would you say what is "Relative Drawdown"?
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Disliked{quote} agreed, DD is very important factor. Relative Drawdown, right @paroucia.Ignored
Disliked{quote} To add to this I've been doing all kinds of tests and optimizations over the weekend and so far these are the best settings I've found with a good profit and acceptable DD. Yes there were more profitable settings (+$100k) but the DD was over 50% which is past my threshold. SL: 100 TP: 0 Progressive: True Risk %: 4 Risk Basis: Full leverage Tr Stop: 40 Tr Step: 2 With these settings tested over the last year, results from $1k start is $60k profit with 3.56 PF and 43% DD. Setting Risk % to 5 would raise the profits to over $144k, but the DD...Ignored
Disliked{quote} Big banks trade monthly charts, big trend comes from Monthly chart, small trend comes from daily chart. If you know the trend so you don't need stop loss. You brought this up so I may start a thread about monthly trend trading vs Daily trend trading. Just search Bank trades, Long/SHORT with them and close trades with them. Yes they float for months but when they get close so give you $10k to $30k in each trade. i thought you were going to suggest not to use stop loss in ultron. which I will oppose as H1 chart or Daily chart you have to close...Ignored
DislikedI installed the EA in MT4, I got failure code "0". No trade were opened in backtesting. Are some indicators necessary?Ignored
Disliked{quote} if you are talking about 3.2.0_VTB, and you have "0" on the test, then pay attention to which lot is set in the settings and what amount of balance you use for the test.Ignored
DislikedWhat do people think of the strategy of having two profit targets, where you close out a portion of the position at TP1 and the rest either at TP2 or leave TP2 as zero to try and make the most of a trend (with a trailing stop, of course)? Would it be worth coding this option into the EA?Ignored
Disliked{quote} My friend, you say that you do not need to use stop losses when you use monthly charts that determine the trends. No body knows when the trend will change.. My question is: What will you do in that case? Will you wait for a long period hoping that the price will come back? or will you use dollar cost averaging method ? or you will close it manually after 500 pips loss, for example?Ignored