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Uh huh, thanks for these informative responses. In summary "don't ask questions" as it indicates laziness and "ignore what you read here" as it's all cr*p anyway. Try reading trade2win sometimes, it's another trading site where people share ideas, thoughts and experiences without the attitude.

Does this mean that all advice on this website is no value, seeing as it's free?

Not really looking to pay for a tutor as such. I have 15 years experience trading at an institutional level and for my own account, however it's always been deliverable products, i.e. FX. I was looking to see if anyone on this forum had experience backtesting on futures, and what kind of...

I'm looking to expand my trading strategy from just FX to include commodities as well. I have no prior experience of backtesting on futures, and had a couple of questions. Which data provider is good for continuous futures, either back adjusted or otherwise. I need to go back at least 10...

Is this the most pointless thread ever? It must be up there.

How are people "logging hours"? Do you have a card which you punch in every time you switch your PC on? Is this like those people who go to the gym for "one hour" and jog at 5 mph whilst watching the little TV.. all sounds a bit inane if you ask me. I reckon it takes 2 years of...

Economics or using fundamental analysis depends on the input variables being roughly correct. As we know, figures can be massaged (e.g. false earnings at Enron, incorrect deficit numbers for Greece, etc.) which in my mind renders economics little more than guesswork. Put 10 economists in a...

Breakout trading usually aims to capture the larger moves (although not always). Many breakouts are 'false', so you'll need to send a high number of soldiers into battle before one reaches the hill. Try this method using dailies - if price exceeds highest high for last 10 days, buy, or if...

You need to make contact with someone (or two) who has worked there for a meaningful length of time and can give you some colour on the place. I've never heard of this group, possibly because I'm based in the UK, but you need to do some more research before sending them your $$. I think 9...

On the issue of moving stops to breakeven, I've tested a large number of different strategies and have NEVER found any benefit to moving stop to breakeven at any stage, in fact, the opposite (you're far more likely to get kicked off a winning trade than save yourself money the other way). I...

Slight addition there - the stop is n ATR above the d day low if you are short.

I've not read every page of this thread, so apologies if this has already been mentioned, but one possible technique is the so-called "chandelier" stop. It's a fairly simple idea. If you're long, your trailing s/l is n x ATR below the highest high for the last d days, and n x ATR above the...

Non-farms always seems to take the USD higher. Irrespective of what's going on with jobs data, Bernanke will have one eye on Japan's experiences and will leave rates close to zero for longer than people imagine. Bill Gross reckons we'll be at this level until 2011..