Recent content by sjalmond

The free trial is a 'cancel within first thirty days and don't get billed' offer - think 'if you don't like it, send it back'. Has anyone actually tried it? I agree with all the above comments about tips, but that doesn't answer the question in post #1!

Hi Ben, Stumbled across this thread when searching for traders near me. Did you ever try your system in real life? I had a similar system once, but the slippage between EOD/theoretical prices and CapSpreads'/real prices was just too great... Yours, Steve

Risk and Reward I'm with FXSCALPER2 on this - people shouldn't reject a system on its R:R ratio alone. I'm much more interested in a system's Expected Outcome and Volatility. I don't care what the R:R ratio is, as long as the Expected Outcome is positive and I can afford the Expected Volatility.

'Better' stop-profits? How do you define 'better'? Do you mean stop-profit orders? I've recently seen a £400-profit position-trade close as £100-profit on a downward spike and I'm fairly happy with that. Stop-loss orders are a trade-off between given profits back and being stopped out by...

Housewife's guide? I think I've read every post in this thread, and in the thread that preceded it. Am I the only one who hasn't seen a 'Housewife's Guide'? Well done to ZDForex for posting his/her trades in public in real-ish time - credit where credit's due - but why the attention-grabbing...

It seems like the average spammer's interest only lasts two weeks.

Less noise, more signal So show us, already! Enough of the teasers: your post reads like one of those spam emails filling my Hotmail in-box! Steve

The other shoe has dropped I've been warned that, when everyone around me seems to be telling me that a stock HAS to keep going up, I should prepare for a fall. On the same tack, I guess I should have prepared myself for a fall in my account when I seemed to believe that my balance HAD to keep...

Drat: Journal's still not working! What am I like!? I write a long post about how I need to reflect more on my trades and what do I do? I write a long summary on statistics from my real-money accounts, and don't reflect on anything! I didn't even comment on the fact my 'FTSE Weekly' account...

Week 2.1: Boldly going... This also isn't Week 12: this is Week 1 of the new reporting regime. Daily Weekly FTSE Brent FTSE Brent Margin 45 130 80 325 Max Drawdown 260 2939 150 9798 To start 305 3069 230 10123 Risk tolerance 0.50 0.50 0.50 0.50 Delta 130 1469 75 4899 Risk (trigger)...

Not Week 12 This isn't Week 12. It may look like it. It may include a table headed 'Week 12', it may be a week after Week 11, and it may be an update to Week 11, but it isn't Week 12. Honest. Position at end of Wk 12 =================== Total Value: +£418/lot (+£43/lot change. +£35/lot/wk...

Neg-sum game in a zero-sum world The intention of the participants is to make money in the short term, or failing that, the long term. As far as I can tell, nobody cares who it comes from! We have a different understanding of what a zero-sum game is, or we're talking about different 'games'...

My Trading Journal doesn't work Well done, messirs T2W & Steenbarger, for Thursday's KLab article. You, gentle reader, have probably already read it; if you haven't, go do it now! My weekly journal on T2W is a recap and reflection on my week's trading, as recorded in my hard-copy journal. The...

Good for you! To my mind, a big part of this game is risk-minimisation. The lower the risk-percentage, the more can be risked on any move. I'd rather definitely get 1-pip at £100/pip than maybe 100-pips at £1/pip! A lot of the risk comes on the front end of the trade, so I'm keen to see what you...

Volatility & cost I chose the FTSE because it had the best ratio of average trading range to spread of the indices on Capital Spreads, and I chose indices to limit my universe of markets and to keep me as far as possible from those 'orrible fundamentals! I'm British, so the FTSE is quoted in...