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August 6th, 2011, 07:28 AM
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I won't be holding my breath. Like I...
I won't be holding my breath.
Like I said, I don't care what kind of edge you think you've developed. Between slippage and commissions, there's no edge in the world that's going to hold up...
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August 5th, 2011, 09:43 PM
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In a word....no. If you were to place your...
In a word....no.
If you were to place your stop loss at 1 tick, your strategy would get absolutely slaughtered, I don't care what your profit target value was.
This is very dependent on the...
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August 4th, 2011, 10:26 PM
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My point is that using monpere as a positive...
My point is that using monpere as a positive example is dangerous, because I think he's the exception, not the norm.
There's a fine line between telling a child "you can be ANYTHING you want to...
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August 4th, 2011, 09:56 PM
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Your point is taken, but at the same time, it's a...
Your point is taken, but at the same time, it's a bit like using Tiger Woods at the top of his game to illustrate to someone who's never seen golf before how easy it can be.
What works for...
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August 4th, 2011, 10:36 AM
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It all depends on your perspective. Helping...
It all depends on your perspective.
Helping a crack addict, to some, might be "adding to a loser." To those that would help them, there's something that tells them that the person can turn it...
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August 4th, 2011, 10:09 AM
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Furthermore, I've seen some optimization software...
Furthermore, I've seen some optimization software and drooled over the ability to create 3 dimensional "heat" maps that show nodes for 3 dimensions...a test target parameter (net profit, drawdown,...
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August 4th, 2011, 09:52 AM
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This is where the beauty of optimization comes...
This is where the beauty of optimization comes in.
If for instance, you have an initial stop, you can vary the secondary stop activation level and the secondary stop amount and the optimization...
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August 4th, 2011, 08:50 AM
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I got called amaeturish for revealing that some...
I got called amaeturish for revealing that some pretty interesting strategies I've developed came by way of testing a strategy and discovering that not only did it fail, but failed miserably. By...
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August 4th, 2011, 07:56 AM
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Like I've said a 1000 times, there are very few...
Like I've said a 1000 times, there are very few hard, fast and irefutables in trading. What's a disaster for one person, might be a saving grace for another. There's tons of inputs/outputs and...
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August 3rd, 2011, 10:55 AM
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Not to be a conspiracy theorist, but I'm...
Not to be a conspiracy theorist, but I'm convinced after watching oil now all this time, that there's manipulation and traps that ocurr.
If you have a small/tight stop, it's very easy to get...
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August 3rd, 2011, 10:40 AM
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I also think that systems that employ "1:3...
I also think that systems that employ "1:3 risk/reward" tend to focus heavily on entry efficiency and edge. To expand on what you're saying...if your edge encounters a bad patch in the market, then...
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