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A broken clock is right twice a day.

greenleaf, what is your thinking behind that signature you have on the bottom of your posts?

markets are stochastic period. i'm not sure if it is your thinking that is muddled or your use of english, or both. comments like "I have mentionned two things inside two implicit frameworks one that is stochastic, one that isn't." - muddled "It seems that that you don't understand the...

harry your comments seem muddled and ultimately unhelpful. this post is about risk management. what is your definition of risk management? comments like: "If you want tight stop you must use better knowledge to chose better your entry point for example which can only present itself on some...

beware: the fx market is extremely efficient at incorporating the latest news (rumors) into price action. in the majors the market is deep, liquid and directional. extracting a statistically significant (from zero) information ratio is difficult especially for day trading. in fact avoid...

errata: sorry sloppy mistake, on a 3 to 1, you can actually afford to lose 75% (3/4) of your trades rather than (66%) to breakeven.

granville your strategy sounds completely ad hoc. ad hoc strategies are psychologically difficult to trade. to start with what you must understand is that the outcomes you are realising, come from a probability distribution conditioned by your system (which doesn't actually sound like a...

risk management huh. where did you get this 3 to 1 ratio? from backtesting i'm presuming, or is it just some magical number you pulled out of the air? some hypothetical ideal? if you can achieve on average a 3 to 1, then you only need 1/3 of your trades to be winners to breakeven. you can...