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The market, say trading the Dow index, poses a problem: to make a profit but preferably to build a quick fortune if you can do it. This stands alone .. and is only a 'problem solving' question. What the human brain does above all else (and allegedly the male brain is best at this) is solve...

See above .. by trading the Dow I actually mean day trading; nothing longer.

Thank you Girlpower for your comments earlier. Answering you query Hypostomus .. trading the Dow based on direction and range. Thank you for your 'in-a-nutshell' advice on backtesting .. any additional comments on backtesting?

Does anyone else on this thread have a view on backtesting generally or on backtesting system trading .. what is a sufficient period? Currently I use the last 7 and half months. I have concentrated on trading of the Dow. Is there a best sampling period do you think? Can it be too short or too...

Girlpower, may I add a question? Backtesting system trading .. when you do it, what is a sufficient period? Currently I use the last 7 months. Is there a best sampling period? Can it be too short or too long? So what is better do you think .. 5 yr, 2 yr, 1yr, 6 months, 3 months?

Girlpower, may I ask a few questions? As you know I do what I do but I am trying to add to my skills and knowledge. You say system trading is "mediocre with fixed targets" but that the "vexing question (you are) grappling with right now is how to identify/quantify the failure points." Just...

Have to say it foxed me .. :confused: Grob 109 and ArchAngel, thanks for the help.

Couldn't seem to get the live graph at Quote.com today? Has the symbol for the mini-Dow been changed from CBOT:YM03U? What to? Any views/help welcomed.

Its been a bull market since October last year. Was there an economic recession before this? Technically and statistically, sure, mild at worst, but unnoticeable in ordinary life with spending apace, a continuous housing boom and, well, just plenty of the 'feel good' factor'. So bears and...

Facultus failed to write 3. Was this fear of some sort? "As things deteriorate, the energy that you tie up increases and, thus, there is less energy available for anything else but maintaining the drama you have created and it's corresponding pictures." Grob 109 I like this. So true of the...

No, Girlpower, I didn't take anything you have said as trying to influence me. Have constructed my own strategy but this thread has given helpful stuff on the question of larger sizes .. and about liquidity. Good trading .. and all the best; many thanks.

Thank you, Girlpower. Yes, my observations of the sizes on the Dow mini do echo your excellent advice - seems to be that the bigger sizes are routinely split with half the size a point more (if buy) or a point less (if sell). For me I enjoy trading the Dow simply because I've done an awful lot...

"0) watch the B/A and how many go off at each for a while. 1) move mouse over to execution window. 2) bid/offer/trade, 1, then 5, then 100 contracts. 3) take note of what happens and go to step 0 or 1." Nitro Humbly added a bit homework on the mini Dow to "watch the B/A and how many go...

Granville x, a helpful comparison of the index contracts. What has been your experience of speed and liquidity when trading larger sizes?

Girlpower and Nitro, I really appreciate the advice you have given. Now that I use a strategy (admittedly complex) that works .. I am proceeding along the lines of doubling my staking whenever I reach each next doubling of my trading capital .. always rigidly keeping the same pro rata risk...

Trade4Success and Pabst, thank you for your replies. Is larger size best dealt with by taking what you can get at the price (ie Dow) particularly if it is buy around the bottom of a downswing (or a sell around the top of an upswing)? Assuming online trading, is there a best way to manage or...

May I ask a question on Size? If you increase size in line with an increasing fund (original funding plus net profits or by adding more funding) does the market limit increases in staking? So pro rata risk stays the same .. does the market become less and less liquid because you go on...

Girlpower, thank you for your help. I read on a UK BB from someone who had acted as an assistant to a trader who apparently could do hits of 100 $5 Dows at a time; it seemed that there was sufficient liquidity. But my interest is in staking .. I have a 'statistical/time axis modelling...

Am also a newbie on this particular BB (Elitetrader). Would be very interested in any assessments/comments on the liquidity and speed of execution for trading the $5 Dow, say between 1, 5 and 100 lots of this contract in one hit?

NihabaAshi, thank you for those links. Already subscribe to MyQuote as well. Have I got this right - does YM mean mini-dow? Is there a thread here for discussion of the Dow index?