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It appears you've worked it out.

Natalie, could you post a file of your calculations? Meanwhile, I'm off to spend half the night on acrary's thread reference. (There goes American Idol :()

The order should not matter in acrary's model.

I am enjoying this brain exercise as well. Your equity.gif is convincing and has me scratching my head, trying to reconcile our different results. But here is where I really need your help - consider a trader who has no edge : % win = 50% win size = 1 % loss = 50% loss size = -1...

I do not wish to comment on the relative merits of the particular strategies or their drawdowns. I do, however, respectfully disagree with your statement that the higher win% strategy will have a higher return. Using the above assumptions viz. "the same expectancy, the same number of trades, and...

Where do I begin? In Lineup you can either select your own profiles or use one of the pre-packaged lineups, like LOWLIMIT.LUP or LOOSE.LUP. Under Game Setup you've also got a bunch of parameters to set depending on the type of game you are trying to emulate. My suggestion is to devote 2 or 3...

wdbaker, you won't be disappointed. I was involved in the beta-testing for versions 3.0 and 4.0, but am unfamiliar with 5.0's new features.

Actually it's a hand-me-down from 40yotrader.

1 monitor is sufficient for my purposes - scalping ES using X_TRADER based on price action only. My setup : http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/attachment.php?s=&postid=79095

So introduce some spice into your trading day - see my post in the Drinking & Trading thread.

My trading day starts off with a gin and tonic at 8:00am (ET). If important economic numbers are due out at either 8:30 or 10:00, I also invite over X hookers, where X is the number of reports that are due. Naturally all this is formalized in my Trading Plan - in fact I stop trading for the day...

No decent firm would have anything to do with me - it was just a cut-and-paste job from the internet. I presume there is some sort of battery supply in the post-XT/AT machine. That's because the guy who wrote it is German. Try these at your own risk : http://spybot.eon.net.au/...

marcD, I would immediately uninstall Precision Time. From the Web (link intentionally omitted - it may also be spyware) : "You are browsing the web. Suddenly something pops up in the middle of your screen. Annoyed you hurriedly check for a Cancel button. There is no Cancel button, and the...

inandlong, I agree with you. In fact, I now see where you got 50% or more from - for if profitseer meant "that this guy is hitting his profit target before his stoploss 50% of the time", then he definitely has an edge.

Like you, I also wasn't making any statement regarding the nature of the market(s). However, when profitseer says "this ones for the guy who thinks he can guess right 50% of the time if it's going to be an up day or down day", then for all intents and purposes the market is random for this...

inandlong, are you inferring that it is possible to make money in a random market by adjusting stops/targets?

You'd think they'd learn by now. What makes this so wasteful is that he blew a March, 2002 alias and not some 3-hour-old job. In the intelligence community, this would be the equivalent of having one of your well-placed informers exposed.

You only responded - I friggin' voted.

This got me out of the poorhouse (and into a cardboard box): http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=137203#post137203

Go slowly, seito. Not everyone should be under suspicion - Flow and dtiger are none other than themselves.