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That's the nature of the game. It's not called zero sum for no reason. Many will wash out, usually because they thought that this would be "easy" money.

Even if you don't have a 6th sense you can always fall back on simple observation: Trade 1: I'm surprised this was even a valid trade. Momentum went immediately against you. Even if you didn't have a spidy sense you could have exited after a couple of minutes when price never went 1 pip in your favo...

I meet with a group of local traders about once a month to discuss various things. We had several folks there at the last meeting who astounded me with their lack of knowledge. This is not to be boastful but I realize perhaps I know more about trading than I even realize. Either that or the "av...

I meet with a group of local traders about once a month to discuss various things. We had several folks there at the last meeting who astounded me with their lack of knowledge. This is not to be boastful but I realize perhaps I know more about trading than I even realize. Either that or the "av...

I meet with a group of local traders about once a month to discuss various things. We had several folks there who astounded me with their lack of knowledge. This is not to be boastful but I realize perhaps I know more about trading than I even realize. Either that or the "average trader" i...

If you do it well there is no reason to be bashful.

Tell them you are Forex Pirate. Yar!

What if you traded today knowing you may die tomorrow and that your chances to survive the next 6 months were nearly zero? Would you fear taking your setups? Would you hold back anything that you knew your were capable of? Would you trade each day as though it were your last? What if your name was V...

You may want to research how GAs work and optimization in general. The Evaluation and Optimization of Trading Strategies by Robert Pardo is an excellent reference work that should introduce you to the basics. At the most basic level with any optimization method you will have variables (which could b...

Its been a couple years since I was looking into this. I found pretty much what you discovered. Most of the C# code out there for GAs was non-trading specific and you needed to know how to modify it to be appropriate for trading analysis. Or it was already built into another trading platform/softwar...

The markets can remain irrational far longer than you think. The market does not care where you got stopped out or where you made profit. It does not care that you classify it as "choppy" or "trendy" or whether you think it is "easy" or not. If there is an opportunity b...