Recent content by I'vereadthemall

The real sickener is that you began this thread by being short £40 pp at about 16680. I feel for you. You could have been £13000 richer than you are now by doing absolutely nothing in the interim! Next time you take a punt perhaps try a trailing stop or something similar?

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Looks no good to me. Too straight. Would be more fun if it gyrated like a rattlesnake on a strip-pole.

I fancy going long now too.

Upto a point. Many people lost big bucks with worldspreads. Not least the investors.

It means nothing...so was worldspreads.

I can only speak from my experience, but the people I know who have used plus500 are drawn by the £20, they then try their hand by loading a few hundred quid after they realise that £20 barely covers the spread. In essence, you are absolutely correct that the marketing efforts of plus500 are...

I think the 50,000 'clients' are simply people who take their no deposit £20 bonus and never return again.

Hoping overnight.....

I also enjoy gambling as the much as the next person, but even when punting on the horses I wouldn't just pick a number out of the hat. I'd have a look at the form, speed figures, win-rate of the strategy over the previous season etc. If I had the money or inclination to happily approach the...

Howard Bandy can teach us a thing or two about good back-testing practice which also incorporates forward-testing too. Using Amibroker (although I am sure all other good backtesting software does the same) we can easily incorporate a walk-forward optimization as part of our back-tests. We can...

Hello, I hope that someone might be able to give me some ideas regarding the following; My brother has a dissertation to do and his idea is to test the efficacy of various candlestick patterns as a reversal signal. He is trying to figure out a way to statistically verify whether the...

Hey Jamie, I hate to tell you but profitable trading largely involves doing the same mundane task over and over again!

If I were you I'd read 'how to make money in stocks', 'trend following', 'following the trend' and 'the honest guide to stock trading'. They each cover risk management and trend following strategy in detail.

I looked into this a while ago for my masters. I couldn't find anything that didn't run into the thousands of pounds. Let me know if you if have any luck!