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Dear RoI, very impressed with your work and your journal. Its high quality professional way of doing it, and especially impressive since you have no finance background and come from medical industry. The last post illustrates that even one day not following your system can be so deadly to the...

congrats on your success :)

look at commodities even gold and silver sold off yesterday. Sure sign of "forced liquidation" - same thing that happened in 2008. Will it continue. I dont know but I am going to my local shop and will sell all my physical silver today.

% risk should be a function of expectancy and PF. So even though at the outset 6% risk might sound relatively high, for a high sharpe system, it might be a very reasonable risk to run. optimal f fraction for my strategy is around 15% of risk, so i am less than half of optimal f.

between 3% and 6% on systematic trades. Discretionary trades between 1% and 4%. Also, I have decided to run a "pure discretionary" paper trader account starting with the same capital as my live account, so that I can compare performance at the end of each month to see how my discretionary...

hedgefundtrader, just a suggestion. sometimes your computer clock is few seconds different from your broker's/data provider clock. So, if 1 minute chart is getting formed in one place and 60s in different place, differences are to be expected. Hope it helps

yes Hurricane, they denied me. Too bad.

fishing, any word on compensation from ib yet?

After this experience (I currently have a 50% DD after 1 week of trading), I have decided to implement below rules for the next 6 months (to save my account from myself :eek:, I will review these rules after 6 months (on 1st Feb, 2012). 1. The account will run mostly systematic trading now...

I will update the journal every week or maybe even every 2 weeks, as anything below that will be daily noise and won't result into a trend. Time for mid-week update, since markets have been very volatile this week and as a result I am putting in one very important risk management tool. Story...

they should payback compensation. Being not able to trade due to no actual liquidity in a market or a terrorist attack somewhere is anothing thing. But being not able to trade because your broker's systems goes bonkers is definitely a broker's responsibility. I also requested a compensation...

SNB intervention ???

yes me too still waiting for their answer. IB has admitted that there was a communication problem between them and their LPs. They are still reviewing the whole thing. I also had a loss but around 1k. 8k is big!

SNB is not going to intervene till the time uncertainty lasts (debt deal in senate, rating cut, and Italy's, Spain's yields). The statements are not strong - they are not indicating their strong willingness to act. However, they might decide to come in the market to defend parity, imo. I will...

Where is it supposed to go ? Daal, do you have a target range in mind ? It seems to me that this move from 1.50 to 1.10 for EURCHF which started in 2009 and is still continuing has more to do with euro-zone worries rather than any swiss economic outperformance compared to eurozone (read...

+1111111 Very apt observation :)

Don't know very specific economics behind swiss, but logic says that when SNB thought it proper to defend 1.50 because it was affecting the competitiveness of the economy, defending 1.10 definitely should make a difference to the economy. The question is only a bullock will try intervening at...

bump....anyone experienced the same problem

I was thinking about going long either of the above pairs. Reading your post has convinced me that it is the time to go long Eurchf for a multi-day bounce. To reduce my risk (from us downgrade) , I closed my long usdjpy position (which was also a bottomfish). Long at 1.1101 We will see how it...

Now I am able to trade....Did anyone experience the same problem ?? cant get to ib tradedesk yet.