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Why does this happen?

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 HoopyTrading 
Boston, MA
 
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Well, I figured there's no way an entire market is going to turn precisely on my trade, but yet, if you were to watch me trade, that's exactly what you would see and think....lol. So, my next logical conclusion is that the platform is programmed to do this (which would account for the 90% of traders lose thing we always hear about). I know, I know...conspiracy theories and all that

It's not just you! It happens to us all! The platform is not programmed to do anything but feed you data (live), and try to handle your trade whether it is live or sim. Trust me...What you see in sim is going to be fairly close, if not identical, to what you see in live money. So if something you do in sim works, it will work live. If it fails in sim, it will fail in live. So long as you are using LIVE DATA. That is the important bit. Not delayed or offset or replay or anything like that. Forward-testing for the win.

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 Itchymoku 
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What is your average stop in ticks?

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Michael217
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I've experimented with as little as 1 point (usually too tight) to as much as 4 points. (trading /ES)

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 Itchymoku 
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I've experimented with as little as 1 point (usually too tight) to as much as 4 points. (trading /ES)

Do you feel the market does the same thing when you use a 4 point stop as opposed to a one point?

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