because you need those extra $300 to cover your losing days. or, to put it another way, if your goal is to average $500 a day, then walking away...
anybody else noticed that (some?) SUPERSOES fills now cost considerably more than $0.01? here's an excerpt from our account statement: buy 600...
no, i don't know how exactly it is calculated, but visually it comes across as if a simple low-pass filter has been applied to RSI (just look at...
FWIW, in our (day)trading, decimalization has not had any measurable effect. what has, however, is the volatility contraction: stocks move MUCH...
my company is a Datek customer as well. while i cannot really complain about the executions (we've done about 700 round-trip trades so far), i...
heheh, somehow i believe you are overestimating the age of the stock market :) - jaan
well, i use custom tools. you see, i'm a co-owner of a software house, so part of our "trading business plan" has been to convert our programming...
well, sort of. then again, in short timeframe you don't really need much of an edge to be decently profitable. - jaan
well, that's most certainly not true. otherwise you could make a killing using today's high as your profit target, and having about 85% winners...
i don't think that's true in general sense. as i mentioned on tony's thread, i've done extensive analysis of setup probabilities in the last three...
yup, that's excatly where i was getting at with my question. perhaps i misunderstood him, but tony made it sound as if the close at top 10% was a...
FWIW, while awaiting for your reply to my previous message, i took the liberty of performing a simple experiment on SEBL historical EOD data since...
wow. since you gave so precise probability number i would really like you to elaborate. are you saying that, historically, if a stock closes at...
http://toolkit.taltrade.com - jaan
DT-waw, i'm not sure i want to continue arguing, because you and i seem to be talking about completely different subjects. for example: 1....
DT-waw, although ArchAngel already answered for me, let me give you another example how to over-optimize a system over large number of trades:...
that's not true, really. as an (admittedly contrived) example, if your system has N potential trades to pick, you can apply N binary parameters...
nicodemus, although i would not condone what you did, i just want to tell you that your witty comments have made this board much more enjoyable...
voodoo, excellent points. i take back the ownership vs contract argument. so, to rephrase you, the fundamental difference between futures and...
ArchAngel, thanks for the long explanation -- very informative. but i stand behind my point: there is a fundamental difference between...
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