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One sample? Increasing the win probability and loss size is literally what averaging down is guaranteed to do. There are lots of coulds in trading. Arguably a more reasonable thing to do is not have a BS tight stop that throws you out of your thesis.

"The masses" are entirely right in avoiding it. With sufficient experience you know if you're able to do it, but it's super easy to fool yourself to succumb to the good old 'trading win probability for large losses' game. Unless it's a well defined backtested mean reversion strategy, or perhaps...

Yahoo Finance is my goto when I need to look up random symbols that isn't in any of the tools I'm subscribed to. If I would trade a particular country systematically I would probably try to get a better data tool for it though, someone you're not paying isn't obliged to take their data quality...

For a discretionary trader averaging down is just poison.

Not really the markets you requested, but a Swedish screener for Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, UK, Germany, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, US, Canada. Figured it doesn't hurt the more links you have...

You see the videos from failed states where people are running about with AK47s on the streets and shooting into the air at random, that's kinda where this is heading.

"Now if you have an ability to pay $500 000 000 for some metal" Same principle as retail pikers trading forex positions of several million USD I guess, margins might be very thin. I agree it's a bit weird they didn't detect this faster, but it's not that improbable it's simple naiveness. I.e...

What a train wreck.

Be selective about your experts. It's better to read really few writers that genuinely understand what they are doing than going for arbitrary sources. No need to pass garbage through your head. A generous way of describing most mainstream financial media is as simple entertainment. The guys...

Yeah also it's overloaded at the moment (again).

General questions give general answers. A deceptively more simple general question that it still cannot answer specifically is what you should do to earn one million dollars as fast as possible. Sure, it will tell you could start a business or buy some real estate, but that's a similar kind of...

You must bugfix manually, ChatGPT tends to get some subtle detail wrong. A PhD colleague of mine drew the comparison that it's like one of her students and she must check everything the student submits.

Clearly I don't know about NHS (I need to take some time looking that up), but might as well chime in on Sweden's situation which may or may not be similar. Here it's basically the case privatization of healthcare has been ongoing for over a decade. What you do to detonate a public healthcare...

You're right, I will avoid using the term like this and it's technically incorrect. There tends to be a semantic difference to quants vs discretionary/idiot system traders (that I unfortunately remain), where mean reverting is a lazy way of saying propensity to a pull back (I assume you would...

TBH I would be mostly interested in hearing from somebody who system trades and actually have pullbacks codified into their rules. But it's certainly not as straightforward as it's made out to be. As for stops, I did qualify with position sizing. If you have e.g. 1% in a single name, then all...

My backtesting experience has been similar to yours... it's of course impossible to know what is a pullback and what is a trend change without further context. In such a case, you might as well go for maximum trend strength if that's your only signal. The 'theory' is something like this: Stocks...

Try harder OP

Exponential growth of account takes it to any figure you like if you keep at it year after year as long as strategy doesn't run into liquidity restrictions. Eventually, 20% of account will be a huge figure. Yeah, it sucks that it takes time if you didn't start out with large initial wealth, but...

Sure. And you can do system identification even on a blackbox if you know the inputs and outputs, so what you are proposing is technically not 100% safe as well. The best obfuscators today are pretty darn good though and offer a reasonable level of protection against the allure of casually...

The Euro has the normally severe downside in that it removes the ability of countries to run their own monetary policy tailored to their domestic economy. Of course, maybe that would be advantageous in Argentina's case...