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A more important factor would be, is your system enough balanced so you do not need any stops like FX-Quant? Then it would not matter too much if you miss a day. Also, FX-Quant recommends to do the adjustments at the close of the US market when it is relatively quiet, I would have to find a...

Wow, I am stunned. Would your system, by making daily adjustments, also eliminate the need for any stops? Would you really want to go through all that work in order to provide daily adjustment figures? I might be tempted to follow it in a life account but am not sure yet. BTW, a small...

ParisJOM, are you still around to answer questions relating to this thread. I am impressed by your knowledge not only on this thread but also on another thread - I forgot the title - where you take apart those ridiculous systems which claim a hedging or even statistical arbitrage strategy by...

I meant to say to look at the seasonal, sorry.

I guess it is ok then to give the name of the service I feel very comfortable with: fx-quant.com. I had previously subscribed with them for a stock index swing trading system, presently inactive, with which I would have done very well if I had just followed exactly their recommendation and not...

Player, I hope nobody thinks I am an experienced forex trader, I only started about a month ago. Regarding the arbitrage system, I want to first hear from mF if it is ok to mention subscription based systems here. Regarding the interest system I won't give the name of it because it is also...

Player, I can not give you any advice as to when to start trading any particular pair. Since I am looking at this as a medium to long term system the entry point was not important to me, I just entered all open position and my timing was pure luck. You are probably right that I could take a...

mF, I entered the positions as you posted them day before yesterday, except I left the USD/JPY Long - I am going more for the long term trend - and set the stop at 300 pips, and today I am up 586 pips - it was just lucky timing. I am conservative in my leverage, I entered each position at the...

I also took the ZM Aug 07/Mar 08 spread on May 23 and I am still hanging in there on the assumption that it can not get much worse - hope I am right. Glad I took profit a couple of days ago on RB Aug 07/HO Aug 07 when it went above $3,000 - today, the supposed exit day, it is down to $214...

Hi mF, I just stumbled on your thread which I find very interesting. I have a question regarding suggested leverage - I understand that you do not give any trading advice. If one wants to keep the leverage to 3:1 (total exposure to account value) and assumes that your system on average has 6...

Cokes, I would suggest that you first subscribe to the weekly commentary which I think is an incredibly good deal. Had I followed it exactly, even only where electronic orders are possible, I would have made already over 50% on my capital, which I figured is $20,000, for the monthly commentary I...

One more thing, can you name a broker who pays generous interests on the credit received from your option credit spreads - you don't have to go through the hassle of buying T-bills. Why do I like to trade as many different systems as possible? As the Nobel laureate Harry markowitz has proved...

stu........., I have hard time addressing you by your assumed name, could you elaborate why you think the named brokers are better than IB. I follow MCRI guidelines and by using only electronic orders I am missing out on some trades with IB but otherwise I am pretty satisfied and, as hrokling...

That made me look at my RB Aug 07/HO Aug 07 spread where I am sitting on a $2,000 profit (avg. profit 1148) but since the chart looks good and since there were two years where it reached almost $4,000 I am staying in a little bit longer. That should compensate me for a relatively (hopefully)...

hrokling, great to see the outstanding results you achieved so far, this will motivate me as well to look into some books about seasonal spreads. I have to say though, if I had followed exactly the recommendations of MCRI's weekly newsletter I would have had similar results. This must be truly...

Hi hrokling, Interesting to hear that now you have decided not to blindly follow past patterns since I more or less came to the opposite conclusion - of course our methods are not the same. You chose to trade 63 spreads per calendar year which you selected by your own criteria from a book. I...

hrokling, congratulations to your unleaded gasoline spread. I took the rbob Oct 07/July 07 @-24.75 on June 5 but got out far too early at a profit of $987 since the average profit for that spread was $983. However, I took profit from the CAD Sept/AUD Sept spread at $1,428, that was a good move...

jimbohanna, one more questions: Can you recommend any books, advisory letters, etc regarding how to trade the financial spreads? How did you learn it? BTW, the best answer I got back from MRCI how the different markets for the Weekly Spread Commentary performed was the period from Aug 97 to...

Thanks jimbohanna, any pointers are appreciated. I have a hard time rationalizing seasonality for the Financials, however, the same thing could be said about the Currencies, however, not only did I make already some good money but when I further took a closer look at MCRI's 2006 performance...

I just confirmed with IB that they do not support sending spread orders to the floor. BTW, I changed my strategy somewhat. Originally I wanted to follow the Weekly Spread Commentary (WSC) from MCRI as closely as possible but looking in more detail at their hypothetical past performance I am...