Ah, but then you run into two distinct problems: (and I know you're talking about baskets of trades, but follow me here) 1) If we only focus on the edge/signal bet itself (which includes a stop level that identifies the trade needs to be cut to ...

Does the martingale system really work?

Side question: — BTW, random side question.. I've been playing with neutral networks, or 'neural networks' as some call them for a bit now. They are ever so complicated to program and a little beyond my current ability (who am I kidding, no ...

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So I forward tested it on demo for a week to make sure everything was running as intended. I wanted to run it for longer, but I didn't see any reason.. no glitches came up, nearly all trade outcomes were accounted for and the EAs managed them as ...

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Baby Names — So it was time to forward test, and at this stage I wanted to come up with a nick name for each method so I could stop referring to them by their test sequence numbers.. lol I picked two names that reflected the method's ...

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So I started running that first strategy I found from the earlier post (with the account balance chart rocketing to the moon) through all sorts of backtests. I think I changed nearly every setting once, making my computer run overnight testing it ...

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Technology Note: — Here's food for thought, a technology note if you will: MT4 is old as dirt.. pushing past 10 years now. It's strictly 32bit. It can't make use of more than 2Gb of RAM, single threaded, and it doesn't handle well on Windows ...

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Measuring System Performance — I suppose I'll get the dull subjects out of the way.. since I don't feel very motivated to write about them yet they are rather important in my process (and great tools to understand in general if you're any type ...

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Last I heard, Pepper was waiting on the platform provider to tie their application into Pepper's backend and it was taking longer than expected. Apparently they were frustrated with how slow the developers were taking.

Pepperstone Forex

Cool, well hang in there, most of this thread is going to be a place to write down my thoughts and comments/findings as I develop things... And as I've said in this thread, my trading methods are all manual, this is just a side project/experiment. ...

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Error Reporting and Good Coding — A little side track here, but about practical things: When testing code, self written EAs, etc... error catching and reporting can be really useful. One of the code blocks I found online that covered this ...

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That's the thing, "price action", "strategy" etc.. the market can ultimately do anything it wants. There's nothing stopping it from defying your analysis, no matter how confident you believe in your system. You can back test it, forward test it, ...

Does the martingale system really work?

I have to admit, I'm actually liking my Standard account quite a bit more than I expected. I opened a Standard to play with some EAs as a side project (actually started a journal thread about this), but I may open another for manual trading some ...

Pepperstone Forex

So you're just doubling up your bet size after each failed trade then? (also called Martingale) You might have a lower drawdown at times, but you're just as susceptible to a 'death sequence' of trades. A roulette table in Vegas once did 32 black ...

Does the martingale system really work?

Well, I wouldn't call them "good" traders. But yeah..

Does the martingale system really work?

Can't say I'm a huge fan of brokers who are regulated by CySEC in Cyprus. I don't have any direct experience with Exness myself, so I'm not putting them down, but in general I stick to IIROC, FSA, Swiss, or ASIC regulated shops.

Low spread broker for GBPUSD

Actually, to be fair, you should probably use a tool like the broker quotes box on the market page: url Though, it only includes brokers that sponsor ForexFactory. Another good spread tool would be: url Yet another popular tool would be fxintel, ...

Low spread broker for GBPUSD

What do you consider 'low'? My Oanda account is usually a 1.9 pip spread, but they max out at 50:1 My Pepperstone Razor account seems much better at ~0.5-0.8 pips plus $7 commission per standard RLT, which works out to about ~1.2-1.5pips total cost. ...

Low spread broker for GBPUSD

whoops, sorry, didn't read through the thread fully, it just popped up in my mind since I felt like I read this request before. Umm... if it's just a demo you want, AxiTrader has CFD's in MT4 for most major indexes.

MT4 demo with S&P?

Could have sworn I read a post by another member asking about the same thing for the same reason. *digs around* Here: url I think I spend too much time on these boards.

MT4 demo with S&P?

Teasing myself... — Up to this point, all this was just an exercise and experiment for me. I had no expectations that I'd come up with anything significant. I started plugging away, playing off some of the trendy EAs currently all the rage ...

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