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Tag Archives: performance
Seasonals Trading System Performance Q1 2011
As promised, here’s a look at the performance of the trading system I’ve been running based on …
Some Numbers on Stock Market Earnings Reactions
I’m reading a book on trading based on company earnings announcements at the moment. I’ll post a …
Comparing Your Trading to the Alternatives
IÂ wrote the original version of this for the Currensee blog, but it has a broad based focus, …
Retail Forex Trader Profitability and the Death of US Forex Trading
I initially wrote this for the Currensee blog on October 18th. I’m cross posting it here because …
Trader Performance May Not Be as Bad as They Say
Here’s an interesting forex broker table posted at Forex Magnates. It lays out the % of profitable …
Taking Your Trading to the Next Level
A really interesting question came in overnight from a trader who is still relatively new to it …
Trading System Testing and Risk Management with Multiple Securities
A reader of my book sent me a question that combines system design and testing issues with …
Trading Services Performance Records and Refund Policies
Here’s a question that came up over the weekend. Why do so many Live Trading Services not have …
Is it unreasonable to expect that rate of return in my trading?
A reader by the name of Kevin brings up a question that I know a lot of …
Can I make X each day/week/month in the markets?
I received the following question yesterday: I am looking for a way to make small amounts of …
You want to know what kind of returns you can make?
I saw that question again – “How much can I make….?” There are numerous variations on it, …
What are your trading expectations?
One of the more common questions you can see on any trading forum relates to profitability and …
Taking a closer look at trading system win rate
Yesterday I wrote about the three elements needed to assess and compare trading systems (Thoughts on Trading System …
Thoughts on Trading System Performance
I was recently alerted to some commentary on trading system design and backtesting. That grabbed my attention …

