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“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for lifetime” I believe genuine help can be offered without someone giving away their golden goose. Perhaps they can tell us what the golden goose looks like so we can catch our own if we ever come across...

<div align="justify"><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >Edge: This is one of the most basic concepts in trading, yet it seems like most starting out pay very little attention to this, so i will make an attempt to define it. When it comes to trading, an edge is defined as...

Here is another example. Now as discussed before, the previously shown results of strategies do not present what one would call tradable results. Here is another strategy that, based on the numbers, I would consider very tradable. The only downside is the number of trades in comparison to the...

Gentlemen, I highly appreciate all of your thoughtful replies. I’m wondering about this, many are talking about the win %, and not enough about the expectancy. As I found out with most strategies that take outright positions, the Win:Loss ratio is Inversely related to the Win %...

I'm using [(1 + (avg.Win:avg.Loss))*(%profitable)]-[1] --OR-- [Avg.Trade Net Profit ]/ [Avg.Losing Trade] which is the same thing. and yes these strategies are of positive expectancy, how is your expectency is followed by a % symbol? -shane

yes i was considering oanda, sub accounts eh? i'll have to look into it more. SR seem interesting also, i'm also going to look into that. thanks for the responses guys, shane

Thanks for the response, the problem with this setup is that i have for example 2 different strategies which trade the same pair, and at any given time they might be hedging each other. The systems are written to trade individually, and their performance reflects trades that are unaltered by...

Hi, I’ve been working on developing mechanical strategies for about a year and a half now and it appears that expectancy numbers that are greater than .50 or Sharpe ratios that are greater than 1 are almost impossible to come by after including slippage and commissions to the trades. What are...

Hi, I have 4 strategies that I’ve written using EL in Tradestation 8.1 for trading a couple of currency crosses. The problem is that I need to get the orders generated from Tradestation 8.1 routed to my FX broker automatically. Now I know that this can be done with TS and other Gain Capital...