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Although I haven't participated but I am keen to hear experience of real user of TSL. I am sure other posters are as well. I urge you guys to keep it open on the forum. Might we all learn a few points. Cheers.

Amazing thing about OP is that people are trying to help him with constructive and detailed feedback and he replies with 1 liners complete with 0.75 DD :) LOL What a mix of arrogance and classic stupidity!!! High probability that OP is still in graduate school and has a 'know it all'...

so what are those attachments ? Someone else backtested it for you :)

Yesterday I wasn't paying attention and didn't realize the backtest you are showing. You must be careful with the backtest assumptions Average trade 2977, 100 cars means per car average is $ 29.77 average If you are trading 200 cars, it means $ 15 per car - so your average trade is...

That was an informative post. Thanks

Good question. I would be trading multiple strategies/setups and the highest leverage for FX is around 30. The lowest leverage is close to 5 (for multi day trades). Stop points against leverage numbers typically are like following: 5 Lev Stop(in pips) 100 (often add as trade goes against me)...

Thanks! Why not start trading it with 1 contract for few days and then increase to 10 and then to 50 and see for yourself? By the way, are you sure there is no data snooping going on here (using data from future to make current trading decision). I am asking this because this looks too good...

ocean, the backtest you show is it real? do you get similar numbers for other days ? What instrument is this on ? Where did you get the blackbox? or is it all in your hallucinations :) I have asked you a lot of questions, let me answer your question first. If after some basic due diligence...

I mentioned it in an earlier post, its going to be 25% per month, not 100% pm. Yes it is a steep goal, and even if I reach there in 4 yrs instead of 2, it will be fantastic!

Fair enough, thanks for filling in the details. Yeah it makes sense to scale up slowly and gradually. Good Luck

how long have you been trading and with what success? Asking because to achieve such numbers, an excellent methodology is required. What is your long run DD ? That should help you determine how much more risk you can enhance without much worry.

These are excellent numbers. If this is your personal account with profit maximization objective, no reason for you to not increase the leverage at least 5 times. Your returns will go up immediately still with a very comfortable DD, unless you have some other motive - like going to use this...

I am attempting a similar thing, posting weekly results in my journal. Trading ES and FX, so not ES alone, but nevertheless idea is similar.

Oh, I thought I wrote it pretty clear in my earlier journal. I also had a table somewhere showing for how many weeks my account lasted. That was learning phase. Not sure if you know but even great traders had blow ups when they were learning the craft. Do you know even PTJ had 3 blowups in 1970s...

Hi its 25% pm compounded for 2 yrs. If you are looking at daily compounding (not monthly compounding as in last sentence), its 1.1% a day, compounded for 2 yrs (252days*2 = 504 days). If a good trader makes 0.3% consistently with leverage 7, with leverage 28, he would make 1.2% a day. So...

Alright Leonarda, I will give you a more specific answer. If everything goes as planned and with some margin of error (since I would miss few trades because I might be sleeping or might be on road), the account starting from 2.5k should reach 500k within 2yrs. The following parameter: 1...

well I didn't write the time period - did I? I am in this for the long haul. No need to apologize. Also, its possible that I might add some more funds to this account - not much though. Just watch the power of compounding.

Yes you got it. That was my line of thinking. I am positive it will lead to good in sample results for a majority. Might even lead to few good results out of sample but needs more thinking. Cheers

make a target profit of 100$ and disaster stop loss of 500$, skew in win rate will reverse and number of profitable results should go up considerably. Cheers

Yes, trading does destroy lifes, careers and personal relations, if not done properly. Agreed. I have taken about 2 months break since previous journal to think it over so that trading doesn't destroy my life. My last journal was process oriented, was trading strategy oriented etc. My new...