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    Profit Factor

    do you have a bigger profit factor if you have s smaller drawdown also ?
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    Limit Drawdown on multipairs with this method ?

    when i said "stop adding positions", i meant stop opening new orders on other pairs. if you have potential returns {-1;1} on 4 pairs We know that the drawdown max of any pair was -1.0 over 20 years of 28 pairs backtest. now let's look at two possibilities: First we trade all the 4 pairs all the...
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    Limit Drawdown on multipairs with this method ?

    yeah i get that if you limit exposure (i.e trade less often) you'll lower the max DD. the more you trade, the higher the max DD will be. But at one moment you will continue to trade and trade more and more, so I don't think limiting trading is the solution. here is how I see my idea : you can...
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    Limit Drawdown on multipairs with this method ?

    I got a question, which i don't have an answer to, because it would require me to get a working strategy in the first place to test this out, but I think this is a good idea, so I count on your experience to help me So, if we have a robot that trades in multipairs, the drawdown is the enemy...
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    Chop vs. Trend

    ADX is a great range/trend indicator
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    Short everything

    gold is always the refuge asset. smart people have sold their indexes long time ago and will buy gold now or soon. gold value can't depreciate. At worst it will stay the same i think (not a financial advice)
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    Short everything

    "short everything" gold is long
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    TradingView review: "Screw 'em!"

    well i could very well be the future, like Stadia -no updates, -instantaneous 10 years tick backtests -access to your charts anywhere etc But as it is right now it's not good
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    Profit Factor

    i'm not sure but i think straightness of equity curve is more important, because if you have a straight curve, you also have less drawdown, higher profit factor, etc...it encompasses all good metrics
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    Backtester

    which broker and what assets are you trading is the first question
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    The best VPS for automated trading to IB ?

    I think there is no "ultimate" VPS you need to multiply the VPSes to trade 1 account I think because ANY VPS will crash at one moment or another.
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    How to get data for technical indicators?

    yes learn Excell progamming and compute the RSI from the close values
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    if you have a holy grail, what would you do when you are too old to trade?

    give all you rmoney to the poor, man, and get yourself a good place in heaven
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    if you have a holy grail, what would you do when you are too old to trade?

    no scalping my friend. those who scalp are working a real job
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    if you have a holy grail, what would you do when you are too old to trade?

    i'm french and learned english in school but i perfected my knowledge watching english Youtube videos. I HATE french YT
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    if you have a holy grail, what would you do when you are too old to trade?

    create an association to help people in need, then train ONE guy to monitor your EAs Set letters that will be automatically sent to different people of the association if the first guy dies or gets out, that will explain how to use the EA. then you'll know that you helped a lot of people after...
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    Reverse engineering someone else's edge by analyzing open/close trades history?

    you can try to reverse engineer the trades, i tried with an EA and i was able to pinpoint the main indicators, but NOT all the strategy. just put the usual indicators on the chart and change the period/settings so that it matches some kind of logic but later on i found out that this EA was a...
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    Top 6 Women in Finance

    Karen Foo is one of the rare trading teacher that makes money in real life; i don't know how valuable are her teachings though...
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    Anyone use TradeTrend software?

    what is the website?
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