Recent content by Direlect

MarketAddict, i'm not able to open attachments on my iphone( I am visiting family for the holiday). I'll be home tomorrow. I definitely want to see what you see in the chart. For now , i have to go to bed. Thanks again for the replies.

The database testing is my next resort. I know c++ and java.. and some Ruby. Thanks for the replies everyone.

The first quote was in reference to how everyone has a different explanation for why the markets move. I have recently just traded the Rut2k. That's it. I just do volatility spreads. Occasionally i'll do earnings straddles on stocks. I won't get myself to do directional plays anymore...

Study what? Even a relatively young science like quantum physics has objective information and peer review. I'm sorry but staring at charts all day and night is unproductive. I am not against studying and learning-- far from it. Studying established information with precedent is a typical...

I don't have anything to do with any website. I wouldn't waste my money on P&F charting software anyway.

I don't have the option of watching a trader. What do you recommend? This is not an easy discipline to learn simply for the fact that seemingly every commentary on what is happening, what has happened, and what will happen is at odds with each other. I don't expect to learn this from osmosis...

How does one study noise? The after -the-fact rationalizations are no indication of predictablity. There is literally no way to test hypothesis because you can't control for single variables. What then, is being studied? Why is simple pattern recognition elusive?

Then market your system. Invariable consistent income sounds like an easy business model.

Eventually you must come to the realization that there is no "system" that guarantees a certain amount of gains. When people say there is a system, they are referring to the success they've had with a small sample size of trades. An objective way of trading profitably would have been...