Recent content by hightech

I don't disagree with anything that you have posted here, except that I was not the individual asking about what an edge is. If you look carefully at my post, I was merely giving an example of what an edge is not in response to someone else's comment that time and profitability were a measure...

I believe that there is a thread called something like "system trading with acrary" somewhere here on ET. On that thread, there were a number of discussions as to how one could be making a profit for a period of even as long as a few weeks and it would not necessarily constitute an "edge"...

just how did you estimate the likely behaviour? This seems like a crucial element in the whole scheme. Overall, the idea of reducing the number of "behaviours" into finite buckets seems like a pretty good idea. thanx, hightech

thank you for your quick reply

Spydertrader, I have spent the last two hours scanning over your diary of using the Hershey method and your patience in answering questions, many of which have been asked more than once. I stumbled across this thread and it piqued my curiosity because it had similar characteristics to a...

"5 months Man those were the days.....I took $12,000 (I know its not 5000) in just under 5 months. Took TRAC from 3 to over 30, BIDS (this pos still around lol) from the Toronto exchange to Nasdaq from 3 to 32, KTEL from 7 to 70, 265 points from QCOM, 125 pts from YHOO." yeah, the problem was...