Recent content by horribilicus

The poor guy doesn't appear to know the difference between plurals and possessives: Bright Idea's ... Turning the Light's on Over the years I've met a lot of engineers from Hong Kong who have the same difficulty, perhaps ES learned English in HK.

I saw a copy on alibris for $175 but didn't want to spend that kind of money on a flyer.

Securities Research Corp's books and CD's helped me a great deal.

"Don't shorter term strategies have lower drawdowns?" Seems like a perfect hypothesis to be studied via backtesting. Why ask random strangers for their opinions when you can get the computerized backtester to hand you facts and data?

Don't forget the fact that the government of South Africa shut down the platinum mines, leading to a shortage of supply, leading to an imbalance of supply vs. demand. http://tinyurl.com/yrwmd8 http://tinyurl.com/25s96y

It's commercial software. The company who sold it to me (and would be happy to sell it to you) is named at the top of the first page and the bottom of the last page. Look for "LLC" (Limited Liability Company), it goes on the end of company names. Once you type their name into Google, it will...

In my opinion, "winkb" is a good trading system. Its performance was detailed in this post: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=1191992&highlight=winkb#post1191992 However, Microsoft has changed its browser so it no longer reads old ".mht" format files correctly. You can...

Your letter will not have much influence because your English grammar is very bad. If your concern about this issue is genuine, and if you hope to be taken seriously by the CFTC, hire someone whose English is excellent and pay her to correct your errors. She could begin withPlurals...

OceanIndex(N) is just the natural log of (Rate_Of_Change(N)), divided by sqrt(N). See picture:

If "best chance of success" means "largest probability of winning trades", just make sure your stop loss is 10 times farther away than your profit target. Presto, 85% winners. I also think you would enjoy reading the poetry of Robert Service, for example...

I would pay One-And-Ten. A hedge fund or a CTA would charge me Two-And-Twenty. Some of that is a fee for access to their super miraculous wizardly strategies for trading, and some of it pays for the grunt work of data collection, system operation, order execution, back office accounting, and...

Hook N, the comparison you're trying to make is just plain retarded. (90 futures symbols, 418 months, 1300 trades) vs. (1 stock symbol, 202 months, 11 trades) Simply ridiculous.

Here's something pretty funny. Do a google advanced search for the phrase "fixed systems" on the ET website. You'll find two posts that match, one from marketsurfer who quotes Victor Niederhoffer as follows: I have an aversion to all fixed systems and purportedly easy ways of making money in...

To each his own; I find your ($totalprofits / $totalcommissions) ratio completely unacceptable. I think it indicates your trading advantage, your "edge", is unacceptably small. But that's just my opinion. I wouldn't trade your method and I wouldn't hire you to trade it for me. On the other...

That's simply not true. If you use MA1 = 1/2 cycle moving average, MA2 = full cycle moving average, MA3 = 1.5 cycle moving average, you will be 180 degrees out of phase with the market. Buying every top and selling every bottom. A spreadsheet is attached. Price is cyclic with period = 30...