Recent content by Carlos Un-shackled

I appreciate that! I'm hoping to refine this to expand the entire backtesting process to tell me not only an instrument's rules of entry/exit, but also to quantify it's volatility and predictability, compare instruments and then choose the one that gives me the healthiest mix (and hopefully...

Background - I'm a Programmer and want to do my own backtesting. I appreciate most of the members here will do this graphically but I'm hoping to use my skill! Did a keyword search but none of the results are definitive. Also - any good articles from people who've done this before? TIA

Hi Tim, sorry I'm late back to my own party!! Update - fella was up to 115 bigguns within 2-3 months, and I think he was locked in both ways when the market plunged in August - pretty much left him with his original 20k account I've told him several times it's a technique for the older kids on...

I think he's trading £10/pt - would that make it likelier he can afford to hold positions for extended periods?

Hi all, Friend of mine (no, not me, really!!) spread-bets the DJ without stops, basically he'll buy and sell it simultaneously, so as it goes in one direction he'll lose money with one trade, make on the other, as the market turns around he closes out the winning trade, opens another then...

Hi all, Is it more important to build discipline for a few hours on a daily basis or should this be done full time?

Hi all, I've just started tracking Wall St and will soon build a strategy, however, I'm confused about ETX spreadbetting charges - which I'll need to know to devise stops - ie what they charge, cost of holding overnight, cost of putting in stops (I know I need these, so how much do they...

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Hi all, first post in a while.... So, a sotware that can list all markets with X or more volatility/liquidity, or those at all time highs/lows etc? Basically this is for a friend who is currently trading major indices near their peak, then largely following them down, he wishes to do...

Hi all, Have been doing a lot of reading around, and now financially/lifestyle ready to start sifting through charts, looking for support/resistance lines and using them only to craft some strategies, decide what timeframes suit me etc. However - I'm a little concerned at all this 'rigging'...

Re: T2W First Steps Tips & Tools Many, many (belated!!) thanks for that comprehensive reply Tim ! I hope with my late reply you can see I'm in no mad rush to get on the markets. As for timeframes, I can foresee trying out both intra and interday in my paper phase to get an idea of which one I'm...

Re: T2W First Steps Tips & Tools What can I say fellas? Just very humbled by being lavished with all this information. I've been skim-reading for a good few months, and will go through all the links once over this week. Been wanting to get into Trading FAR longer than I care to mention, so I...

Hmmm. Firstly, I'm a nearly absolute newb myself who's read most of the articles. I too used to wonder what motivates people, who are actually competitors, to assist each other. I've seen this phenomenon both in the IT and the Bodybuilding worlds, and you can hardly get two more different...

I'm sure 100% of spread betters lose, just like 100% of all traders lose at some point. How many have made good money by the end of year one? I think it's better than 5%, but not by much. Pareto's Law I think is in force. And I wouldn't put it past the betting companies to all be members...