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JJ, I said earlier that it's not something I need to do but if it can improve profitability then why wouldn't I? So maybe I might miss the best entry so I buy another lot of shares .05 below the original entry once, and exit all positions .10 away with s-stops. I always set my s-stops the moment...

what's the deepest you've had to average down in sim and in real life?

I don't believe in Martingale trading either. When you get to the point where you're trading 1024 contracts to recover the loss of 1 contract, that's just plain stupid. And if youre only trading 1 contract I doubt you can afford 1024 contracts (not to mention the sum of the rest of the trades at...

I can look at it as adding onto a position at a better price. Knowing that any one of my system has a 75-80% win rate, adding on an additional lot of shares at below (or above if I'm shorting) my entry does indeed increase profitability. But not enough so that it generates more profit than...

You're right. It is more a question of risk management than profitability. That is what I originally thought but didn't wanna make my OP even longer. And having thought about it further, since I enter using limit orders only I figure its better to post 10,000 shares at one level rather than...

I use some risk to reward strategies of 2:1 (or reward to risk of 1:2 as you meant to say). I use systems which have 75-80% win percentages using 2:1

I have a strategy which has a specific entry, stop, and exit (for a gain). Backtesting it, when I average for the same share amount at a specific percentage away from the entry during a loss, the system becomes more profitable. And profitability increases the lower the percantage is away from...

Usually for any bad trade you miss you probably miss a good one too. It all evens out. Especially if you're getting a few signals a day. I miss out on good signals sometimes cause I'm out for lunch or concentrating too much on another trade. But I also miss the bad ones too. With 50-250 signals...

If you want your financial company to be taken seriously, you should replace 'n' with 'and'. Sure, Bits 'n' Bites snacks may be doing moderately well but that's a different market. And because you made this thread, I'm now pretty sure this whole thing is just a joke. It was funny while it...

economics was the major my friends had to chose after they failed out of (or didnt succed in) tougher majors (engineering, chemistry, physics, math). and plenty of people minored in economics for the simple fact that it was easy.

I average down on C on a scalping perspective everyday, all day. But of course I'm only going short for the time being.

Well, not everyone has a mind quick enough to make lightning fast decisions on small time frames. It's true. Whatever suits you best.

^ thanks I just found http://www.tickdatamarket.com and that seems to have what I want but it costs money as opposed to opentick.com

ive tried those sites, and tried searching google but i can only find 1 minute tick data. heres what i want exactly: a line of data everytime either the bid/offer price or bid/offer size changes. ive been collecting my own data by setting a timer to record data 10 times a second and i filter...

can you suggest any sites where i can purchase such data for equities? thanks in advance

any company offer 1 second historical data? or something such as per time and sales print, bid/ask change