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Its a very good forum. I hope you will stop trading the real account until you have a rational simple strategy which you can then demo and improve and demo and improve until it goes like clockwork.

Your spirit is positive, but you are not learning, you are just reading.

But you are doing so badly when you could be doing so much better. You could have more money, which enables you to have a more pleasant life and have more fun. You could surely find something more fun than daytrading. Day-trading is not the only way, and may be not the best way, to fill your hours.

Take it easy traderGOD. "Dog" (and dogs generally) doesn't have the negative meaning it does in some societies and cultures, perhaps including yours. In my part of the world it can be a term of admiration, though slightly critical, for men who have lots of female partners. Either way, I don't...

Might this be the problem?

Interesting look at the speed of rise/fall of MA's. Thanks for this. Looking forward to a chart too.

Enough results, just post the system.

There is not a direct relationship between knowledge and trading profits. I feel that once successful in trading, out of personal curiosity and for the mental challenge, yes, it would be interesting to extend knowledge of the financial sector and economics. But it won't lead to increased...

Using MA's isn't a problem. Misusing them is the problem. That and depending on a MA crossover and nothing else as an entry signal with the converse MA crossover as the exit signal. But used for the correct purpose and in the right ways, they are perhaps the simplest and most useful set of...

I don't fully understand the survey techniques and have never heard of a good portion of the systems listed. MA cross-overs as entry signals are generally indicators that a price reversal has occurred. They are not very good at this task as they lag price action and are so frequently...

I don't believe in trying to get short when a chart has printed a strong uptrend. Its a game which a small number of skilled old hands can win at but which almost all new traders believe is the road to success. You might disagree but if there was a way to gather the data, I think we'd find that...

This is certainly so, and I think we agree that as you change one parameter in a trading strategy, it will affect others - sometimes in unforeseen ways. Yes, win rate might be increased as a side effect if you like of other tweaks, but should never be an objective. Win rate increase is probably...

You had 400 losers because your strategy built them in, it has a 60% win rate, the 40% of losers is not avoidable except over a very short, statistically and financially insignificant run of samples. There is a danger that you will start to think either the 40% of losers are down to your...

Start with a small risk, down to 1% of your account capital if you can manage it. Set a stop-loss using TA and adjust position size down to your risk level. Try to avoid setting a TP order but do monitor your position and close them when they start to look weak. There's no way to avoid getting...

I find the TA is total rubbish threads some of the best fun, and great value considering all of it is started by some of the most ignorant traders (if traders is what they are......).

MA crossovers work if you're looking to join on-going trends, you're really disciplined about cutting the frequent losers, and you are NOT trading reversals.

The casual investors are always late. The guys who invest based on what they read in the Sunday business column sometimes pick some good high profile stocks but generally they take far too long to get heavy on stocks/cash. Going back to the 60's, Coppock concluded that it took the average person...

What's all this? I demand to know who you are and what you've done with Xela!

I trade with my eyes shut.

In some ways its easier to follow long-term price trends. On that sort of scale, we can assume fundamentals are driving the price progression, its not just a technical correction, susceptible to reversal without warning. As an analogy, its easy to see the uptrend in ambient daytime temperature...