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I have used some of his stuff on combining strategies. Not as rigorously as de did, but using the same ideas.

Please don't anyone take this as speaking for acrary because I'm certainly not qualified, but I All of the statistics work that acrary did seemd to assume a random distribution of trades. Not everyone has this. If that assumption holds, you are correct to assume that you will get...

Why not do both. Any reason to limit yourself to just one? The fixed size helps you determine if you have an edge or not. Fixed ratio will help you see how "stable" the system is. ie how aggressivly you can add size.

I don't agree. I think futures are easier.

Any kind of removing profits, whill hurt account growth. You can't have your cake and eat it too. It all comes down to how much are you willing to hurt growth to take the money out.

Closes can be great. Some days better than others. Just got to be ready to take the risk over night. But like trading the open, there is a learning curve.

REal;ly I just gave them a shot after havign trouble getting DSL. Certainly not fast enouhg to trade on. Might be fine for email/surfing :)

One of each. When a limit order gets hit, I usually go to the market with teh other side. it takes time but you will learn what works in each market. (I found tha tmarket hard, I got legged up a lot.)

Just find a company that does most of its business in Japan. You get yen exposure and exposure to the company.

If you htink thta the market is "rigged against your stratagy, (support resistence levels, etc) Why not try a different stratagy? They won't keep changing to "take out" you. Maybe the strat is bad. Is the resaurant industry riggerd against new resaurants? 90% of them fail too. I trade...

good luck a telemarketers dream

I'm still missing something. How does the synthetic postions com out any different. From what I understand, If you are short the Euro/pound "pair, you are short euro's and long pounds. If you are short the euro/$ pair, you are short euros and long dollars. If you are long the...

Is there any benifit in doing the euro/$ vs teh pound/$ than just doing the euro /pound spread? Don't they act the same. P.S. All currency trading is a spread.

The Nik dollar vs nik yen seem to trade pretty lokc step. Are there any reasons that they should diverge?

You seem to have multiple down days in a row. Have you checked to see if the daily results are correlated? ie If yesterday you made money are you more likely to make money today or not. Maybe only trade when you would have made money yesterday. See what that does to results/equity...

Thats a great site. I love that you see and decided where your money is going. It is amazing to see how much such little money can help. Some are lookign for loans that are less than what traders here pay in commisions in a day!!! I know I will loan more than I give my clearing firm...

It is hard to feel sorry for anyone who has been at an exchange for 30 years to be let go. If you are any good, you should retire/not "need" the job a LONG time before that. Just like you don't play AA baseball for 30 years, you either make it to the bigs, or you get out.

No idea on there training. But I am a big fan of that stlye of trading.

Would be a good place to start

No, you could have two "breakout" systems with slightly different conditions for long and short. Or you could have a "long term, long only, trending following system" with a "short term over bought reversion stratagy". Horrillibcus (sp?) talked about something like thsi in a thread...