Recent content by soundfx

Guys, I've no idea how Veyron's system works, with multiple trades in both directions, however all I was pointing out is that sometimes I find having two trades running in opposite directions at the same time beneficial. This is the way I trade and it works for me. Everyone trades in...

supernova, "you go long and short at the same time and you exit the losing position WHICH PUTS YOU AT ZERO because one loss and one win ARE ZERO" The point I was making is related to risk management and only applies to losing trades. What I'm saying is that rather than use stops, you...

supernova, I think that you're being unnecessarily harsh on dumb_mother, and your novice assumptions are exactly the same as those which the trading illiterates in the NFA came to. Hedging is actually the best form of risk control. If you look at the longer term charts they move very...

Hi, I've been trying for some time to make sense of the "forward points" as shown at: http://equivalentsrdc.cme.com:443/ I've found the formula to use, however whatever interest rates I use, I can never get the same values as those quoted on the CME site. These FP's come from ICAP, who...

Hi MGJ, Many thanks for your response. I looked into this some more after posting my original message and I suspect that the reason no quantitive formula is given for trending % is because these statements appear to based on "eyeballing" charts. The percentages seem be coming from...

Hi All, From time to time I've read in articles statements such as "The currency pair GBP/USD only trends 35% of the time...." etc. The question is, how do the experts measure a historical trend ? I'm specifically looking at how to determine how many trading days out of a given year...