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Summary Week Ended Friday 27th September 2013 14 stock trades: 1 AAL + 35.51 BPS 5 BARC + 191.82 BPS 6 BLT + 91.23 BPS 2 RIO + 12.89 BPS Stocks net + 342.45 BPS P:L ratio was 100:1. Long trades, intraday and overnight. No Index trades. I traded 4 days this...

Hi, will watch for updates.

"But ideally we need a constant state of panic in the market that lasts for several months or years." Hmmm.... I've been observing the markets for years now, and I reckon such periods account for a relatively small fraction of time. If a trading strategy requires such conditions, then over...

OK, I get you. But I reckon shorts on the Dax were VERY fearful last Wednesday night .... Pity we don't have a proper VIX on the European markets.

Hmmm..... Looking at daily prices on the FTSE & Dax, September has been pretty volatile so far (Dax 8107 to 8770), so traders/systems who profit from volatility should have done pretty well I'd have thought. My stock trading has been OK, nothing to shout about but a positive P&L.

Do you anticipate an improvement in performance before the end of the year ?

Summary Week Ended Friday 20th September 2013 9 stock trades: 3 BARC + 309.9 BPS 5 BLT + 37.52 BPS 1 RDSA + 3.88 BPS Stocks net + 351.3 BPS No losing trades this week. Long and short trades, intraday and overnight. No Index trades. I traded 3 days this week...

Gold gone a bit mental here.

Now that's a nice move.....

Maybe a blast to 1720 zone to knock out the shorts before a fall back....?" Right now the ES is 1705.75, High was 1710.25....

Summary Week Ended Friday 13th September 2013 12 stock trades: 1 AAL + 7.69 BPS 10 BLT + 77.21 BPS 1 STAN + 12.53 BPS Stocks net + 97.43 BPS P:L ratio was 2:1 Long and short trades, all intraday. No Index trades. I traded just 2.5 days this week. Thoughts A...

Summary Week Ended Friday 6th September 2013 9 stock trades: 6 BLT + 51.87 BPS 1 MKS + 22.33 BPS 2 STAN + 25.86 BPS Stocks net + 100.05 BPS P:L ratio was 10.05:1 Long and short trades, all intraday. No Index trades. I traded 5 days this week. Thoughts A more...

Just looking at Dax volatility over the last few years.... could be that traders relying on high volatility have suffered recently.

A lot of wisdom in that post imvho.

Slumdog, here's the original post: "Im trading stock index futures mainly. Started 2013 with £40000 (about $63K usd) Currently have £30430 ($48K usd) Took some big hits around the February/March time period, 6K lost in two days, cut back size but continued to lose and the account...

I don't trade the SPX, but I do pay attention to it, as it is a pretty good measure of the overall US equity market. Daily chart still in the wedge....

"I see no difference between trading on a simulator and backtesting. You can develop a system on a simulator that fails when you go live and same with backtesting, you can develop a system that works well on back data but fails in live. I prefer to backtest. I believe i have an edge with...

Slumdog, sorry my mistake, I can never understand the daft US date format thing... SIFs ? I'm guessing stock index futures ? You trade the Dax/FTSE or ES ? As others here have suggested, stop trading and do some more work. The markets will always be there, take time to evaluate what...

Slumdog, what are you trading ? Are you in the UK ? EDIT - just noticed that this is an old thread....

Russia reporting missiles heading East, has spooked the ftrs... LONDON (MarketWatch) -- European stock markets turned lower and oil prices pared losses in midmorning action on Tuesday, after media reports said ballistic "objects" were launched from the Mediterranean Sea. The Russian defense...