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Old 2009-04-17, 04:54 AM   #352 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by peteronmaui View Post
Don't be fooled by Balance, the only one that counts is Equity. I traded a very similar system last summer, my Balance was growing by leaps and bounds, but my Equity was shrinking day by day. I nearly quit my day job, traded the system on three accounts until the day when the gbpjpy did not come up after it had gone down and I took a hefty loss.
If I would not have done that, I would have lost all. In currency trading it's just a myth, that what has gone up, must come down, and vice versa. Currencies don't have to do anything. Study currency charts over many years, and you will see that.
Peter
IMO AUDNZD is a bit different from GBPJPY. What helps here is the fact that New Zealand and Australia economies are quite correlated so they move slowly and in a relatively tight range. In case of GBPJPY this is quite a different story...

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