Someone replied that all is fair in love and war. I have learned this statement is absolutely true. I am in stock trading for 17years now and in forex for 7years. In any business one has to do some risk management and especially those that you cannot foresee. Internet, website, phone downtimes is part thereof. Even some manipulation but that you can learn to observe through experience. That is why I asked if there is Market Making involve. The problem I face is that the count of these risk occurrences over a 7 week period of trading the ALSI is just to high. I tried to get some answers as to what is the average count of these occurrences on the ALSI through SBank without any success. I have established a fairly good risk profile over the 7 years of trading forex on a platform when it comes to problems related to the specific platform I am using as well as the internet service provider I am using. The count of problems over this 7week period trading the ALSI on Easytrader outnumber the worst case scenario of my risk profile of 7years in forex by far. I have also experienced a Saffex downtime in this 7weeks where I could do nothing. Not even close the trade. I could not establish with SBank how many times this has occurred lets say in one year. All they say is I must take it up with the JSE. It is thus very difficult to establish an unforeseen risk profile unless I take the worst case scenario that downtime can be for a whole day plus at least the opening of the next day which can result in about 1000 points. That is a 30% risk on one occurrence. Therefore I need advice from the forum people involved in Easytrader to supply me with some information as to your own experience. On a one year basis what would you say is the once off worst case scenario for the year in terms of points and on a monthly basis what would you say is the monthly average slippage based upon the problems as outlined above. I am not talking about own mistakes, I am talking system problems. On a lighter note, I even had to include some slippage in my risk profile due to mother nature calling and I had to leave a position unattended but with a stoploss in place. I had some losses in the 7 years due to that position just not reaching the target and then turned to take out my stop in the 7-8 minutes I was away. I could not learn to do it any faster. Still working on that one. Can you please assist me with this request. Thanks.
