 10 Soldiers, I only intend to actively deploy a ...

What I know that I don't know and what I don't know that I don't know... image This morning, September 11, at 9:40 Eastern... The concepts of Known Unknowns and Unknown Unknowns were famously articulated by Donald Rumsfeld in 2002 in the context of ...

Accounting 101 as it relates to MT4... image Tuesday, September 10 at 19:05 Eastern... Assets = Liabilities + Equity Net Income = Revenues - Expenses image Lately, as I was "checking out" a few traders who reacted to my posts, I was "saddened" to ...

Never confuse "Honesty" with "Hostility"... Warren Buffett could have said that too...

emmanuel7788, "what IF they put their individual skills together , would they have a better chance to make money." That was my whole point... I could not have said it any better than you did... The problem arises when the Fortune-Teller starts ...

I actually do use an accounting software to keep track of my "trading business"... image My goal is to achieve a fixed return on my invested capital each month... I want the earnings to be predictable and consistent... While it is true that a ...

An Accountant, an Engineer and a Fortune-Teller walk into a bar... image I truly believe that no sensible strategy is intrinsically "bad"... To me, position sizing is the single most important part before anything else... More often than not, a ...

Friday, September 6 at 10:18 Eastern... image To those who might still be interested in this experiment: The above is nothing but a Monte Carlo... Though the results are so far very promising, they could have easily gone the other way... For the ...

Only trader-wannabe's will disrespect you in one way or another then, shamelessly, will go on to ask you to provide them with a step-by-step user guide of your trading strategy, sometimes in the same breath and in the same post... You can never tell ...

"I'll swing back around if you ever give out some details about your "strategy". " Please don't. A high achiever like you should not need someone like me for anything... I was hoping you'll answer a few of my questions... Why are you running away so ...

Your work speaks for itself but you are not allowing us to hear what it is saying... I looked for over an hour... image Why did you make your "Profit Scale" private? Why don't you hide the graph altogether instead of the most important piece of ...

Jblanked, I honestly will drop everything I'm doing to follow your guidance and learn your strategy... Your achievement is just amazing and I'll bet my farm that every single trader on FF and elsewhere will be more than honored to religiously follow ...

"Nitpicking perhaps but..." What a horrible way to start a sentence!

If you prefer a Line-graph...

Equity without Balance curve... image

As it happens... image Wednesday, September 04, 2024 at 7:30 Eastern... Now that we have one full month of forward-testing with basically nothing but controlled random entries, the next step will be the smoothing out of the equity curve.