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I just posted an answer in the averaging down thread. A lot depends on your strategy, it cannot be regarded in isolation like many want you to believe. Most methods, scaling in, scaling out, averaging in etc will lower your PF. The only thing where I see it having benefit if you go for...

Scaling in, scaling out, averaging in, etc is all described in Kaufmann's book. However the crux of the matter is that it has to be very tightly integrated with your system. Most of the methods will lower your P/F substantially, except with the "barrel position sizing" which will have slight...

OK guys, I have gotten a pretty good idea of where everyone stands and I am asking the moderator to close the thread. Thanks to all those who have voted and I'll leave making any conclusions to yourself. (Otherwise I may start another flame war :eek: ) Holmes

and then they say that Islam is a peaceful religion :eek: "they just want to be left alone" yeah right, don't think so! If there is one thing history teaches us is that people don't learn from history and keep on making the same mistakes. Holmes

Or is it that the "iWant it now!" babyboomers do not have the patience, determination and painstaking attention to detail required to build a proper system? And then the "iWant it now!" are starting to trade with real money. In a hurry to start banking the profits, yeah right (not!). Holmes

Depends on your broker I suppose, I do this all the time with IB. Holmes

Looks like you have not yet graduated in mastering the markets. Some more tuition fees are required, thanks for the "donations". Have been dong OK in the currencies for the last 3 years, before that was in the e-mini S&P. Nothing has changed, markets are behaving the same as always...

More and more the US is starting to look like pre WW II Germany. Holmes

You may speak for yourself but you are most definitely not speaking for me. I have a 20 year + IT career behind me and I do know how to tune a PC, thank you. (Once I finish tuning the setup is at least twice, if not three times as fast as the standard XP installation). Hope you do not...

http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=582351#post582351 Ah well, another alias added to the ignore button. Holmes

Nahhh, (s)he has not shown )s)he has a good memory - refuses to even acknowldge that (s)he has posted certain things in the past, even when it is linked. And thinking logically is something that I highly doubt. Perhaps an inmate somewhere with nothing better to do? Don't know but it is a...

another Zzzzz... sympathiser, using the ignore button again.

And another one who won't make the grade - hope you are more objective (and do a bit more research) when you are trying to trade buddy. Ignore.

No, am just getting fed up with the low life and that he does not seem to adapt his (her) behaviour. Trying to send him (her) a message what others think. And those who voted Einstein have problems with themselves too..... (except they may not realise it) Holmes

And another one to be added to the list, this really makes life more pleasant - all those who cannot think logically are coming out of the woods now. Wonderfull!

Thanks you for confirming that you think alike to ZZz...... Am I glad for the ignore button, the most usefull feature on this site.

Reputedly when Einstein was asked if the Universe was infinite or not his reply was: "I do not know about the Universe but I do know human stupidity is, it never ceases to amaze me". And to the previous poster: I was just interested to see if there was someone who thinks that Zzz.... has all...

Come on need some more voters, don't be shy. Only a few votes is not much of statistical value (although the lack of voters says already that people get turned off by just seeing the Zzzz..... handle :) )

there are also situations that hyperthreading will considerably speed up things. This is what I referred to earlier: Without testing you do not know what will make things better. But the public always gets what it wants: Something very generic which is produced at the cheapest possible...

the barlength you trade is directly propertional to how your experience has taught you to be most profitable. (in other words: the longer you trade, the more money you get to trade, the more you'll discover that you'll have to trade the longer term) holmes