What happens if you think you have struck gold? - page 6

 
tootrue:

Win Rate 78.61% for Short positions and 88.57% for long positions this is taken from the Strategy Tester report Short Positions won(%) and Long Positions won(%)

Average 83.59

I make it 128.9219 vs 83.59

Average loss and Average win . . . not WR for Short and Long

100 * (average loss / (average loss + average win) ) cannot be > 100

 

I did it in excel and put a - infront of the losss

Try again

81.67689 vs 83.59

Is that good?

 
tootrue:

I did it in excel and put a - infront of the losss

Try again

81.67689 vs 83.59

Is that good?

In my opinion it's within a reasonable margin of error of being about as good as a Coin Toss
 
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Beautiful Lines

 
RaptorUK:
In my opinion it's within a reasonable margin of error of being about as good as a Coin Toss


Oh well

I guess you have been around the forum long enough to know.

I have a feeling my hopes will be dashed when it comes to live trading but thanks for the input

 
tootrue:


Oh well

I guess you have been around the forum long enough to know.

I have a feeling my hopes will be dashed when it comes to live trading but thanks for the input

Not really, it's just my opinion, if you can make money with it I'm happy for you but my opinion is that you won't consistently make money with it.
 
tootrue: The spread is set at 2 pips

What value did you put there? Is your broker 4 digits (a 2) or 5 digits (a 20)?
 
WHRoeder:

What value did you put there? Is your broker 4 digits (a 2) or 5 digits (a 20)?

2
 

Broker is Alpari Typical spread 1.6

Reason: