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- Gmak replied May 2, 2007
Adding position — in normal circumstances I would add position at a 15pip breach of previous resistance. Where no such resistance exists, the folowing 'slingshot' method is used, though I am slightly uncomfortable with it. image Points i, ...
Stumpy returns. Taming the beast...
- Gmak replied May 2, 2007
A surge — I patiently await these with eager anticipation image At 1 I enter the market, the market runs faster than a granny winning lotto and crosses the lower 25 boundary at 2. Here I close all longs in anticipation of a retrace. The ...
Stumpy returns. Taming the beast...
- Gmak replied May 2, 2007
next up a normal condition — Here I simply enter at a breach of the upper red boundary (at 1) image The pending hedge cum trailing stop follows the bottom line of the 100SMA. This is what is happening at the moment, though as I have just ...
Stumpy returns. Taming the beast...
- Gmak replied May 2, 2007
certainly WH, cheers for being nice PeterFM. — I thought I'd start off with a failure. Here's what happens in a rangeing market image the initial long at 1, loses at point 2, where our short acts as a hedge. I then look to re-enter at 15 ...
Stumpy returns. Taming the beast...
- Gmak replied May 2, 2007
Lets get down to brass tacks — this method was inspired by Yezbick's much simpler (and probably much better) one currently to be found loitering in the 'trading systems' section. Thankyou Yezbick, may your life be full of joy. I have modified ...
Stumpy returns. Taming the beast...
- Gmak replied May 2, 2007
weapons — Battlefield 1 hr chart. whatnots 100 SMA set to Open, with boundaries set at + and -50 25 SMA set to open with boundaries set at + and -50 Thingymabobs S/R lines Uncle points
Stumpy returns. Taming the beast...
- Gmak replied May 2, 2007
the beast — Every gallant knight (even short fat ones) needs a formiddable enemy. The enemy My fire breathing dragon comes in the shape of the GBP/JPY. It lollops about the place whimsically changeing direction and clumsily treading on ...
Stumpy returns. Taming the beast...
- Stumpy returns. Taming the beast...Started May 2, 2007|Trading Journals|16 replies
....or getting eaten by it. first up, a story of woe. Last time I had the temerity to start a ...
- Gmak replied May 1, 2007
presumeably so — however when I went to work today all seemed normal. It'a the only chart running and its been running all day. I just recalculated all time frames so the problem is now fixed but I'm a bit concerned lest It should happen again ...
anomalies between charts
- anomalies between chartsStarted May 1, 2007|Platform Tech|3 replies
I have the latest version of metatrader installed, using Interbank as the broker. It is only a demo ...
- Gmak replied Apr 30, 2007
sorry. I thought phrases like 'its just fluff', 'it's just bull shit' and posts such as 'how a thesaurus can make you seem intelligent' pointed out a certain lack of nicety on your part. The first two phrases clearly rubbish his thread and journal, ...
Low Risk, High Reward Trading Experiment
- Gmak replied Apr 30, 2007
great, now I understand completely.
Low Risk, High Reward Trading Experiment
- Gmak replied Apr 30, 2007
I don't think it's particularly pertinent whether or not Itme's journal is ultimately a record of success or failure, nor whether people are impressed or not with his prose style. One can take inspiration from an ignominious failure just as easily ...
Low Risk, High Reward Trading Experiment
- Gmak replied Apr 29, 2007
I still fail to see why this particular thread has been removed... — Its fair enough banning people for a political opinion if you want a simple trading forum with no frills attached. Clearly Itme has violated the wizards law, successfully ...
Low Risk, High Reward Trading Experiment
- Gmak replied Apr 28, 2007
Easily the nastiest part of this system — Easily the nastiest part of this system is when one has all the longs/shorts in profit and the price hits the opposing boundary but then reverses. We have been conned into selling all our proftiable ...
Open-Close Trending with Hedging Discussion Thread
- Gmak replied Apr 28, 2007
thoughts — It think it might be best if we define a 'range' in some way, for example 3 losers in a row. If such a thing happens we might hold the method in stasis,perfectly hedged and adding long or short positions based upon the high/low ...
Open-Close Trending with Hedging Discussion Thread
- Gmak replied Apr 20, 2007
could we not filter some bad trades — could we not filter some bad trades in ranging markets by utilising a smaller MA Eg 10, or 12 to operate alongside the original 25 ma. We could make a rule such that if the 25 ma is flat, then instead of ...
Open-Close Trending with Hedging Discussion Thread
- Gmak replied Apr 19, 2007
The first period I would check out for the new 4 hr idea is still September through November. Is the worst period I've come across.
Open-Close Trending with Hedging Discussion Thread
- Gmak replied Apr 18, 2007
just done a backtest between the dates 11 Spetember (06) and 30 January (07) It is not a beauty.
Open-Close Trending with Hedging Discussion Thread
- Gmak replied Apr 18, 2007
scientist — I'm not sure I understand. if we reach the top of a trend we would surely close all hedges which are in profit as a natural course of following the system. Surely if we didn't there would have been no point in hedging in the first ...
Open-Close Trending with Hedging Discussion Thread