If by equity milipede you refer to a pyramiding strategy (i.e one that adds to a position as it is profitable) then I have a piece of advice for you that could save you a lot of analysis: Think of pyramiding as building up to an optimal position ...

Trading an Equity Millipede

In the way that it conforms to every disposition held by the average FF poster.

Why it is possible to predict price movement?

Overcomplicated trading methods are preponderent among amateur traders because they approach trading with the misconception that a good system/method is one that maximizes profit. This often leads to overfitting and indicator overkill. Robust ...

Why are we afraid of simplicity?

One should not ignore the thoughts and feelings that arise during trading. Often these are messages from your subconscious mind trying to warn you of something. Listen intently to what you might be thinking then decide for yourself if the message ...

Why thinking is bad for your trading

This thread is absolutely killing me.

Why it is possible to predict price movement?

All currency pairs are equally hard or equally easy to trade depending on the diffculty you experience in opening your platform and clicking the buy/sell button.

Toughest Currency Pairs To Trade

The answer is obvious, you would see many of them performing below expectations. Of course there is always the escape clause that allows for discretion thus avoiding any form of objective analysis.

what if every free system is attached to a trading explorer?

Edward Thorp would say yes.

Do trading Systems really work?!

Candlesticks reveal the Open, High, Low and Close of Price with stunning and uncanny precision. As for interpretation of candlestick patterns I recommend training your vision with the Cloud Method: Lie on your back under some nice clouds, with ...

About Candlesticks: Why they were created? What do they reveal?

People purchase trading courses/systems/education in an attempt to solve their feelings about uncertainty. This approach never leads to success because such people fundamentally misunderstand what trading is about.

Trading systems - Never pay for one!

But they don't buy profitable systems. People seem to only desire unprofitable ones. And thats probably why theres such a big market for lousy systems.

Trading systems - Never pay for one!

Selling a profitable system is indeed nonsensical because there is no demand for it. Nobody would give you a cent.

Trading systems - Never pay for one!

That is obvious and an easy conclusion to arrive at but few people realise that the higher fractal dimensions lead the lower ones. When you scale your system down a 'time frame' you are simply reducing the amount of data required for a trigger while ...

ATR Break Out

Neither category makes any sense. Being a 'specialist' and focusing on one instrument concentrates your risk. Trading the 'hot item' is a poor substitute for a criteria for selecting tradable markets.

Specialist or hot item? Which one do you choose and why?

None of the above.

Specialist or hot item? Which one do you choose and why?

Yup, it all makes sense now.

ATR Break Out

There are old traders and there are bold traders, but there are very few old and bold traders.

Trading Without a StopLoss

Yes, my point is that its essentially a different strategy when you do that. So, why use a different 'time frame' for different pairs? Hmm, why forward test? Its just like backtesting except that you're forcing yourself to wait for the data. Forgive ...

ATR Break Out

Whats the point of altering the strategy to fit different instruments? Why not fix your granularity?

ATR Break Out

Think clearly Abok, your backtest covers only a short period where the EUR/USD demonstrated excellent conditions for momentum strategies. For a more rigorous test, consider testing over a longer period of time and over a wider range of instruments.

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