INT is to risky for me as it ignores all NT safety features apart from "no trade" day decisions.
I back tested it to when I started on the 17/5/10 and the first two trading days I ever had where trade days but the traps did not trigger due to the NT safety stops. INT would have ignored these and just jumped straight into a trade. Those first two days would have been -60 pips. Infact my back testing showed that up to and including 1/6/10 INT would have been sitting on -88 pips.
To be fair from 2/6/10 INT has had a good run @ +225 pips giving a combined result to date of +137 pips.
But it's just the way it ignores the NT safety stops and jumps in without pause for thought that NT has that worries me, even more of a coin flip than NT.
I don't have the data for all past trading days that didn't trigger but I suspect if anyone did you would find that every single one would have been a -30 pips loss with INT. But maybe it's a winner, am watching it too now to monitor results.
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Well it's impressive to see how you've all put your thinking caps on and come up with your personal tweaks of the syste! I've read somewhere (possibly even from RH's forex roundup) that the most successful traders are those who take a system and further adapt it, so way to go!
On a related front, since it was at times asked where to get historical data for backtesting purposes -- from http://disktrading.is99.com/disktrading you can download historical forex pairs data ($20 for a given pair) back to 1998 -- in lots of time frames and formats. I've used it in the past and found it excellent, it also gives you free quarterly updates for a year.
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