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nope!, that does make it look better... just keep working on not averaging down and you'll be well away Neke. Remember quite often traders that use averaging down in their strategies swear that it works for them, until they go one average too far...then they are broke traders! So keep it...

stocks, but you're right it's not about me if Neke keeps off the averaging down he should recover nicely.

I just looked at these. 4 years, started at 91K in Jan 2007, and he is now at 330K, sounds not too bad, that is an annual return of 38%, which is good in these times. However, 38% annually, with drawdowns of 40-50% is not ideal! If he stops "averaging down" he should improve though. My...

some of these P/L make me want to give up! my amazing +1% over 3 months isn't alot to write home about! (sob sob...!)

Hi, I think I read this once in one of the last 272 pages(!), but I was wondering peoples views on trading a pair where the divergence is caused by one of the stocks being a "range breakout". This is fine if the breakout fails and reverts nicely, but quite often the breakout will go a long way...

At the moment i'm only trading very small £1000 account, to use IB who charge £6 per trade+taxes, just to be equivalent to the spread betting spread "commission" of about 0.4% I would need to trade at £1500 per stock (ie.£3000 per pair trade), hence an account of at least £10000 really, and...

Hi, I am new to pairs trading and am currently trading using Spread betting in the UK, using IGIndex. I am however finding their spreads quite large, and was wondering what companies other people spread bet with for pairs trading? One issue I find is that alot of SB companies don't cater for...