Recent content by Kokomo Bogart

Though only a handfull of the cognoscenti here will understand our predicament, we endorse your encouragement of simplicity in trading. As recently orphaned llamingos who once were privileged to be in the presence of trading genius every day, we are struggling to regain our mastery of the index...

The difference between both and live trading is even more extraordinary.

Thanks to all who sent me advice by PM. I have decided to stay with old reliable HP, but I feel that the following recommendations merit repeating to ET at large. A Casio enthusiast wrote: "My backtests seem to reflect reality better when printed on a Casio." An Epson advocate shared: "I...

My local electronics stores carry HP, Epson and Casio. I am concerned that there might be subtle or unexpected differences between the readily available choices that will impact the quality of my trading. If it makes any difference, I scalp index futures. TIA for any advice.

Spy-der-Trader, do you remember us? When you came to visit Jack? And had a little too much peach schnapps? And Jack took you out into the back yard? And I (Kokomo) knocked you down? And Bogart humped you? What did you learn about internet gurus then? We wouldn't have done that if you didn't...

The Nugatory Delusion: the belief that your actions have no impact on the market. If that is so, why does the market always return to your entry position, and beyond, to take out your stops? Because you are not inconsequential. You do your part by entering at the same price as everyone else and...

Oh, please do! Master used to let us watch him trade, but he got offended at our snorting and snickering, so now we can only watch through the window.

I am the principal Argentinian market maker in futures on llamingo skins, primarily adobe colored. But occasionally I dabble in NQ for a busman's holiday. I disagree vehemently with the idea of staying out of the markets during low volume trading. Some of the best sustained price breakouts occur...

You really should look into a backtesting capability. E-Signal has a relatively affordable platform. I will have to think about it, but I believe that you have few enough parameters that you could optimize this system in short order. Given your forward testing results with seat-of-the-pants...

Looks to us (Kokomo and Bogart, we're Jack's llamas) like you NQ queers missed the fact that SPX twice went up to kiss the trend line it broke six days ago. We learned more from eating the boss's trashed charts than you'll ever learn in a lifetime of reading this drivel thread. Real men trade ES!