Recent content by sunmoon

What do you mean "unless its going to backfire"? Keep in my mind my system is NOT trendfollowing. Also, commission is already accounted for in my returns. Thanks in advance.

5345 trades over 7+ years, which comes out to approx 780 trades/year

spike500 [and others] please explain WHY slippage must be accounted for, the actual reasoning behind it. Shouldn't it be a 50/50 chance of going either way? Thanks in advance.

5345 total trades Haven't calculated avg winning/losing trade, but don't see necessity for it, since my overall risk is minimal and sample size is large, which is a sign of a winning, consistent system Annual return: my (end of year account capital value- beginning of year account capital)/...

quote from blueberrycake (on another, but related thread "ES Scalping, is it worth?": Think about it this way, it's extremely rare to buy the bid/sell the ask in ES without the price ticking through to the next level. Hence in order to hit your target of .25, the price actually needs to...

quote from blueberrycake: Think about it this way, it's extremely rare to buy the bid/sell the ask in ES without the price ticking through to the next level. Hence in order to hit your target of .25, the price actually needs to move .5 in your direction. But to get stopped out at .75, the...