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[EliteTrader.com Forums] Forums - Making my use of stops more methodical and effective: I am looking for help to work through my methodology when placing trades, and using stops. If indeed I have developed a bad psychological approach as a result of these losses, then I still can fix it easily by the correct actions each time.

[Free Financial Today] Guidelines To Choosing A Third Party Forex Signal Provider | Free ...: Look at the max draw down. This is the largest peak to trough draw down in equity that the trader has historically had.

[Aussie Stock Forums] Trade System Design - Reducing Drawdown - Aussie Stock Forums: I'm not that creative so I find the whole process quite difficult but I find that I can come up with some reasonable entries but the system drawdowns are always awful (~50% or more). If I then just apply a trailing stop (say 3*ATR(14)) to take me out of the trades I then find that my profit drops dramatically and the drawdown still isn't that low.

[Daily Markets] Developing A Stock Trading Strategy - Part 1 | Daily Markets: 3) This strategy had a maximum equity curve draw down 0f 72.78%, which is similar to buy and hold. This means at some point in time in implementing our simple strategy, we can expect to lose over two thirds of our capital.

[How to make money] Im Interested In Forex Trading And I Need Help . . .? | How to ...: Drawdown: The maximum drawdown of trading system is defined as the greatest peak-to-valley drawdown in a trading system’s equity. Maximum drawdown gives us a measure of the survivability of the trading system.

[The Hurst Trader] The Hurst Trader » Blog Archive » Using the Screensaver to build ...: This is a useful figure, because you should always assume that from the moment you start trading, you will hit that maximum drawdown period straight away. Most people would recommend that you double that figure, so in this example you should assume that it is quite possible that you will lose about 16% of your equity before you make any money.

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[Milk Trader] Milk Trader: Evaluating the Fitness of a Fitness Function: The different fitness functions include Net Profit, Net Profit/Drawdown, and Pessimistic Return on Margin (PROM). For Net Profit, the system returns the parameter set that had the highest Net Profit during the optimization period and then uses those settings for the trading window.

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[Day Trading Blog] Learn Forex Trade | Day Trading Blog: in order to position yourself correctly, traders MUST have a multi-part technique — one that teaches them how to identify the BEST available trades, obviously sets out a profit target, helps manage the taking of those profits and from the outset, teaches traders how to protect their precious capital!

[eToke's Blog] A peek into a professional trader's Equity Curve « eToke's Blog: Overall conclusion: My opinion is that following a (good) trader can be a worthwhile exercise, however it is very, very easy to lose tons of performance if entries are carelessly shadowed and one allows too much slippage to creep in. The hope is that, after some time shadowing a trader like Stewie one can start slowly putting in one’s own ideas and compare performances until one can do it on their own.

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