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FLVT - Looking back at your post and my comment above, I've realised that your figures include the 24 June (Brexit). We're not comparing like with like, but if I include my £27k of Brext winnings who knows what the comparison would reveal.

Yes Ken;
Equity Balance;
Just before BrExit: £32K,
Just after BrExit: £70K, a gain of £38K.
Now; £92K.

Also, I not not try to compare which is a better system, but simply tell you and others how I getting on. A opposite approach to the same profit - How to gain from the market. My base stake is 0.001% (70p/80p), where as yous is starting @ £2.00. Therefore like-for-like is not the same, otherwise my profit need to multiply by 2+ times.

Anyway, I do feel Somnus is more safe than ever, as there is a limit of 6 trades, so there is a limited downside. But having double stake on 2nd series and beyond, with the market behave unpredictable, there may be one day the worse can happen, but I hope not. As you know me, I do try to cater for all possibility. So I do feel that you need £30K+ on £1/pp stake to be on the safe side.

On my system, yes most trades are protected in a way, but when the market move sideways, without knowing when the breakthrough will be, I am loosing cash that way (and yes, t/p will be adjusted accordingly), but at the mean time, my cash flow will be running low, with higher level coming up, my stake/pp will increase, that means more margin will be required. Therefore, I cut my level down in the LIVE system to protect my pot. Otherwise, more margin will require where I may not have. Therefore I decided to build up the pot slowly. If I feel the market move sideways, I would do the same again. I assume just like you stop the series after the 6th trade.

On the whole, I do feel I am more comfortable than yours is that I can leave it automated (provided I give it a reasonable capital to start with, in testing; just £2k, but in LIVE, most likely to be £5K, with 0.001% stake), as the system is self balance, when given enough cash to cater for the sideway market move. There is no monitoring with the use of 2nd charts etc. That's the objective of an EA's.

But your objective is more different, that give you a FULL time job, right? :-)

Enough as it is now, give you another update later on.

Best of luck to you all, as always.

p.s. I may not be posting, but I am always around...

monday will be interesting
not sure whether or not i'll do anything though i banked some Dax profit on friday so have a fair amount in the kitty

as it stands both Dax and Dow have rallied through important levels though FTSE has yet to get there

Hi Ken, these are interesting times. And as cynic has remarked above though not mentioned, now that TM has given an approximate deadline (end of March) for Article 50 then uncertainty could but not necessarily spook the markets. What intrigues me is why your good self after sixteen years over the road on the BARC thread has changed direction, ie buy and hold to system trading? At age 81. Respect.

Chris - Do you really want my life's history apart from what it says in my profile?

I invested about £760k in what I considered safe/dividend producing shares as a retirement hedge and they are now worth about £305k. The truth is I've lost interest in them as there's nothing I can do except sit tight and hope that my children will benefit eventually.

I retired in March last year and to me this thread is simply a way of keeping my brain active and at the same time it pays for my wife's hairdresser and a few holidays.

:0) Brilliant Ken.

perhaps she's been raiding your pension pot if it really has lost about 60% of its value

confess i got very lucky when "accidentally" buying that little freehold in W11 back in 1978

looks to me that Dax is beginning to run out of puff and it's probably true of Dow as well

depending on how preoccupied i am, may take a small Dax short later or even shortly as i note from the 10-minute chart that 10,560 is proving something of an obstacle

FT100 mega jump this morning, is that to do with BrEXit timetable, or market in general.

GKFX demo is dead again, but the LIVE is OK.
They looks to have so much trouble lately, any suggestion on another broker, at least for the DEMO for the time being. I think IG is no good as they spike their price all the time to gain their advantage on their book, expecially on non-trading hrs. (my view, and my view ONLY).

So, what are you using, and why? any suggestion?
Thanks in advance.

IG L2 gives live prices so i don't think that can be rigged

dopey cynic :-)
forgot it was a holiday in germany today so shan't do anything or at least not on Dax

Cynic,
What is the definition of a LIVE prices? To me, it is when the market is open, where all other brokers is up and running as well, then you can do comparison. As I work night, I check IG prices quite often during the night. I believe (not necessary true) that they spike up and down sharply during the night, when no one else has the LIVE trading. So, there is nothing to compare with. Yes, there is Far-East's new may make a different. What I find strange is that after spike up, as well as down. It mostly end of the same point as last night closing area.

As I said, my view, and my view ONLY, not necessary true.

Apart from IG, another broker has DAX "LIVE" price at the moment?

FLVT - There's no DAX trading, as it's a holiday. IG are of course trading it.

We should see a decent move tomorrow morning, but I'm not guessing which way it will be.

sorry m8 but i go to sleep at night :-)
suggest you give IG a call and ask them a straight question
it is likely that cash Dax between say 22:00 and 07:00 is more a reflection of what is happening on F/E markets and a "guesstimate" by the brokers of where things will be heading come the morning

Cynic - I've probably posted this on here before, but I wouldn't use IG. When a friend asked why a spike had closed his trade the answer they gave was that 'their T&C's allow them to close trades to balance their books'.

Of course it's your money you're trading with not mine!

Morning Ken,
I am not having a go with IG, I just prepare myself, may be a move away from GKFX, as I find their system down too often, LIVE as well as DEMO.
As DEMO is still down, if you are trading on fx, that's 10 hrs trading... It may not be important if you are trading LIVE, for testing, it is.
Also, LIVE market is often down up to 20Mins at the start if trading as well.

So, just broker hunting/looking...

p.s. Ken, you just hit it directly on the nail. I assume not many of their client know that! do they read their T&C, I wonder.

i think i've only once had a problem with IG and i think that was legit - ie when the markets collapsed o'night following the brexit vote

other than that, and like you, i don't run stops as spikes in either direction are quite common nowadays with so much computer-driven trading

Yes, spike may do nothing, as you don't have STOP, but can generate more un-wanted trading positions, as price hit certain levels, which can be worse!

Sorry FLVT - I've looked at several and I can't find anyone better than GKFX, but please let us know if you do.

With the exception of IG, as far as I've been able to find they all seem to use the same futures data. IG don't of course and that's why they are able to trade while others are closed.

Give your account manager a ring and ask why your live trading is working, but your demo isn't.