665 trades over 17 years... — ....and here it is. Amusing, eh? That's a lot of effort over 7 years (1997-2004) just to breakeven. You would think, looking at the equity curve up until 1996, you would be retiring with riches beyond your wildest ...

Jacko's Forex House of Pleasure and Pain

...taking years to break — Well...at the risk of getting hassled...IMHO if you haven't spent time with a testing program like TradeStation or something similar you can be fooled by randomness....to quote Mr Taleb of Black Swan fame. Here is ...

Jacko's Forex House of Pleasure and Pain

JACKO'S TRADES - 2008 -17 +12 +21 -60 -40 +84 -26 -35 -29 +315 +210 -49 -100 -100 -17 -37 -72 -66 +316 -41 -96 +71 +130 -50 -87 -46 -100 _____ +91 total Can anyone who is a member confirm or deny these trade stats? Cheers, Motu

Jacko's Forex House of Pleasure and Pain

Hi Gerard212....I think you might have fired off your keyboard a bit quickly here....Edge said he was being a "devil's advocate"...this is defined as: In common parlance, a devil's advocate is someone who takes a position, sometimes one he or she ...

Jacko's Forex House of Pleasure and Pain

What time you got? — Hi All I guess I'm lucky...it's currently 7.36pm down here in New Zealand, on Tuesday.... Anyone functioning on coffee and no sleep here? Cheers, Motu

The DIBS Method... No Free Lunch continues

Hi jarroo Are you using a fixed percentage risk of your account for each trade (say 1% or 2%), or are you trading a fixed number of lots per trade...say 1 big lot (US$100k), for example? Cheers, Motu

The DIBS Method... No Free Lunch continues

...here's one for the Ozzie — Hi Raz Come to think of it...check out this daily of our friend the A$....course, it's all easy with hindsight!!! Cheers, Motu

Trading Aussie Jacko Style

more on hidden divergence — Hi All And here's another good one: url Cheers, Motu

Trading Aussie Jacko Style

Hi Jarroo... I was just reviewing the action for the past week...the Yen looked excellent... Just a quick question...why did you decide not to take the IB around the 107.80 area? Cheers, Motu ps I can see why there are differences as my chart is ...

The DIBS Method... No Free Lunch continues

Hi Edge...I'm correcting you.. Have a close read of the stuartr quote...and raz's reply to my earlier post...I'm talking about trade size above and below the starting line. Hope you didn't get too blown about in that storm recently! Cheers, Motu

Jacko's Forex House of Pleasure and Pain

...Just getting the risk per trade clear in my mind...PART 2 — Hi Edge540 and FX_Genius I managed to find the quote from stewartr that was confusing me....I've underlined and made bold the part I was referring to... What do you think of this ...

Jacko's Forex House of Pleasure and Pain

G'day edge540...nice to bump into someone from the "Canada of the South Pacific"!! I understand what you're saying. On the other hand, I seem to remember another member mentioning a second approach....using the fixed % approach above your starting ...

Jacko's Forex House of Pleasure and Pain

...Just getting the risk per trade clear in my mind... — Hi everyone. I'm just trying to figure out what risk per trade Jacko's method uses when starting out. Are we saying: 1) Divide your risk capital into 20 shots of 5% and trade until you ...

Jacko's Forex House of Pleasure and Pain

turning off a system — Tdion hits the nail right on the head here. This is my first post to FF, but I've been reading this thread and the 95daily thread quite closely...lurking, so to speak. Tdion is correct in saying that a LLLWLLWLLLLLWLL ...

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