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My concern is slippage and commissions...

If you work with 200K what is the best way to make 1mill in 2 years? Is it better to make a lot of small gains, 5%-10% each or catch several big trends?

Thanks rws3z Good advise Also as someone pointed on another post 10-15% of my trades account for my net profitability. So if I remove the 1 biggest winning trade I'm sure it'll be fine but if I remove top 10 or so it'll make huge difference. Any comments? By the way, this strategy I'm...

any other comments?

I developed a swing trading strategy that makes 500+ trades per year and has 55% win/loss with good risk reward. However based on my money management I can't take every trade. Do I need to take every trade to achieve similar win/loss and risk/reward results or based on law of statistics (...

Daily data: open, close, etc.

I've heard this several times and experienced myself: every system has a time spam and nothing works forever. This made me think, what's the point to back test a system on very old data? I think that 2-3 years for daily time frame and 6 months to a year for intraday will make it current. Am...

Thanks for the comments. I trade individual stocks and didn't change my selection criteria. I understand market is changing all the time, the question is how to change with the market before going to larch drawdowns?

I trade intraday system that I developed and it's making money. I've been trading it for about 6 months now. When I was developing and testing my system I had 6 months of data. Recently I got intraday data for 2003 and 2004 and I backtested the same system on new data. And it didn't work...

I've been trading for a while now and as I go along there are new problems/issues I need to learn how to handle. One of the things I'm finding hard to figure out is to how increase my size without diminishing my returns. I trade stocks mainly, listed and NASDAQ, usually buy and sell at one...

Well said... Let's read the name of the post again: "List of 5 traders worth studying". Zanger is definetly one of them, at least you can study his style.

Anybody here who has an account at IB, could you check if they have SNDA shares to short? I use Fidelity and they don't have any. Thanks