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43 weeks left here's how that would compound: 3.00% 256.45% 3.25% 295.61% 3.50% 338.97% 3.75% 386.95% 4% 440.05% 4.25% 498.78% 4.50% 563.74% I'd take that...

sorry missed 4. What will you learn. Possibly nothing. Possibly how to make a living. It all depends on your openness to the market and ability to learn what it is teaching you. Sounds new agey and waffly but I mean it -most likely there will be no-one to teach you but yourself. I left in...

Having watched ET pretty much passively for a number of months I think I can actually help for once! I traded in a large prop shop with branches in NY, London and (I believe) chichgo called Goldenberg Hehmeyer and Co. I worked in London. It was also one which gave a salary. 1. The...

and the total as it looks nice! note that I would do the money management differently here taking size depended on max loss - here i had to use just 1 contract. thanks for your help so far!

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Ok great. I am using some free software ProRealRime for my strategy design. It is by far the best feee thing I have found out there but it only gives me daily data. I have tested my strategy in this and it seems in total good though it has some looonnng shallow drawdown periods. I...

i guess my question is less about the type of strategy as I think that would limit what I have the opportunity top learn with this question. More, let me ask what can I learn about the validity of a strategy given its performance in backtesting across different products (perhaps two...

Sure. I have a very basic strategy on ESbasically saying given a candle looking like 'x' go long/short and place stop and limit orders at yesterdays high and low. So really just a function of buyers and sellers as far as i thought - hence my surprise at the differing behavior in two products...

1st time posting after watching for a while so excuse me if I am going over old ground here. If I have a strategy which, on paper, seems profitable on 1 product (ES to be specific) or perhaps 1 class of products but seems to behave almost exactly the opposite on another class (ETFs such as...