Originally Posted by Kinger
Hi all, I haven’t looked at this thread much for the past 6 months. But I’ve been trading this system with the original rules (as they work) for 4 months after forward testing for 6 months. I like this system as it’s very similar to another method I use which has been running for over 4 years and very profitable.
What advice I can give to you guys is this:
Never trade April and August (traders on holidays, mostly for low volumes)
Never trade bank holiday days in the UK or US.
Never trade the week leading up to Christmas or the week between Christmas and New Year.
Never trade the first week in January.
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RedGuerilla:
Excluding errors and omissions, I added all the no trade days from Aug 2010 to Apr 2011, Apr not done yet, using Mark's trading data.
So far, total pips lost = -252.5, 11 profits, 17 losses.
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Isn’t hindsight a wonderful thing? And I am really surprised at you RedGuerrilla for buying into this!
Isn’t it a little convenient for this info to come onto this forum after the last two weeks of poor results? You think this is what buyers of FMT want to hear after the last two weeks results? Some “I told you so” telling us all that we really should have gone on holiday this month?
PLEASE!!!!
We already knew that the three weeks mentioned over Christmas were rubbish. Those results are published on Mark’s journal as are the results of August last year. We didn’t need a detailed “No Trade Dates” sheet on those periods to know that losses exceeded wins! As for the months of April, last year April had the same result as March (using original 40/40 settings) and was better than February or May. So using last year’s figures we should all holiday February and May and trade March and April.
Tell you what, I’ll have a quick look over the last six months results and tell you the best exact dates to trade and the exact dates to avoid. I can guarantee that the first batch will be all wins and the second lot will be all losses.
Isn’t it a pity that Kinger didn’t give us the benefit of his “experience” around the 15th December last year?
I sincerely hope his detailed files on human anatomy are more useful!!???
Mike
Mike,
You took my analysis all wrong. This has nothing to do with hindsight.
This forum is great because I get ideas I have not thought about before.
Yes, I knew about Christmas, but I never thought about USD and GBP bank holidays.
I also knew about Aug based on Mark’s data, but we have never had a forwarded tested Apr.
FMT started forward testing Aug 2, 2010, check Mark’s website.
The whole basis of Kinger’s advice is to not trade during low volatility or volume.
I only care about forward testing. I am going to take every trade until Aug 2, 2011 which completes a year of forward testing for FMT.
Mark is taking every trade, and this is what I’ll be doing too.
If after a year of forward testing, Kinger’s advice comes out to be good advice, then I will use it.
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