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Unless you're using a reasonable tick size in your chart, I'd suggest refraining from going live. A strat which shows good historical performance on 55T charts won't execute properly enough to make an money. RoughTrader

It doesn't matter why it failed after a successful runup. It could be any number of reasons. What matters is that if you had started trading this strat from the start, you would have scaled up your position size gradually during the runup and (hopefully) ratched down your size quickly through...

Welcome to boot camp my friend. You are paying tuition, I hope you're learning something. Every trader (at least those I'm aware of) goes through this phase. Don't be discouraged, but I encourage you to stop using money and use a simulator instead to analze exactly how you are interacting...

Maybe they can pawn the kid's toys to help keep their dream alive at least one more mortgage payment. RoughTrader

Wow, you figured all that out with just one up day? Amazing! RoughTrader

I for one don't really understand all the fuss about this issue of illegal immigration. I think it's pretty clear the demographic we're talking about. If Mexicans living in the US are not properly documented by the INS, it means they are illegal. I'm not sure what our congress is trying to...

I don't think it's wishful thinking. I witnessed first hand the fall of the real estate bubble in Japan over the past 20 years. I was only a kid, living in both California and Tokyo areas, but I remember seeing how the market just started sinking and sinking and just would not stop dropping year...

Very true. RoughTrader

I have many failing strategies that use setups that "look" profitable on the charts. But when you tabulate all the wins and losses, the strat is still a loser. Sometimes a devastating loser at that. I would be very careful when listening to this kind of reasoning. RoughTrader

I am familiar with these types of micro scalping systems, and some people have discussed their own implementation of them on ET. While the results may look good on paper, you will never achieve the results you are looking for due to slippage or limit orders being touched but not filled...

You can make this strategy work in real time through the use of intrabar order generation in TS 8.1. You cannot, unfortunately, back test intrabar orders beyond the resolution of the time interval you are choosing. In other words, if you are evaluating the strategy on minute bars, the minimum...

HAHAHA! I recommend getting a second PC if you want to download porn.... RoughTrader

This statement is simply untrue. I witnessed first hand the decline of the Japanese bubble of the '80s. Tens of thousands of suicides later, comparative Tokyo real estate is SIGNIFICANTLY cheaper at this point in time. The Japanese seem to have it in their mind (at least for now) that buying a...

Is the ECO the up and down arrows? If so, how is that indicator calculated? RoughTrader

I don't know about you guys, but August was a damn TOUGH month for trading the EURUSD for me. Whipsaw moves without any followthrough. I trade on hourly bars, and one of my FX accounts got churned. Hopefully the rest of 2006 wont' be as whippy and unpredictable. RoughTrader

Can you say "dead cat bounce"? RoughTrader

They trade because the alternative is to work for someone else. RoughTrader

Yes, August trading does suck. This is my first unprofitable month in the currencies this year. Feel like all this whipsaw action is churning my account :). Hopefully September will see more follow-through in the FX moves. RoughTrader

You made $100k profit your first year and your wife took you to the Olive Garden??? Dude, if you can't reward yourself decently, how do you expect to break to the big time? Think bigger man. RoughTrader P.S. Post back again when you've seen your first $50k or $100k drawdown. After...

Forget about this psychology stuff. Just upload your orders to the broker the night before, or just pay someone to trade your method for you. RoughTrader