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About your signature, Marylin Manson has a cool line in one of his songs : 'God is a number you cannot count to...' I personnaly like it :)

Right on harry :) I also noticed there seems to be a lot of people on both extremes, either too abstract (thinking all the time and elaborating concepts wont do much if nobody applies them) or too concrete (just gimme a nail I'll hit on it with my hammer :P). I would tend to beware of those...

In programming terms, abstraction means regrouping certain concepts together. Concrete means an instance of this abstraction that has its own existence. Hence I would say reality is both concrete and abstract. For example, I can describe a pair of boobs with many different levels of abstraction...

I dont believe in ONE system that would be 100% accurate all the time. Just look at science, it's been around for so long, and there were many many great minds who elaborated complex systems and equations to explain the universe, yet every now and them someone else comes along and proves them...

Thanks for the answers! Good point, this is actually the reason why I think trading systems work anyways, because people follow them, just like you and I do. So I guess the key is identifying what system are most of them following, and taking action based on that. Many times, just like you...

I am a programmer, and I'm trying to use my competences in the best way to help me for my trading, which is of course coming down with some kind of technical trading system based on analysis by some program. The thing is, I personnaly believe that the most important variable in trading is not...