Recent content by traderdeezina

But there are so many people who trade well short-term using even 5 minute time-series? I think if you are trading using Macro Analysis, then it could come good in a 'big' way (or go bad in a big way) but you also need the capital to make it big when you feel you have a good bet. But it is...

I remember doing the optimization thing for a trading course. The book that we used had optimization techniques based on some physics phenomenons. But the thing I could never understand with optimization is: Shouldn't there really be one optimum way to trade looking into the past? So, why are...

You mean making long-term bets (based on economic analysis) or just that trading doesn't pay off in the short-term?

Suppose I do an analysis and find a stock with a high Kurtosis (makes good deviations) and it is skewed to the right substantially. So I know that there are more strong movements upwards , whereas the down movement tend to take place less often and aren't perhaps as strong (even if they are...