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Black Swan
I think the edge will work but the spread will always increase losers and decrease winners, especially if, like me, you have trouble holding onto trades. I would have been out of all those trades with 5 to 10 ticks so for me spread would make a huge difference, not to mention all the other potential pitfalls of SBing. In particular some of my trades might only have a 3 or 4 tick stop, I think that's asking for trouble when SBing.
Lifetime of learning to get exits right...if ever...No debate that there's a 10-15% 'tw@t factor' when s-betting versus other methods, measured over a long series of trades that can be quite a pill, adding that to the fact that their platforms aren't..ahem..designed to cope with playing off lower TFs and it can make a difference..But I just reckon it's a good place to start, even better place to start would trading EU at 2 pip spread given it's volume etc..but often folk can find the world of forex scary at first and want to trade that thing they see in/on the news all the time...