More Winners or Larger Avg. Winner?

[Mr Subliminal]

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 )

 

[Girlpower]

Quote from Mr Subliminal:

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 )

Mr Subliminal

Sure. I'm going to take a different approach to this first though, because I'm suspicious of the results and can't find the errors.

So I'm going to build a spread sheet with several 'scenarios' in it and the corresponding results, and I'll post that instead. If you can give me a bit of time for that it would be much aprreciated.

Good luck unravalling Acrary's post.



Acrary

Wow - every time you post you certainly make me think long and hard...


Rgds
Natalie

 

[OPC]

Quote from darkhorse:

p.p.s. which brings up another thought: there's no reason why you can't have a low win percentage AND a low max drawdown at the same time, given the right combination of risk management skills and pyramiding skills... pretty dumb of me to overlook this point as it nicely reflects my own approach...

I know it's a bit off topic and dumb, but could you give me some ideas about correct pyramiding? I mean, is pyramiding all about scaling in while keeping risk a constant from the start?

Thanks.

OPC

 

[Girlpower]

These make interesting reading.

 

[Girlpower]

more of the same

 

[Girlpower]

Quote from Girlpower:

more of the same

 

[Mr Subliminal]

Quote from Girlpower:


I'm still checking the maths, and trying to work out the reason.

It appears you've worked it out.

 

[inandlong]

Quote from Girlpower:

I'm going to take a different approach to this first though, because I'm suspicious ...and can't find the errors.
Natalie

You? Naaaah!

 

[wally_]

Quote from OPC:



I know it's a bit off topic and dumb, but could you give me some ideas about correct pyramiding? I mean, is pyramiding all about scaling in while keeping risk a constant from the start?

Thanks.

OPC

Frankly, piramiding and risk management sound a bit self-contradictory to me, so I would also like to know how to do this safely. Not that I have a real need to do so right now, but just curious.

 

[Ron In-a-sauna]

depends on style, blah blah blah. scalpers can have higher wins but you cant make 5, 5, 5, lose 20, whereas if you momentum or swing, you better let your winners run enough b/c you are going to let them go against you a little more
personally i use all tehse methods and always work on improving w/l and p/l...