Recent content by vish4al

Managed to get back to the UK in one piece. Always an accomplishment when snowboarding! Back to the journal - I completely agree with you, market are not going anywhere. Last year I did reasonably well and was playing with small amounts of money but not following it daily as I should have been...

Snowboarding in france this week. Prob made more sense to start this thread after but my initial analysis will take around 1-2 weeks starting next week, then will be on the lookout for trades.

Cheers guys - forgot to add I am trading FX, equity indices and Gold. My biggest issue with these markets is correlation so in an attempt to mitigate will also be looking at exotic FX pairs, even though the spreads on these are a bit crazy. As for which trend, I will be trading the daily...

I have decided to get serious with trading and hence decided to document everything. I don't claim to understand the markets or be some guru, just someone who has come up with a strategy that works for me and has been right more than 50% of the time over the past year. I firmly believe in...

I'll PM you.

Not really what I wanted to hear. So what advice would you have for me now that you know what I'm trying to achieve?

It would be really useful to hear what your background is when you post such conclusive statements. If I have something that works and can prove it does work then why would it be unlikely to get backed by a prop desk somewhere. My other idea is to try and get into a trading grad scheme. All...

I have been looking at the spread and you are right on some of the more exotic commodities like for example timber the spreads are pretty big. Like I have said, I want to implement this through spread betting as it gives me access to a lot of markets I otherwise wouldn't be able to trade due to...

I respectfully disagree, I have read numerous articles of people who have done just that. Not prop desks (admittedly) but they got into investment banks. I don't like the idea of trading short term. I want to trade long term. Cheers for all the pointers, I will def read your recommendations.

I am extremely serious about what I want to achieve and I know it's not easy. Saying that there is no way I can afford £100k. I need to start small. That's another reason I'm going to implement my strategy through spread betting as you can take on small positions. I will definitely take a look...

Cheers for that - looks pretty good.

That's a lot of experience under your belt, no doubt you're a smart guy and I do agree with you that there is software out there that can do things 100 times better than excel but I am very familiar with excel and only need an EOD futures feed for what I'm trying to achieve. As I said before, I...

I will have a look but am familiar with VBA up to an advanced level and since I want to keep things simple it should be more than sufficient for my means for now. Although thanks.

Hey, good to see I'm not alone. I really do strongly believe the key to a system is simplicity. I have a huge exam in June, so can't spend too much time on this at the moment but after June I am going to spend some serious time researching this. As I'll have nothing else to do. I really like...

Hope I've found the right forum here. I'm new to trading. Been researching into Trend Following quite a bit as it seems a lot of the big players (AHL, Louis Bacon etc) seem to use it. The thing I can't get over is the simplicity. I've read a few books on the topic. If we take for example the...