...thanks for sharing that valuable experience. I correspond with a trader who has automated trading with TS and he told me thought he was getting...
..now that is interesting. If my brain had another half maybe I could put it to work on ES. Do you typically have trades on in both...
Re IB, I went to the combination of E-Signal for charting/backtesting and IB for brokerage because the overwhelming majority of successful traders...
...OT, could you please share any observations you'd care to on the quality of automated execution at TS? I am stubbornly hanging on to E-Signal...
...how true all that is. I came to regard TA with the same distaste as the pattern of capillaries on a fat old drunk's nose (came from too much...
FWIW, I closed out a rollover IRA I was trading actively at Fido three years ago because the connectivity was poor, the fills were slow and the...
Three years ago I attended a presentation by Mr. Deel made to the Dallas Association for Technical Analysis. He is a very articulate presenter. He...
...Never wrassle with a pig. The pig likes it too much.
...the younger generation is so perverse. When I suggested having someone over, I was thinking of a poetry reading or French lessons. The...
...sorry to be so dense. Now I get it. In my experience that is excellent. The system I currently trade yields only about 1.1 to 1, but I trade it...
...I trade from California, up at 5:00, make breakfast, set up the software, ready for the 6:30 open. Here are some suggestions: - while you...
..I believe another way to express what you said about Boolean algebra is that a fuzzy logic approach works in the markets: if this greater than...
...IMO there is a fundamental flaw in backtesting a strategy on individual stocks. Given the crookedness of the system (specialist/MM games,...
...thanks. If I am doing the algebra right, your expression for expectancy boils down to [(1-%Win)*avgLoss + %Win*avgWin]/avgLoss, which is...
Personally I prefer to use the last drawdown divided into the profit run which preceded it.
Traded small orders with IB for two years. Currently trading futures one order every day. Market orders only. Never a problem with excessive...
...thanks for replying. By "opportunity" do you mean the fraction of allowed trade times which result in trades? E.g., for a daily system, three...
...I have found that stops and targets (and sometimes reverses) will improve a system 10-20%. Without getting into specifics, are your systems...
...thenks for your replies. Compared to the wisdom in Grob109's post above, anything I say clearly is beginnerish. However, I have been...
...that was very generous of you to compose such a thorough answer. To read it was a humbling experience. It is very much like reading about the...
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