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- bidforvol replied Aug 29, 2014
Fartist, Do you take into consideration correlation between your various holdings? If so, what do you do: build correlation matrix? Limit the number of positions you take based on what you already hold, or pare down the risk in correlated products? ...
- bidforvol replied Aug 28, 2014
Interested to hear your thoughts on this. In my mind it is the most important thing.
- bidforvol replied Aug 26, 2014
I like Sugar on this downtrend. I was short of it but got stopped out late last week (just about around the time you posted this) for a puny profit. I guess if I had some balls this wouldn't be a bad entry point - short-term counter-trend. ...
- bidforvol replied Aug 26, 2014
The OANDA demo account doesn't expire, according to their website. Unfortunately, US residents/citizens cannot trade CFDs. A trending market may disappear for a while from whole sectors, so for trend-following I think it's very beneficial to have ...
- bidforvol replied Aug 25, 2014
Hi Dennis, I'm short Platinum since last week. Looks to be downtrend on Daily and H4 charts. Posting weekly chart as well, although I don't personally look at the weekly as much. Although the moving averages are in proper order on the weekly, I ...
- bidforvol replied Aug 23, 2014
I think you can go very far with just that. That is where I concentrate.
- bidforvol replied Aug 22, 2014
That is the holy grail. I would like to know as well. But in the meantime it could be better to just manage around that uncertainty, rather than spend a lot of time trying to find the patterns that can predict. Not to say there aren't any persistent ...
- bidforvol replied Aug 19, 2014
That's all very well. However there is a difference between a trading strategy that positions trades in the same direction with a trend... and a trend-following strategy. It's the rare trend-follower who can avoid most of the chop and accurately ...
- bidforvol replied Aug 19, 2014
IMHO, the win ratio for most successful trend-followers would be somewhere in the middle of that range: 40-50%. But I think the point fartist makes stands, the win ratio is not good.