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I’d be wary of affecting the effect of compounding over the years to come, you would be kicking yourself if you reduced the allocation to a well preforming system to re-balance only to see it keep out preform other systems over the coming years.

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Whats the go there do you ask for compensation?

All was good last night for me

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Sounds like a fairly random wide spread issue, IB said it should be resolved now. Nick had issues too

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did any one have trouble with orders in the US last night (1st feb)? only 2 out of 5 got filled for me, they were market orders. IB chat said they had some issues with certain exchanges

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I appreciate your honesty

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AsxMR 1 = + 1.98%
ASXMR2 = -0.44%

Total = +0.89%

Actually happy with the small gain this month was down around 5% in the middle of Jan after getting wacked over 2 days.

MR2 has been taken off line from today and i am starting a new momentum system in the US. In Jan it was up 20% so if i can capture some of that over the coming years i’ll be very happy. I’m calling it SAN5 (naming a system seems to help). I’m not going to place a hedge yet, i think the AUD might be at a juncture where is could reverse or stall for a period. I need to be careful i don’t end up trading the AuD by trying to pick tops/bottoms though.

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did you get your permissions sorted Scott?

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Because you are ranking each stock against each other and only taking the top x amount then there is no sB involved..

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I’m assuming you guys who are running aggressive momentum systems are going to post some huge gains this month! My backtest is up 17.4%, talk about a month too late, now i just have to buy into it!

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I think he is Rob, well that’s what i’m talking about anyway. What are you doing about it?

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I haven’t started my US system yet so i am not hedging at the moment, plus my US portfolio will be smaller than 1 contract, i think they have mini contracts? Won’t thy interest rates on a CFD ‘trade’ be too expensive to be used as a hedging tool? (Just my gut feel). I might need to look into the mini contracts a bit more and change my IB permissions

Anyone else out there doing anything different?

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Is this how you’re hedging scott? so if you have a 75k portfolio your buying that much? using 40:1 leverage?

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I agree, plus once i stop one of my ASX MR systems i bet it will rally 20% in six months.

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Do you think wait for a pull back?

I was just going to start on Feb 1, i don’t want to wait for a pull back and miss possible gains. I’m taking a longer term view

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My thoughts too Len, i have been testing a concentrated rotation system as you suggested on the NDX, it’s already up 10% this month and the Nasdaq chart looks well over stretched. I saw in Nick’s Nasdaq review (By Scott) on his website that they are saying similar and expect a pull back. But who knows could be in 6+ months, i think i’ll buy in next month if my systems ticked all the boxes.

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