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Volatility Trader Rel.3c - LIVE-A in Trading Systems Mar 30, 2010 at 01:49

Volatility Trader Rel.3c - LIVE-B in Trading Systems Mar 26, 2010 at 23:40

LOL.That's too funny. No, no neckless goons on the doorstep yet! 🙄You know, that's the way the cookie crumbles some weeks. Overall the software is 2,341.5 pips net POSITIVE since first trade March 2/10 on the new back-end trading server so at our 1:1 recommended sizing that is about 23.4% ROI in 3.8 trading weeks.Have a good one... t.ps - About half of the pain this week was self-inflicted... The order sizing was doubled and we happened to catch the bad ones. From now on order sizing adjustments will be restricted to 25% at a time. Oh well, live and learn as they say.

Volatility Trader Rel.3c - LIVE-A in Trading Systems Mar 26, 2010 at 22:57

******************End of Week Summary******************Overall this was a difficult week for our system to find its bearings on cable.The pips earned performance was somewhat buoyed-up by the performance of the Asian pairs which did not close a single AUDUSD or USDJPY trade in loss all week. That being said, the $ performance of the system was severely hampered by the fact that we did an order size increase (by 100% -- too much at once!), the timing of which happened to catch more of the losing pips than the winning ones. Also going against us $ wise was the fact that the Asian pairs are sti...

Volatility Trader Rel.3c - LIVE-A in Trading Systems Mar 26, 2010 at 22:50

I have what I believe is a winning automation and would like your opinion in Experienced Traders Mar 24, 2010 at 19:18

I was just on the InvestorsHaven website and I cannot tell if it is still active... But I do see a number of his scalping set-ups running as MyFXBook set-ups. Does anyone know if he is still running this as a successful business?Just curious, that's all...t.

What is considered best practice in protecting an EA from pirates? in Experienced Traders Mar 24, 2010 at 18:32

I think that to protect an EA from pirates it simply should not be sold.Other options:1. Trade your own money.2. Trade a pooled account on behalf of an investor group.3. Trade larger accounts for single investors on their behalf.4. Sell signals.We do all four of these with Volatility Trader Release 3c.With respect to #4, we have built our own signal master server on our own network so we don't have to rely on anyone else's signal service being available. If the signal service fees are high enough it is worthwhile to sell subscriptions -- our model is that we offer the first month free...

What is considered a great EA? :) in Experienced Traders Mar 24, 2010 at 18:10

Good questions Paul, thanks for asking...1. Percent / month? I don't think that % / month is really relevant as it's too easy to skew. One can take 500 pips / month and make it turn 40% by over-trading with 1:500 leverage. It's also possible to take 2000 pips / month and make it turn 10% by under-trading too cautiously. In my view what should be measured is pips / month or pips / day on average. This is how I gauge the performance of our Volatility Trader. (See "Volatility Trader Rel.3c - LIVE-A" discussion...)2. Forward testing? Depends on the system. A static EA...

My appreciation for myfxbook in Experienced Traders Mar 24, 2010 at 05:23

Ditto. I'm also very impressed and pleased overall with MyFXBook.Would really like to see some improvements with respect to weeding-out all of the dross. There are a few good systems and techniques in here and a whole lot of fluff. It would be really nice to see some more advanced system filtering options on the search. Things like:1. Equity/Balance disparity.2. Simply searching and sorting by Equity growth as a percentage over time would be nice (instead of just absolute balance.)3. Weeding out systems with large and/or old floating losses would be nice.4. Filtering out systems that h...

Hmmm... What's up with these systems? in Experienced Traders Mar 24, 2010 at 01:08

(Was about to post this on one of the System threads but decided that singling out one was not really fair, when there are SO MANY bad ones to choose from.)Just some comments, regarding a SYSTEM WHICH SHALL REMAIN NAMELESS, but seems to represent much of the automation being showcased around here...*******************************************************************************I'll be honest -- I don't understand the fascination with this kind of automation.It looks like the demo has been running since the end of January and it is something like -1200 pips net in about two months. I co...

