I think you may want to do some analysis for your own system. If you are not able to do it, go home and ask your dad to do it for you. LOL .
This trade alone lost more than 300K. If this trade is filtered out, the system reached new high again. The C2 interface messed up with oversized on GC and got partly liquidted by C2 at the local low point. Otherwise my order to get out even should be filled. My average cost is less than 1800 and it reached 1800 later.
8/10/11 18:29 BUY 85 QGCZ1 1799.66 8/11 11:31 1764.10 Extreme ($303,477 )
C2 didn’t “mess up.” You tried to hold open a position of 85 Gold futures contracts, and you kept buying more as the price moved down, and you had a margin call when you finally exhausted your available margin.
As an aside, please don’t post these types of messages on the C2 Forum. If you insist on posting them, they belong on your system forum.
- Matthew
Ok, please lock this topic. I will not reply to this topic any more.
MoneyGrubber - you destroyed your system through poor management - take it like a man and move on.
Blaming C2 for this trade… priceless. 
8/10/11 18:29 BTO 5 QGCZ1 1814
8/10/11 19:03 BTO 5 QGCZ1 1802.50
8/10/11 19:06 BTO 5 QGCZ1 1802.20
8/10/11 19:13 BTO 10 QGCZ1 1800.80
8/10/11 22:03 BTO 20 QGCZ1 1799
8/10/11 22:03 BTO 20 QGCZ1 1799.50
8/10/11 22:14 BTO 20 QGCZ1 1795
8/10/11 23:03 STC 17 QGCZ1 1786.60
Margin call (auto-generated).
8/11/11 9:35 STC 20 QGCZ1 1763.50
8/11/11 10:48 STC 20 QGCZ1 1755.50
8/11/11 10:51 STC 20 QGCZ1 1757.10
8/11/11 11:31 STC 8 QGCZ1 1756.80
Dennis,
That trade history sounds like a good definition of a Martingale approach.
I do have a drawdown, but so what? My system performance is still more than double sicne inception for 5 months, your system return is negative since inception for 10 months.
Want to bash me? Beat me first. Let the performance speaks.
