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Yup. It's like this with me: Step 1: Come up with new idea. Step 2: Quickly realize idea could potentially be the holy grail (get excited!) Step 3: backtest/run the numbers/whatever (wait in anticipation) Step 4: realize you were wrong (dammit!)

MACD is not profitable over time, so you're essentially wasting your time by taking signals from it. Everyone will have a different answer. There isn't a "normal" or "regular" way to trade. Everyone does it different and everyone has their own rules. For example, some people go with the...

Final step? Just trade a live demo account for a while before going live :)

Looks awesome in that pic. How does it do in real time? You know if it has high accuracy you could average down into those trades when price doesn't reverse quite right away and double your money. IB people flame me for suggesting average down.

The crossover? How do you explain all the times the crossover occurred yet you didn't take the trade? Also, the best case scenario for entering on a crossover is entering at the first tick of the first bar AFTER the crossover, because due to the way a candle forms, the crossover is not...

Until you get to a choppy period. It's easy to show a MA and a trendy section of chart and say they are profitable. Indicator vendors do it all the time to try and make their shitty systems look profitable. Just saying.

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You are going to get into arguments of what defines the trend. Most people try to follow the trend, but most people lose money. Something to consider.

OEC has that. There's a "close all positions across all contracts" button. But you have to click another button to "cancel all pending orders across all contracts." You can "close all positions and cancel all pending orders" with a single button, but it's only per contract. edit - OEC is...

The only people who say "don't sim trade" are people who sell shitty indicators and shitty systems because they don't want you to test them and realize they don't work before you pay for them. Sim trading is great except it doesn't simulate emotions or slippage. But it's better than nothing...

Did you know that ahead of time, though? :eek: :cool:

hooray we broke out of that stupid range!!!

Before you sign up I should warn you that my charting service requires that you have MSPaint on your computer :p

Martingalers "think the trade expectation has got better" because they're usually trading some form of RTM and after the price has gone in one direction for x ticks it is more likely to go back the other way, according to them.

i was under the impression that those weren't actual prints and just software glitches. Yahoo Finance shows stuff like that a lot for SPY. Sometimes it ruins the perspective of the charts. Like there will be one print that is 5 dollars higher than where price actually traded. I don't think...

Is this normal around the holidays? Are the people trading option strangles making a KILLING these last few weeks or what? What's the week between Christmas and New Years like?

If you add to a winning position with increasing position sizes (as in a true anti-martingale), then your breakeven post gets consistently higher and it's easy for a huge winner to turn into a loser. That being said, you'll have to establish a criteria for WHEN to exit with a profit, just...

I see I've been mentioned in this thread. Let me clarify. I tested a variation of the system mentioned in the Daytrading 2.0 thread and, for the few months that I backtested (and then a few more months of forward testing) it was a bit profitable. However, I made modifications to the...

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