Simple statistical assessment among alternative back test strategies — I wrote the following for posting on the Yahoo MetaTrader forum and then remembered that there was a forum focused on risk management. There's always more to learn! ...

50% is not magic, it's just the mean and median of all trades. A "good" trader should be generally be able to achieve 50% or better--this means he has a well developed system of sense of entry and exit. Inexperienced traders are poor in entry. ...

Broker Spikes and Stop Loss Hunting — Regarding Forex “Spikes, Stop Loss Hunting,” etc., I have extracted an exchange from the following Web forum: url Messages 8 and 24 have the clearest understanding of Spikes. I've included the other ...

All your comments and observations are correct. Items #D&E below specifically address your quandary. Following are some comments from another thread with additions after item #D. REGARDING STOP LOSS SETTING: A. What was period of the chart you were ...

Right On! Paul Y. Shimada

Regarding your specific USD/CAD spots for 6/11, my charts show the same as you noted with no unusual patterns associated. REGARDING STOP LOSS SETTING: A. What was time period of the chart you were trading, M1, M15, M30, H1, H4? 30 pips may or may ...

FX Price Feed Manipulation — Yes indeed, Brokers DO manipulate the FX Price Feed Data for retail trade viewing. As noted in a prior post by Merlin, that is the part of the nature of FX business. Most retail FX brokers (most of them IBs, ...

To: VDeluca Subject: More on Risk Mgt. VDeluca's got it! If you set your stops and let them limit your losses, the risk limit is set by the maximum allowed losses, not by the entry amount. However, there are several aspects that confound this ...

MetaTrader & FREE LIVE DATA!! — It seems that many participants in this thread have some knowledge of MetaTrader. However, it seems that most have missed the obvious answer to FREE LIVE DATA feeds that work with MetaTrader. The producers ...

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VERY POOR Money (Risk) Management! — The basic problem with the system as described by VDeluca is the proposal's poor Money Management. The system assumes beginning with $10,000 equity and then each entry enters with one full lot, nominally, ...

TradeStation vs MetaTrader — I have programmed a lot of MetaTrader indicators (MetaQuotes Language) and studied a lot of TradeStation (Easy Language) & both User Manuals. TradeStation is overall superior because all variables are or can be ...