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Strategy Talk discussions, page 6
Setups, sessions, backtests and trade management. Explain the idea, not a signal to copy.
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| Drawdown rules: what triggers you to step back to demo? Strategy Talk · FTC Community Team Staff | 0 | 101 | 1 mo ago |
| Profit targets per day: do you stop when you're ahead? Strategy Talk · FTC Community Team Staff | 0 | 88 | 1 mo ago |
| Weekly loss limits versus daily: which do you use? Strategy Talk · FTC Community Team Staff | 0 | 95 | 1 mo ago |
| Daily loss limits: what's your number, and how do you enforce it? Strategy Talk · FTC Community Team Staff | 0 | 100 | 1 mo ago |
| Volatility-based sizing: what's your formula? Strategy Talk · FTC Community Team Staff | 0 | 97 | 1 mo ago |
| The Kelly criterion: does anyone actually use it? Strategy Talk · FTC Community Team Staff | 0 | 108 | 1 mo ago |
| Fixed fractional sizing: how do you calculate yours? Strategy Talk · FTC Community Team Staff | 0 | 96 | 1 mo ago |
| Swap in your strategy: profit centre or slow leak? Strategy Talk · FTC Community Team Staff | 0 | 91 | 1 mo ago |
| Slippage in your backtests: how much do you assume? Strategy Talk · FTC Community Team Staff | 0 | 91 | 1 mo ago |
| Does your strategy survive the costs? Strategy Talk · FTC Community Team Staff | 0 | 94 | 1 mo ago |
| How do you evaluate a new setup idea? Strategy Talk · FTC Community Team Staff | 0 | 86 | 1 mo ago |
| One strategy or many: how many setups do you trade? Strategy Talk · FTC Community Team Staff | 0 | 88 | 1 mo ago |
| When do you kill a strategy? Strategy Talk · FTC Community Team Staff | 0 | 95 | 1 mo ago |
| How do you document a strategy so you can actually follow it? Strategy Talk · FTC Community Team Staff | 0 | 93 | 1 mo ago |
| Monte Carlo thinking: how do you stress-test a strategy? Strategy Talk · FTC Community Team Staff | 0 | 91 | 1 mo ago |
| Overfitting: how do you know you've done it? Strategy Talk · FTC Community Team Staff | 0 | 95 | 1 mo ago |
| Walk-forward testing: do you bother? Strategy Talk · FTC Community Team Staff | 0 | 92 | 1 mo ago |
| Forward testing on demo: what's your protocol? Strategy Talk · FTC Community Team Staff | 0 | 92 | 1 mo ago |
| Backtesting by hand: how many trades do you collect before trusting a setup? Strategy Talk · FTC Community Team Staff | 0 | 89 | 1 mo ago |
| How do you pick between swing and day trading? Strategy Talk · FTC Community Team Staff | 0 | 93 | 1 mo ago |
| Position trading: how do you hold for months? Strategy Talk · FTC Community Team Staff | 0 | 90 | 1 mo ago |
| Scalping: what's your honest reality check? Strategy Talk · FTC Community Team Staff | 0 | 94 | 1 mo ago |
| Swing trading: what's your typical holding period? Strategy Talk · FTC Community Team Staff | 0 | 91 | 1 mo ago |
| Trend trading: what's your trailing method? Strategy Talk · FTC Community Team Staff | 0 | 90 | 1 mo ago |
| Mean reversion: what's your fade setup? Strategy Talk · FTC Community Team Staff | 0 | 93 | 1 mo ago |
| Momentum trading: how do you actually measure momentum? Strategy Talk · FTC Community Team Staff | 0 | 103 | 1 mo ago |
| Volatility compression: what do you do with a squeeze? Strategy Talk · FTC Community Team Staff | 0 | 97 | 1 mo ago |
| ADR-based strategies: trading the average daily range Strategy Talk · FTC Community Team Staff | 0 | 120 | 1 mo ago |
| Day-of-week effects: do you trade Mondays and Fridays differently? Strategy Talk · FTC Community Team Staff | 0 | 92 | 1 mo ago |
| Time-of-day stats: do you know when your setup actually works? Strategy Talk · FTC Community Team Staff | 0 | 92 | 1 mo ago |
| Hedging with opposite positions: does it ever make sense? Strategy Talk · FTC Community Team Staff | 0 | 92 | 1 mo ago |
| DCA into losers: a strategy or a coping mechanism? Strategy Talk · FTC Community Team Staff | 0 | 99 | 1 mo ago |
| Grid and martingale: honest experiences, good and bad Strategy Talk · FTC Community Team Staff | 0 | 91 | 1 mo ago |
| Basket trading: expressing one view across many pairs Strategy Talk · FTC Community Team Staff | 0 | 82 | 1 mo ago |
| Correlation strategies: trading the spread between two pairs Strategy Talk · FTC Community Team Staff | 0 | 91 | 1 mo ago |
| Carry strategies: how do you build one properly? Strategy Talk · FTC Community Team Staff | 0 | 91 | 1 mo ago |
| Gap strategies: do you trade the weekend gap? Strategy Talk · FTC Community Team Staff | 0 | 92 | 1 mo ago |
| Central bank decision day: what's your actual play? Strategy Talk · FTC Community Team Staff | 0 | 95 | 1 mo ago |
| Do you trade the first hour after a major release? Strategy Talk · FTC Community Team Staff | 0 | 91 | 1 mo ago |
| News trading: straddle, fade or wait? Strategy Talk · FTC Community Team Staff | 0 | 98 | 1 mo ago |
| The New York open and the London overlap: how do you trade it? Strategy Talk · FTC Community Team Staff | 0 | 96 | 1 mo ago |
| London close strategies: what do you watch at the end of the day? Strategy Talk · FTC Community Team Staff | 0 | 99 | 1 mo ago |
| How do you treat the Asian session range? Strategy Talk · FTC Community Team Staff | 0 | 95 | 1 mo ago |
| Where do you put your stop for a breakout trade? Strategy Talk · FTC Community Team Staff | 0 | 97 | 1 mo ago |
| Fixed risk-reward versus market-driven exits: which won for you? Strategy Talk · FTC Community Team Staff | 0 | 95 | 1 mo ago |
| ATR targets and trails: how do you use volatility in your plan? Strategy Talk · FTC Community Team Staff | 0 | 96 | 1 mo ago |
| Higher highs and lower lows: what's your precise trend definition? Strategy Talk · FTC Community Team Staff | 0 | 89 | 1 mo ago |
| Multi-timeframe analysis: how many layers is too many? Strategy Talk · FTC Community Team Staff | 0 | 95 | 1 mo ago |
| Price action only: what does your chart look like? Strategy Talk · FTC Community Team Staff | 0 | 89 | 1 mo ago |
| Double tops and bottoms: how do you measure and trade them? Strategy Talk · FTC Community Team Staff | 0 | 97 | 1 mo ago |