Hi,

I don’t want to bore everyone with my view/opinion about posting someone’s “BEST settings” (but just in case someone missed it during all the reposting and renaming… that has been going on the past few days) for the following reasons:

1) I’m not convinced that settings found with MT4 "A" (downloaded from one particular broker) will work for everybody. You’ll most likely find different results in different MT4’s
2) Secondly, and this is my main concern, I suppose most people will be using Alpari's data, right? If so, would it be safe to say the settings found in that case can only be 'guaranteed' (<-for lack of a better word..) on MT4's using Alpari's live streams...?!?
Since we are optimizing/fine tuning for personal best results, isn’t it therefore a bit pointless optimizing something with data you are not gonna be using once you go live?!?
(a bit like adjusting the suspension of a formula 1 car for best performance with Michelins but ones the race starts we put Bridgestone’s on?)

Hope I don’t sound to negative here but I think one should always take a bit of care in blindly trusting someone’s settings…
I think it is best, whenever possible, to use, the actual ticks from your REAL account.

Since I’m ever the optimist I hope I'll be proven wrong…!


Now for some constructive remarks:
1) Would it be an idea to use fixed starting amount, let's say 5000? Just to prevent any confusion in the future? Otherwise saying: “I’ve got 1344 more profit” is rather pointless…
2) Would everyone agree that MM should be set to 'false' for optimization and post those results? Otherwise results might be reflecting the clever increase/decrease of the lot size done by the MM more then the actual change in settings?

CU all later!