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if it is that good with Sharpe >3 then you can scale on your own using higher leverage trading FX. Your edge won't last too long I guess when it is 100% systematic. You can be happy when you can trade it for 1 or 2 years live on your own. Hedge funds could shorten that lifetime span of your...

You should ask your broker. Done this myself. They have the best with minimal latency VPS servers for rent. It is done over MQL for payment and you can click and activate on Metatrader it self. Usually they can give you the best offer, meant trading with that broker you are using. For example it...

Yes, there are studies published, that shorting stocks which are just reverse splits doing is a very successful strategy.

You need to understand that a martingale is a kill yourself or suicide strategy. Make the math on your own. I already provided it here in this forum earlier on my posts. Scaling in on profits is the way to go and not averaging down doing martingale.

Despite I think as trader you need to be honest yourself, when you work as trader in a bank, you do not need want to have extra stress. Also when you are self-employed or independent trader, most people around him or surrounding him cannot get that PnL volatility or simply do not understand it...

All fine systematic edges, I found within my 15 years testing and develeoping, with Sharpe >3 did disappear within 1 year. Not long enough to get rich from starting small. They were 100% systematic. So I guess all kind of fully systematic edges have a short lifetime span. If you want to have...

You are right there are few exceptions, but they are rare like Topstep. On Apex you need to wait weeks to get your payout approved. And they are the biggest among futures props. On FX there is only FTMO and The5ers which are good. For me there is also some tax laws which makes it way more...

One big problem nowadays with challenge props I see, is the payout delays. Often it takes weeks until you can trade again. In contrast to any personal broker account you could trade anytime and scale up too. I calculated that the whole advantage to trade on any prop, based on more money you get...

Earn2Trade is scammy, I heard a nightmare story from a profitable funded trader who got breached his account because of a medium news not related at all to his traded instruments.

How about Darwinex, they have investors behind and marketing it. Any knowledge about this program as I am unaware of ? Can someone tell me, is Darwinex an independent FCA regulated broker or belonging to someone, who then ? So I can deposit how much I want and trade like on a normal broker and...

Do you think that the Ponzi like business model from challenge prop firms, where challenge fees collected from props are used to payout all profitable traders, is profitable longterm for the prop firm ? Or is there no way out of it of a failure, because so many prop firms recently failed, I...

TA as only edge is okay if it is highly discretionary. Also FA is okay when it is discretionary. When it is fully systematic you are mostly in trouble, as your edge is (too) small. That is what recent studies are highlighting. A few coding lines cannot replace a full human. Trading is an art...

What are the most discretionary elements when you trade or you can think of, which are the hardest if not impossible to backtest and make it fully systematic ?

Why do traders find it difficult to make money? Because it is a skill to be profitable as trader. You need a lot of screening time to be a good discretionary trader. And discretionary trading is where the big edge comes from and not from backtested systematic things. See this latest science...

Here is one proof why trading is an art and discretionary trading is the edge and not the systematic one. Good study below. https://quantpedia.com/combining-discretionary-and-algorithmic-trading/ Combining Discretionary and Algorithmic Trading discretionary tradingfactor allocationmarket...

Trading is an art. Regardless how hard you trade to go fully systematic, the edges come and go very frequently, not enough to make huge profits to get rich from, if you found one (edge), which is also very hard. The correlation and cointegration thingy is hyped too. I tried it hard, it is not...

Sold all my investments last week too. Quitted all swings longs in addition. You need to have cash in those days. :D

Goolsbee having less brain than a (watch)dog. If the FED has not heard the bells yet...the recession is already there, it is not about 'looking' anymore. That is past. Question is only, how deep the recession will be. The FED missed the rate cut on last meeting. If they were prudent, knowing...

We could see a 5% drop in SP500 markets today easily. It also could be a really Bloody Monday. Now I am expecting a bear market with some 25% drop accumulated in the coming weeks, I also sold my long investments above 5400 SP500 level on last week on Thursday. Thus being flat as a pan cake now.

Anyone knows is Trader Tom Hougaard coming back live trading for the public again on YouTube (?) or it is closed forever now ? His vacation should end soon I read before. There is penty of volatility in the markets right now, his trading should be excellent then, that is why I am curious to know...