Recent content by Roberto

Yes, very scalable. I'm now in my 22nd year of making a full-time living from it, and (like many others) have been gradually scaling it up over the decades. For many years, now, I'd have been paying the 45% rate of income tax on it, if it had ever been liable to income tax. The point in...

Same here - since 1999, in my case. Always my primary income, and in some years my sole income. Never taxed, obviously. I see that in the earlier long thread on this subject in which I took part (it was actually back in 2005, not "ten years ago" as I mistakenly claimed earlier in this...

It never ends. Let's just hope that anyone actually needing to know this will (unlike you, obviously) also read the 23 posts before yours, in which case they should have a reasonable chance of identifying for themselves at least two of the three different things you've just said, there, that...

This is a myth - it's just completely wrong. Not only wrong, in fact, but ironically enough the exact opposite of the reality. We used to have these arguments in this forum, 10+ years ago. The same thing was said then, too. It was wrong then and it's wrong now. The difference between the...

But not much of a mathematician or logician, apparently. :thumbsdow

For heaven's sake, Qwerty, there's nothing to disagree with - except basic arithmetic, which has been universally agreed on since the days of Euclid or before. From your own figures, your man made an average of 40 pips per trade (derived simply by dividing his 80,000 pips by his 2,000 trades)...

His expectancy is apparently +40 pips per trade, on balance. At your proposed stake that's +£40 per trade, so +£80,000 in total. If it's been honestly and accurately reported to you, if it isn't backfitted, if - going forward - the performance remains unchanged, if you can match his outcomes...

I take your point, Roger. But I suspect that whereas the number of people subscribing to SIS is now increasing exponentially, and the turnover on the exchanges with it as more and more people are making a living this way, the number of people actually able and willing to attend race-meetings or...

Oh dear ... the conversation's just taken a _very_ ugly turn. :cry:

Hi Roger, You are quite right. As Betfair warns punters under the "Rules" tab on nearly every page: "Users should be aware that transmissions described as live by some broadcasters may actually be delayed". Many people exploit this by betting in-play, simply using a domestic SIS subscription...

To what extent is the maple biscuit an integral part of the strategy? I do appreciate how irritating it can be when people see a beautifully crafted strategy and immediately want to start changing things before they've even started paper-trading it for a while, but at the same time one can't...

Long old thread, though, innit, John? Nearly 1,300 posts and I haven't yet put my head over the parapet ...

USD/CAD, AUD/USD, EUR/JPY, EUR/GBP, NZD/USD, this sort of thing. Would also need some independent corroboration of their regulatory body (i.e. how like the FSA they are): I'm aware that SB firms tend to be far better regulated and their customers far better protected than for most forms of...

I don't know about "safely" :) but that ought to be the theory, IMHO. Yes indeed; I'm using two specific TA patterns of price-bars (1-2-3-formations and Ross-hooks) to try to identify reversals and trend-continuation respectively. But I've used indicators before, and next time I fancy some...

I think that with only minimal "interpreting" the same can perhaps be said of the 3-hour chart.