It will also be a falacy and unattainable...

Profit Factor Target

Not trying to be stubborn here, but I don't see how you can ever consider the spread a positive thing... that is unless your a broker hidden in disguise, like some sort of Forex Transformer... (yes i know lame its a lame joke)

Scalping Verdict

Before we go on and bury this spread issue, let me correct one thing. You always pay the spread. Long, short, win, lose, you pay the spread. Unless you enter when the spread is 0 and then exit when the spread is 0 you pay the spread. Death, Taxes ...

Scalping Verdict

There are several huge flaws in the above Hypothetical situation. So many that I will only touch the most glaring issues: First off your entire premise focuses on being correct 30+ times. Statistically this not gonna happen unless you want to use ...

Scalping Verdict

Have you tried using sandscript or hieroglyphics instead of english on your charts? This is a sure fire way to keep brokers from stealing your charts. Oh! also make them BRIGHT YELLOW so their eyes will burn everytime they look at it... eventually ...

will brokers steal your charts

Scalper are a brokers best friend. Contrary to popular belief, brokers love having a trader "take" 3-4 pips after paying a 1-2 pip spread. Although there are potentially some pseudo arbitrage opportunities in the market, the majority of the time ...

Scalping Verdict

Your probability is N/A . But seriously, we could go in to the whole equation for calculating your statistics and get your STDV, Variance, and derive max drawndown etc, however it seems you have tweaked your system through back testing, pretty ...

Backtesting Valid?

The breadth of the Forex market is actually rather overstated in most cases. Theoretically could this be done? Yes. However, you would run in to the case of the prisoners dilemma, where one side would end up screwing the for excessive profits. ...

Collaborative Trading to control market

The programming is much appreciated, I am testing and tweaking the system out now, I will post my findings later.

Help developing ATR banded EA

You still really are missing the point... I am not trying to display my trading skills or lack of or what ever you want to derive from this one post. This was something that happen many many years ago, but even if it happened today, it is besides ...

Another Reason Not to Trust Backtesting

I think your taking this post out of context. The whole premise was to show how easy it is to manipulate data when back testing and how even a small change in quality of the back testing data can significantly change actual results. Although back ...

Another Reason Not to Trust Backtesting

The spread on binaries are very high comparative to trading the cash market. Although there are definitely advantages to Options, in my trading experience, binary options are too thinly traded and the bid/ask it to high. Instead of trading binary ...

Why Binary Forex Options are better than Spot Forex

You should always initially target Pips as it is the easiest way to measure your targets. HOWEVER one of the biggest parts of trading is figuring out the lot sizing which you should always base on risk and %. Each trading situation will be ...

Aiming for pips or %

Yes, having leverage of 500:1 will reduce your margin requirement, but it will more than likely give you more than you can handle. Sure you can look at leverage as a tool, but you do not always need the biggest tool, sometimes it is too tempting. ...

broker with 1:500 leverage

Multiple Open trades at one time. I want at max 1 trade ever open. It would be nice to have each trade as 2% of the total portfolio, but that might be asking too much.

Help with Lot sizing