Recent content by meatyoaker

What about trader tax status, mark-to-market election for ordinary income/losses? https://www.thetaxadviser.com/issues/2010/feb/sec475mark-to-marketelection.html

This, exactly! Buying the dip after what you thought should've been a breakout (of a high/channel/band or something) for a short-term move! I don't know how you figure this stuff out without the ability to quickly backtest 15-20 years of data, but you do haha. I guess it's kind of like a flag...

You might have some IQ, but can you https://leetcode.com ? Are you CodeForces/TopCoder RED? Are you getting paid at least this much: https://www.levels.fyi/2020 ? Just kidding lol. In all seriousness, coding is just too much work. I really enjoyed it at one point too, and growing up, but after...

Do you guys think there's more money in selling trading courses or selling (mediocre) automated strategies/bots?

Wow, BIG balls, BIG size! Congrats!

How much leverage would you apply on the original 5%/-5%? Go 10x bigger for 50%/-50%?

Damn, partying like that in his 70s? I'm in my 20s and struggle just to get out of bed in the morning lol. Sheesh.

I'm wondering what people would do in this situation. Let's say you've proven yourself a profitable trader with around $100k equity, 4x buying power on a retail margin account = $400k (let's ignore 6x portfolio margin exists for a sec), and your live max drawdown has been about -17.5%. Then...

Yeah baby yeah! I'm gonna be the next Bill Hwang! BIG leverage! In all seriousness, was able to play with it this Friday night, and I like it a lot. I looked at a few examples and instantly knew how to at least get started and make an attempt. My day trade stuff plugged right in, and close...

Gonna give RealTest a shot this weekend. :) I've been saying that for months actually, but writing it down here for some accountability haha. I haven't been able to find any new edges in a while, so I might as well play around with some new software to see if I like it better. Would be glad if I...

I like to look at MAR Ratio and Ulcer Performance Index. Then I check correlations in the whole portfolio.

Out of the hundreds I've read as well, I actually haven't checked out Howard Bandy's stuff, so I'll give it a go. I just got some Perry Kaufman books as well. I've already read Rob Carver and Andreas Clenow. And yes, I wouldn't take any strategy directly out of a book either. I was just...

I also use Norgate Data EOD, woo! AmiBroker user here. I've read Laurens Bensdorp's books, didn't really learn anything new, tested all the strategies in them and saw some pretty poor results, much inferior to what was published in the book at least. Any more suggestions on resources where I...

Sorry I can only do daily/EOD and mostly stocks.