#1. Never pet a burning dog.

I'm sorry but I cannot understand your question but I'll give it a try anyway. First I don't pay attention to margin. It has no bearing on my trading except in a more advanced way where I may have a large account but only trade with 200k in the ...

I used to model various a/l scenarios and eventually realized that all I was doing was creating a trading system within a trading system. Instead of just looking to my trading system(s) for performance and having a money management approach that was ...

Ask BB in the VP discussion thread. I'm not up on who is the best for the systems that are being traded lately. I'm not sure if there has even been a consensus on this but there are distinct differences in the data between providers. Ft

Hey BB, Great job of seeing this through my friend. I'm eager to test your system out myself. Can't wait till I return in the fall when my schedule permits. Best regards, FT

I've never had a great explanation for this but my observations include the following: After summer break the markets heat up in September through to December since the big fund traders and other primarily northern hemisphere business interests have ...

For purely mechanical backtesting you can use intraday data and be able to write code that takes market development into account. I used to put a lot more faith in back testing than I presently do. Of course I used to put a lot more faith in ...

It does but over all we've been testing close to a year now both with real money and demo accounts. Since it is an intraday system the sample period is quite good in that any testing of systems similar to the one I developed have hardly had any ...

Dave thanks for your attempt to dialogue with dsarnat's post. I respect your approach and found no fault with it. However when someone posts off topic dialogue as dsarnat did I tend to step in and redirect it. Posts trashing VP and related ...

Oh the difficulties of modifying an existing system before trading it first without the modifications. This is one of the biggest mistakes traders make is premature modifications. Usually this sort of problem occurs due to undue risk aversion. The ...

The knife is a proprietary adaptation of the tunnel. It was designed to have less losses than the tunnel and overcomes the reversal problem with the tunnel rather nicely. However it takes a little finesse to get hold of it and that is why you need ...

I just wanted to drop by and thank BB and all who have done such a professional job of keeping this forum going! I've dropped in from time to time and noticed a lot has taken place. I'm glad to see some profits being made and people doing well with ...

Really close. I've got a headache today and the drugs are not quite knocking the edge from it. I've got guests from overseas arriving today as well so it looks to be another day or two. Thanks for waiting. Any volunteers to pick this up? I hate ...

Hey BB. Thanks for the little jab to get me going. I'm sorry for my slowness in getting this done. I was in another tropical destination (Vanuatu) on business recently and it took longer to catch up when I returned than I estimated. I've given my ...

No. No. Don't know. Try downloading a history file from the VP forward testing section and try it out. FT

Hey thanks man. I'll get that done next week. I'm a bit tied up over the weekend. FT

Welcome back. Sorry to hear about your tragedy but glad to hear he is alive and doing well. FT

Zen you are on the right track -- but not quite. In the forum I cover asymetrical leverage in great detail and you might be surprised to discover that a 500.00 account is too small for 1000.00 position sizes, which is what a micro-mini is, and that ...

Thanks Andrew, We appreciate your help greatly. thanks, FT

Hey guys let's not waste all this effort. It must be a bummer especially for BB to put all this work into something only to have a few people crap out at the end. This is one of the reasons people don't succeed at this business. Some parts of it are ...