Here's something to help get the thread back on track. The theory behind orb is that the high/low of the day is likely to be made early and the...
Probably irrelevant. I've traded with many agnostics that had ice water in their veins. It's more likely confidence born from a positive track...
Sure, the parable of the talents in Matthew 25:14 - 30. Man given 5 talents invests/trades and creates 5 talents more. When his master returns...
I'm assuming you'd increase size to take advantage of geometric growth of return. If you risked say 1% to achieve 20% returns you're saying I...
Trading is not about maximizing profit but rather maximizing the reward (profit) to risk (max. drawdown) ratio. In optimal F the maximum...
I'm not concerned with risk of ruin. I hate deep drawdowns. My testing has shown me the single biggest factor in the depth of a drawdown is the...
At $450 it's a bargain. If you're looking to plug in a formula and make big bucks forget it. If you want to learn about the process of trading off...
Could never imagine risking more than 1.5% per-trade.
http://www.itginc.com/research/whitepapers/madhavan/TP_Spring_2002_Madhavan.pdf
Here's the ranking of trendiness by market from strongest to weakest for everything I follow.
Standard path to becoming a trader is a BSBA from a good university, a MBA from a top 5 school, a SAT min. of 1250, and a competitive spirit that...
Well, if you want to work here is the basics. For every system I develop I use DUM. D - Define All systems are based on finding and...
Missed the attachment.
I guess one last one. Here's the ES market from 1997 to the present.
If anyone wants to replicate these tests, I used Pinnacle data for both the VIX info. and the CLC (Continuously linked contracts)....
And finally the overall summary for the Russell 2000 from 1993 - present. I never traded it but I thought i'd run it just to see how it did.
Same system with the overall summary for the ND market.
Here's the overall summary for the SP market.
Here's the annual summary from Nov. 1995 - present for the SP market.
This model was based on something I found using the VIX as a "tell" for the future market direction. I started out in trading with OEX index...
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