Recent content by spaceage

I'm creating a skype room for fx traders. If you're interested, please PM me your details. Cheers!

Sounds interesting. Check meetup.com - they have more than one monthly group there.

Hi everyone, I have been trading for around 3 years and am considering joining force with other local traders (be it in the form of trading from the same space / renting a shared office or sublease from other traders in London). Trading is fun, but I also want the interaction with other...

Hi, I'd considering undertaking the IFQ certification, and would like to buy the course materials for that. If there's someone here who has already done IFQ &/or has the course materials which they want to sell, I'd be quite interested to hear from them. You can PM me here with your details, &...

Hi there egonca, welcome to t2w! I see that you're from UK too - so whereabouts are you based?

Not everyone has to, or will, agree with your point of view, or mine for that matter. But as long as you get it, it's cool. :)

Well said :)

Seems to me that you've really reaped the rewards of backtesting. Had you not backtested that system, you wouldn't really know the system's statistical success rate. & that rarely ever is a good idea... Trading is a business, & it's all about having as much edge as possible.

Hi neocortex & MoeD, welcome to T2Win!

Most systems marketed make exaggerated claims. That's just how it is. Does that mean all systems are bad? Well, there is no way to actually know until it has been tested, & I choose to validate a claim before discounting it (unless of course there are obvious reasons not to do so, e.g. the...

Lol, well put.

no, it's a trading system called "Clone Trader Code"

Backtesting is not about testing discretionary methods, but rather for testing systems with clearly defined rules.

Not necessarily, but then again, I'm talking in terms of well defined systems, i.e. with defined entry and exit rules. If people see what they want to see, then clearly the rules are not defined enough. For that form of discretionary trading, you can't really backtest anything - because the...

Signal providers you mean :) Any others that you guys would recommend?