Recent content by John Paterson

This company came out with a new version upgrade to their program that includes a new indicator, called the p-Indicator: http://www.tradingpatterns.com/News/Version/pindicator/The_p-Indicator.pdf The version upgrade was immediately withdrawn. What do you make out of this? Bugs, other...

Good question. I was also looking for something like that. Maybe someone can help.

Are you a moron or what?

ROFLMAO !!!!!!! A lot of newbies lately asking about an edge. ATTENTION, ATTENTION NEWBIES When you get one you'll know it. Just keep in mind it takes anywhere from 5 to 10 years if your IQ is above 180 to more than 10 years if your IQ is above 140 but less than 180 and maybe 20 years...

Geek programmers can show you how to wash your teeth while at the same time you are drinking your coffee. Gross...

rvince99, IMO you are mixing up two different things: portofolio diversification through allocation and trading risk (of ruin) management. Portoffolio diversification deals with unsystemic risk. A well-diversified portofolio in inversely correlated assets protects capital from risk related...

It is not a "local" check, especially checks #2 & #3 must be done at the IB server. They are dealing with thousands of trades and wait for thousands of confirmations from exchanges about bid and ask values. This sounds more of insurance during fast markets. They must wait for bid/ask...

Screen trading? How to you define that?

Not true in general.

Most people in those forums are from academia and many of them have never traded real money. Maybe they have investment accounts. For them money management means allocation between alternative investments vehicles and that is mostly what is discussed in the books you mentioned. For example...

Having ideas about what? About people giving you their money because you think you understand algorithmic trading? Have you heard of alpha and beta? Big money goes after low beta and most of the times stays away from high alpha. You sound like a newbie. After 10 years of real trading...

Do you always know the stop price as soon as you get your stock?

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/swingtrading.asp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noise_trader

Good work by Michael Harris. I think his classification of the different types of curve fitting based on entries, exists and timeframes makes a lot of sense.