Volatility Trader Rel.3c - LIVE-A in Trading Systems Mar 24, 2010 at 00:10

Volatility Trader Rel.3c - LIVE-A in Trading Systems Mar 21, 2010 at 21:40

We've been doing a pooled / managed account for over 6 months and are currently net-positive.The signal service might be premature if we had not been trading this particular EA live since the beginning of 2010. Even while working out bugs the EA has put $5,800 in the bank on a $30,000 account. This while using overly low risk/return settings.Now that we are ramping up to 1 mini-lot / $10,000 account balance and expect to see something like 20% - 40% per month.

Volatility Trader Rel.3c - LIVE-A in Trading Systems Mar 21, 2010 at 20:32

Ajentha, to answer your question: In a nutshell, VTr3c is a custom written EA which serves as a pattern recognition engine which uses "per signal" historical modeling to establish multiple means of dynamic stop management throughout the lifespan of any given open position. Signals and their corresponding management techniques have been established which use extensive hedging in order to establish multiple market positions with low risk.We have a dedicated trade generating platform that trades our primary account (the one that is reported here) and a secondary machine on our server r...

Bogie-HedgeHog-v4g in Trading Systems Mar 21, 2010 at 01:43

If you like hedging check out http://www.myfxbook.com/members/tbuitendyk/volatility-trader-rel3c-live/21903Positions are generally heavily hedged and it's put 3100 pips in the bank in 13 days.t.

Volatility Trader Rel.3c - LIVE-A in Trading Systems Mar 19, 2010 at 17:30

Volatility Trader Rel.3c - LIVE-A in Trading Systems Mar 18, 2010 at 04:38

JadeFX in Brokers Mar 16, 2010 at 06:46

Been trading with JadeFX since the beginning of 2010 and the experience has been positive. Very good spreads. Good execution. Fast account set-up. Plus I agree with the philosophy of these guys to not give-in to fed regulation. A very clean and easy trading environment that is a relief after trading with FXCM.

FXCM in Brokers Mar 16, 2010 at 06:33

...trying to remember the exact wording of that non-disclosure agreement, but the details escape me...That being said... I think that I'm within my rights to say that I hate it when people lie to me -- "all 12 of our liquidity providers were offline for 5 minutes after the NFP, blah, blah, blah..." "You have a really good point sir!, I'll take it up with my manager, blah, blah, blah..."

Volatility Trader Rel.3c - LIVE-A in Trading Systems Mar 15, 2010 at 15:01

***************************************************************************** If you are interested in using our signal service, contact us at [email protected]*****************************************************************************

Volatility Trader Rel.3c - LIVE-A in Trading Systems Mar 15, 2010 at 06:12

We are running on a live $34,000 account with limited time wide-open access to view the trades the system makes. The set-up is currently running with a 10 micro-lot order sizing parameter on the 12 GBPUSD signals and a 5 micro-lot order sizing parameter on the 4 "Asian" signals (AUDUSD & USDJPY). We anticipate doubling the return rate by scaling-up to 20 micro-lot sizing in the next few weeks.Since the initial Release 3.0 version two major account protection enhancements have been put in place:1. All around reduced maximum "hard" stop-outs -- the newest signals are al...

volatility-trader-r20-LIVE in Trading Systems Feb 23, 2010 at 17:54

**********************************************************END OF FEB 2009 UPDATE -- 15.5% REAL ROI SINCE UPDATES = $4,650**********************************************************The VTr2/VTr3 set-up that ran through February proved to be very effective, easily making back the two large losses from the beginning of February due to the too-large-hard-stop models and adding another 8% onto that. Total earnings with new setup in February is around 15.5%, and we anticipate going forward it will be better as the new VL120 signals should be running for all of March.Our broker is down for most of th...

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