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From this video you can learn how to increase your luck in trading

Even if you automate the trading then you have to deal with negative emotions, for example when you lose a lot of money.

Ralph Vince discusses it in his book I would love to explain it but optimization is too much complex issue

Here you can read to stop overtrading http://www.decisiveinvesting.com/blog/emotional-control/how-to-deal-with-overtrading/ You can use the same method to get rid of other bad habits

I also like Tim Ferriss's book. Here you can find how to adapt it to trading http://www.decisiveinvesting.com/blog/stress-free-2/proven-way-to-trade-less-and-increase-your-profits/

In this book you can find how long should be your test set for a given number of parameters. I read this book few years ago so I don't remember the exact formula http://www.amazon.com/Algorithmic-Trading-Winning-Strategies-Rationale/dp/1118460146

I like this solution

It is hard to find a person with absolutely closed or opened heart chakra. It also takes some time to open it a little bit more. But in general having opened heart chakra is accepting and loving yourself and you can do it for example if you say mantra that I mentioned before.

You can open higher chakras using mantras. For example you can open heart chakra by saying "I love and accept myself"

It is proven that people who use their intuition make better decisions than people who use only logic. But you don't have to smoke dope to take advantage of it

The worst you can do when you want to master a new strategy is punishing yourself when you fail to do it. It is very unpleasant and doesn’t work. In fact you should know how to set a habit, how to purse yourself when you follow your plan, how to motivate, how to measure your results. Without...

It is discussed in this video . You can also check his interview in "Market Wizards".

I disagree. For example Ed Seykota started from nothing and in next 16 years he made 250k %. You can't make so much profit from nothing only because of luck.

In "Algorithimc Trading" you can find simple rules which prevent curve fitting. 1. Share your data series on two halves. Search for parameters/formations based on first half and test your parameters on the second half. 2. There is a formula which tells you how many data you need to have to...