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Martin Stibor #:
[D]oes the edge survive when you scale it up — or do spread and slippage start eating the thin-margin scalps before the size does any good? Have you hit any ceiling there yet, or is it holding as you grow it?

"Survive" is such an appropriate word for my strategy when intraday volatility is low. During those days, my EA goes into "self preservation" mode by reducing position size to the minimum allowed─and then waits for the market phase to change back to volatile, when the 1% of balance position size goes back into effect. The growth curve is basically a vibrating upward line interspersed by smoother sideways steps─most within 2 or 3% drawdown, with %5 being the worst. I've not noticed an issue with slippage, and spread is baked into the testing/design of the EA.

The underlying concept is to use tiny positions as "crash test dummies" for the purpose of detecting when live trading conditions return to a state of profitability per the rules of my strategy.

 
Alexey Dudin #:

Chill out, mate xD Let the market do its thing


I also got a bit of a hit today and took a bit of profit; it’ll still make some money by tomorrow anyway! This is my new system on the sub-mega-upgrade ‘Veroniya-7-29-Astral-Anisotropic-Hunter-The free radical’

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Veronika Terenteva #:

I’ve also tweaked it a bit and dialled it back a little today – it’ll still be working by tomorrow anyway! This is my new system on the sub-mega-upgrade ‘Veroniya-7-29-Astral-Anisotropic-Hunter-The free radical’


In fact, it went up from 200 cents to 3,171 cents in one evening, but to withdraw the minimum of 40 dollars – the ‘broker’s limit’ I had to transfer funds from another account to this one, so the actual profit for the evening was over 1,500 per cent.
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