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February 14th, 2013, 10:59 AM
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Merrick, the problem with a carrot / stick...
Merrick, the problem with a carrot / stick business model is that the one holding the stick always makes the rules least advantageous to you and always wins while you're always at risk of starving. ...
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October 25th, 2012, 06:59 PM
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I don't think it's a coincidence that you started...
I don't think it's a coincidence that you started having problems with NT just about the time you started trading the CL with size. You're probably getting segmented fills more often and NT is...
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September 3rd, 2012, 10:51 AM
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50% winning pct -> 1.8 to 2.0 max expectation of...
50% winning pct -> 1.8 to 2.0 max expectation of avg win/loss ratio
70% winning pct -> 1.0 to 1.2
80% winning pct -> 0.5 to 0.8
This is what one can expect as the Law of Large Numbers takes...
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July 23rd, 2012, 07:31 PM
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The price you pay (both emotional and...
The price you pay (both emotional and mathematical) for having big winners from adding to a winning trade while keeping initial capital risk small is that your longer term winning pct will drop to...
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June 24th, 2012, 12:33 PM
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I think psychology in trading is over-rated. ...
I think psychology in trading is over-rated. The starter of this thread completely lucked out on one trade and made 9K and also brought back two nasty intraday drawdowns past 1K and turned them...
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May 8th, 2012, 02:35 AM
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"price segment" is what most call a "price...
"price segment" is what most call a "price leg".
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May 6th, 2012, 10:57 PM
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No...both. The scale-in is done on a bar-by-bar...
No...both. The scale-in is done on a bar-by-bar basis, not on a price swing basis (as the forum host had shown recently in an unsuccessful trade sequence). Basically, you want successively...
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May 2nd, 2012, 04:33 PM
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The TF was a more wild contract when it was on...
The TF was a more wild contract when it was on the Globex as the ER2. It's grown much more tame (read choppy) since then.
I've been trading the CL for 1.5 years now (TF/ER2 7 years before...
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April 28th, 2012, 11:13 AM
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Do your reported tick totals exclude the broker's...
Do your reported tick totals exclude the broker's cumulative ticks made from your trading? If they don't then that number doesn't denote how YOU performed, independent of the number of trades you...
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