My personal definition is that a trader is someone who looks to start with a pile of cash, enter a position, exit the position, and have a bigger...
I think the stock market is inefficient in the long term, but not in the way you describe. There are only two differences between the stock in...
This will presumably increase the difficulty of moving volume and thereby help the small guy in the short run. Despite being the aforementioned...
Nonsense. The number you need is almost entirely dependent on the variance in trade results. If your system gives you results of +1 unit per...
I asume there was concern about contaminated grain due to fallout. But I'm curious to hear from someone who traded through that as well.
I would look at some measure of numerical stability - how dependent is your system on just a few results during testing? One metric I use is to...
In terms of language quality, out of those languages I think Python would be by far the most pleasant to do system development in. However, it...
With perception like that, I think you'll make your money in days rather than the rather conservative period of weeks previously suggested :D
I think 5% is a pretty reasonable max during liquid market hours for any event that doesn't in and of itself prevent trade execution. That risk...
I don't get this - there has to be a lot of pent up IT demand from delayed purchasing from late 2008 and early this year. Most of those new boxes...
I think this thread is misleading in that many methods that nominally don't use stops in fact do. Anything that acts to get you out of a losing...
In fact, commissions aside, we can safely say it's been precisely as good a year for everyone but him as it's been a bad year for him.
This seems very close to being a complete list. I would add one other thing - the bets produced by your system with an edge need to have a...
Yeah, the bullshit is a little deep in places, isn't it?
In short, no, it won't work. Position sizing with Martingale is absurd. At best, it reduces your return by taking a larger than Kelly position...
My most successful method, while it lasted, returned roughly 1% on total equity daily on average. It doesn't work any more but that was a good...
I'm out at a profit. Not really looking to get back in, but you never know.
It probably is the only thing they do. We've got a semi-sovereign state, aka the tribe. It controls a casino. How is that not a state...
A deep ITM call is just like stock except for a hideous bid-ask gap and no liquidity outside of market makers who just take your order, take the...
I don't watch cramer, so I wouldn't know. What happened is that they paid a $4 dividend over last night. Stock drops $4 a share, I've got $4 a...
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