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$1,000,000 QUESTION

Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 4:22 pm
by TheRumpledOne
$1,000,000 QUESTION




WHICH WAY WILL IT MOVE - UP OR DOWN?

USDJPY has an average 60 minute range of 27 pips.

If you can capture 6 pips gross an hour, then you can turn $500 into over a million dollars in less than a month.



All you have to do is "guess" which way USDJPY is going to go at the open of each 60 minute candle.

Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 1:41 am
by Lynx
If it were that easy. I would settle for less LOL. What about the other pairs? I dont understand much how forex works (the pips to dollars conversions) but would be interesting to see which pairs turn into that million faster under the same conditions.

Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 7:53 am
by TheRumpledOne
USDJPY and GBPUSD are the most volatile pairs and widely traded.

GBPUSD also has a 27 pip 60 minute avg range.

But you can buy more USDJPY than GBPUSD for the same money.

Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 4:05 pm
by ing.hana
Nice vision Dolar_Smile But you should mention that the risk of the first trade will be completely different from the last one :smt077

Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 6:21 pm
by 4x=0
no its always 4% gain.

6 pips gross per hour, or 4 pips net.

You can risk a constant 10% to get that :)

WELCOME ABOARD

Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 8:07 pm
by TheRumpledOne
This is an "ALL IN" STRATEGY.. so after each successful trade, you are risking more money. But considering where you started... it shouldn't be a big deal.

Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 12:31 am
by pr
The money is there, so to speak, but how to make it is left as an exercise for the reader! :)

Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 12:48 am
by daniil
Hi Avery!
do you still handle the "2% club"?
i am trying to trade Milk The Cows and the BZ on "real", so -30 pips after 3 weeks :((
please tell me - do you use fixed stoploss? is it 5 pips? what the average time are you in the trade?
BRGDS, Dan

Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 3:37 am
by TheRumpledOne
Yes, TWO PERCENT CLUB is still open.

Usually 5 pip SL. Don't know avg time.

Teeth supporting the supposition!

Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 4:49 am
by casinoman
Avery's absolutely right regarding the next hour's bar being a 50-50 proposition as to the bar's direction up or down.

Suppose the previous three bars opening price is also the high and closes at the low, down 20 pips. Three consecutive bars each straight down indicating a down 'trend' for those three hours. It is just as probable that the next hour's bar will go up as it is that it will go down. Just because the preceeding 3 bars were down is no assurance that specifically the next bar will also be down nor will it be limited to only 20 pips - could be 50 or 100 pips.

For the most part it is true that if the price is moving in a direction that it will continue in that general direction relative to the specific time period used to establish the direction of the price trend (i.e. the price is down for the day and down for the last 3 hours - but that same price could be up for the week and up for the month - different time trading segments). But the fact is as to specifically the direction the very next bar will take is an unknown and unpredictable. However it is a fact that only 3 things can occur and 1 of them will actually occur which are the price goes up, goes down or stays flat.

If I proposed to you that we flip a coin so if it comes up heads I'll give you 99 cents and if it comes up tails you'll give me 1 dollar. You'd probably tell me to kiss off because it is so easy to see the disadvantage that you'd have and the advantage that I'd have. Mathematically I would be beating you out of 1/2 cent every time the coin was flipped and after 100,000 flips you'd have lost $500 to me. Well this is essentially the exact same proposition offered by the forex (actually any trading instrument).

Assume that you:

(1) Always take a long position at the opening price of an arbitrarily selected new hour's bar, regardless of the preceeding bar(s) visually apparent directional trend.

(2) You ridgidly adhere to restricting your net stop loss amount to 6 pips (your risk or bet) and re-enter a long position should the price re-bound to your target entering price within the bar stopped out of.

(3) If you are stopped out and unable to re-enter as in #2 and a new hourly bar opens, you will follow #1.

(4) Once you have taken a position you will stay in the position, regardless of the number of subsequent bars, until you are stopped out per #2 or the price moves up where you would net 27 pips.

You'll likely find your results are in the range of a net positive expectation of 10% with an average winning percentage of 20% and losing 80% (1 out of 5). This doesn't mean that if you lose 4 in row that you'll win the next one, its an AVERAGE! You could lose 12 in a row (7% probability of occuring), win 1, lose 2, win 2, lose 2 and win 1. It takes a large number of trials for probability to reach true/real numbers.

The same concept can be used using a smaller gain of pips other than 27. You could use 20, 15 or 10 but what happens is the cost of the transaction goes up percentage wise relative to the smaller gain in pips. In addition, the percentage of wins to loses increases substantially. I could show you the optimum numbers but to tell the truth, I'm getting tired of typing :)