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    Drawdowns

    i know.
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    Drawdowns

    i bet 40,000 eur/usd per trade, if it goes against me 5 pts i bet 80,000 more if that goes against me 10pts more i bet 160,000 more etc..... until i get my 5 pip reaction and get out even, try it, it works!
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    Excel formulas

    thanks everyone.
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    Excel formulas

    Does anyone know how to calulate bollinger band and RSI readings in excel spreadsheet??? thanks heaps.
  5. J

    IB IdealPro Commissions

    well said, i couldnt agree with you anymore.
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    how come i cant use a stop-limit on IB webtrader?

    ????????????????????????????
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    Olympic effect ?

    olympics does wonders for real estate of the particular city. aint it funny how soros has accumulated a lot of london real estate for the past year.
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    atRocky start when going live from simulation?

    every time i start trading a new system it goes into drawdown. i think because most of the time after paper trading/simulation you start to trade live after a good period of trades, and then comes the bad period with real money on the line(murphys law i guess). but if your method is profitable...
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    Random Rants and Market Ideas

    brandon, would you play your opinion on LU with options, like buying some way out calls, thus not tying up margin? thanks.
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    Systems that don't work anymore?

    a lot of systems have gone sour in this low-volatile, highly competitive environment, maybe there hasnt been enough volatility to make it worthwhile from 2004 onwards, just look at a 10yr graph of the ATR of any stock to see what i mean.
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    S&P Rebalance Friday???

    joetrader, what other quant strategies have stoped working that you have noticed?
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    Hunting & gathering mindsets

    good analogy, this is excatly how i treat my discretionary trading; im lying low in the grass like a tiger with bulging eyes watching the herds flow by, then when i see a weak prey within my grasp i POUNCE and grab that thing by the neck and dig my teeth in. i think trading is just modern...
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    IB new forex spreads

    will the USD/CAD ever be tightened to 3pips? it seems strange the AUD/USD can remain at 2 or 3 pips wide and the CAD is always like 6 - 8 pips wide?
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    Random Rants and Market Ideas

    i enjoy listening to your commentary brandon, keep it up. your style reminds me of stan weinstein. thanks.
  15. J

    Market Calls

    nice pullback on light volume, im still holding, i think there could be some decent upside to this one.
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    Market Calls

    im in at 7.78.
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    IB - How many liquidity providers do they have now?

    i see some of my trades are filled on the UBSFX desk and some on IDEALpro????? last week for the majority of the time the EUR/USD was 1pip wide, now this week its 2pips wide????? boy, if they reduced all of their major pairs to 1pip constantly through the euro session, i personally know...
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    Questions re: going live with a system?

    if you are not 100% confident and pleased with your system you will not stick to it day in day out, the system must match your personality 100%. this means win/rate, profit factor, trade frequency, trade length, drawdown all must be within your mental and capital tolerance. to keep busy you...
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    IB new forex spreads

    actually ib spread on eur/usd is normally 1 or 2 pips and cad/usd most of the time is around 10 pips. and 2 pips extra is quite a lot for me, most strats make around 2000pips per year on 250 trades so an extra 2pips is an extra 1000 pips per year or 50% more costs.
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    IB new forex spreads

    sorry if this has already been asked in another post/thread, but why is the spread on the USD/CAD so wide compared to other pairs and other brokers? thanks.
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