Crazy Markets
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THAT is a fantastic post Steve and I would like to thank you for it.
My personal target up until the point of reading that was 100 pips a day, over ambitious some would say, others would say unrealistic, that's as maybe however that post has hammered home to me, in black & white, that I only REALLY need ONE DECENT trade a day to be VERY WEALTHY, VERY QUICKLY.
Thank you VERY much, you made a difference today! :clap:
I was listening in and supposedly trading for a mate of mine who had a bad back so couldn't sit all day. Didn't take long to realise it was going to turn to dust.
At first I felt a bit sorry for the fella with all the crap and threats he was supposedly getting, sickeningly that now seems like it was fabricated also.
What made me laugh though was the news trading system he came out with and "gave" us all. It involved taking a buy and a sell just before the news and taking the hit with one and letting the other run....That's not the best bit though...
3 or 4 weeks ago he mentioned his past scalping results and that it'd take him too long to work them out so I offered on his chat thing to write a bit of code in Excel to whizz through his scalping results. I sent him a sample program in Excel that took a buy and a sell at midnight every night on cable and tested about 5 years of back OHLC data.
I never even got a thanks for that sheet but 3 weeks later he has this system that takes a buy/sell at the same time.
I stopped listening in last week some time and stopped trading for my mate a few weeks ago as it was just getting comical.
He also showed his 'automated' software in a webinar that was apparently 'programmed' into MetaTrader but had been programmed wrong, any sells you see should be buys and any buys should be sells. So the -1000's of pips should really be +1000's of pips when he [fixes it and] releases it to his members.
I'm a bit of a whizz when it comes to programming excel so I have tested all sorts of curious systems on years of back data and when you hit something that loses 20,000 pips over a few years the natural thought is to do the opposite of the trades, buy instead of sell and vice versa.
Doesn't work like that as you have the high/low of the bar to deal with and also the spread/commissions which turn the methods into losers both ways. There will be exceptions to this but a method that trades a lot through the day/night would not be reversible to make a profit in my experience. And I have over 10 years data to test and play with. I've got a decent background in betting [racing] so I know what I'm on about.
Having read this thread I've sent my mate some copied snippets to help him get a refund. Thanks to all those who went before us.
The best of it is though, Paul is still on the mic with all the front in the world. Effing unbelievable really. I'd love to see this saga on watchdog on the Beeb.
Ron
dwayneboy , i think if paul chalmers doesnt respond after the 10 days you automaticaly are entitled to your money back, i just stated i didnt get what i paid for waited 10 days and recieved a email sayind they ruled in my favourAre you guys getting refunds if the seller responded? Or just he didnt respond after 10 days?
I understand he still has 300 members, how?
I was listening in and supposedly trading for a mate of mine who had a bad back so couldn't sit all day. Didn't take long to realise it was going to turn to dust.
At first I felt a bit sorry for the fella with all the crap and threats he was supposedly getting, sickeningly that now seems like it was fabricated also.
What made me laugh though was the news trading system he came out with and "gave" us all. It involved taking a buy and a sell just before the news and taking the hit with one and letting the other run....That's not the best bit though...
3 or 4 weeks ago he mentioned his past scalping results and that it'd take him too long to work them out so I offered on his chat thing to write a bit of code in Excel to whizz through his scalping results. I sent him a sample program in Excel that took a buy and a sell at midnight every night on cable and tested about 5 years of back OHLC data.
I never even got a thanks for that sheet but 3 weeks later he has this system that takes a buy/sell at the same time.
I stopped listening in last week some time and stopped trading for my mate a few weeks ago as it was just getting comical.
He also showed his 'automated' software in a webinar that was apparently 'programmed' into MetaTrader but had been programmed wrong, any sells you see should be buys and any buys should be sells. So the -1000's of pips should really be +1000's of pips when he [fixes it and] releases it to his members.
I'm a bit of a whizz when it comes to programming excel so I have tested all sorts of curious systems on years of back data and when you hit something that loses 20,000 pips over a few years the natural thought is to do the opposite of the trades, buy instead of sell and vice versa.
Doesn't work like that as you have the high/low of the bar to deal with and also the spread/commissions which turn the methods into losers both ways. There will be exceptions to this but a method that trades a lot through the day/night would not be reversible to make a profit in my experience. And I have over 10 years data to test and play with. I've got a decent background in betting [racing] so I know what I'm on about.
Having read this thread I've sent my mate some copied snippets to help him get a refund. Thanks to all those who went before us.
The best of it is though, Paul is still on the mic with all the front in the world. Effing unbelievable really. I'd love to see this saga on watchdog on the Beeb.
Ron
dwayneboy , i think if paul chalmers doesnt respond after the 10 days you automaticaly are entitled to your money back, i just stated i didnt get what i paid for waited 10 days and recieved a email sayind they ruled in my favour