DislikedThis is getting ridiculous having to explain dollar profit target and equity profit target over and over again.Ignored
Open to new approaches.
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DislikedAdd_02a finally started trading yesterday at 1900 GMT. It presently has 104 .01 lot trades with a -$140 PL. I don't think that one is going to work.
If we used a half way reliable indicator to predict direction for opening the add trades, it would probably work pretty well.Ignored
DislikedI think a lot of us got caught with a trim and reverse BUY on GBPCHF last Friday between 0800 and about 1000 GMT, which absolutely went the wrong way and produced a big minus trade which has not reversed again. It happened on 2 of my demos and my live account. On the 2 demos I changed ET to 0 in hopes of getting them reversed again, but it hasn't happened yet. On another demo it happened to catch that pair in the right direction and the SELL trade is a big winner.
Just one of those unlucky events that take time to recover from.Ignored
DislikedSkoda2008,
I have been on the sidelines developing some tools to analyze the dynamics of the two baskets. Frankly, I do not understand where we got the idea that Group 2 was a hedge for Group 1. I believe that you noted the same thing in an earlier post. There seems to be a strong positive correlation between the two groups.
I also whole heartedly agree with your assessment that short term trend is of little value in determining basket direction. What is more important is the longer term trend such as daily/weekly - or the old standby - the...Ignored
DislikedHi Skoda
Your version Basket 14_03 Skoda_02 has a big potential.
Yesterday i gained 5 % but unfortunately after the Federal news (20:15 PM) the system lost 15 % !!!
We need a better protection against this kind of news for instance if losspercent > x --> close all and stoptrading.
Best regards.Ignored