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Now that certainly makes more sense! :D

I don't know whether your intent was facetious, but I can assure you that my words were quite honest. I just wanted to make sure that the poster who nominated me understood that I have almost zero practical knowledge and taking anything I say as anything but amateur opinion would be like having...

SVMs were next on the list, though I have FAR less experience with them than I do NNs. That journey will take me quite a bit longer. Any ideas which rabbit holes I should start looking in, or should I just go for the deepest one I can find? Thanks -C

Really, I am just another amateur stumbling around in the dark who seems to have the semblance of know-how only because he has a background in Computer Science. Other than that, I am clueless!

The journey is more important than the goal, my friend. If it were as simple as using NN in the markets, then everyone would do it. So obviously, it isn't. However, as a Computer Science major and an engineer at heart, I enjoy reading and applying all areas of knowledge, and I think that...

Agreed to a certain extent. With character recognition, it is possible to take the bounding box around the character and scale it to the correct number of inputs (pixels) to feed the NN. So a large N could be scaled quite easily, without losing shape or form, to a 100x100 input to a NN. Hell...

I find that these situations are far more easy to find if you analyze them in terms of standard deviations from the historical average of distance to N-Moving Average, where N is the applicable time frame. Even better if you use constant volume bars. Everything reverts to the mean...

No, but cool nonetheless. Character recognition is something that NNs have been used for for a while. What I am looking for is how to train a neural network to identify chart patterns like support/resistance, pennants, flags, triangles, and whatnot. My biggest issue is that these patterns...

Just to add extra clarification, I want to say that I don't mean Neural Networks which use technical analysis measures like trend and MACD as predictors (there are plenty of papers on those). I want articles on actually identifying chart patterns. THanks!

I greatly appreciate the info guys -- but what I am really looking for is not Neural Networks as applied to price prediction, but rather binary classification of patterns. But those white papers on optimal trader were definitely interesting nonetheless. Thanks! -C

Not even a tipsicle?

Does anyone have a good article on what 'inputs' are best used when trying to train Neural Networks to identify specific chart patterns? I figure that each pattern would require its own well trained network ... but I can't figure out whether or not each network would also need its own unique...

That is probably because the low was 33.12. No wonder you didn't get in at 32! :D

BAC has had a nice run too! BAC was a steal back @ 32 for long term investors. With a 6.5%+ dividend (largest EVER) and being one of the largest banks in the US ... I mean, it was a no-brainer for the ROTH.

Since the new Macs run on Intel chips, using bootcamp you can dual boot MacOSX and Windows XP (or Vista) -- and since it isn't a PPC chip, no longer is there a translation phase, making XP on a Mac just as fast as XP on a PC.

Or, perhaps because cell phones have fully proliferated the market and are main stream, AT&T is finally running into competition of people using their cell as their primary line. I, for one, know that I don't have a hard line. Lots of people I know don't either -- and many shut theirs off...

Our troops are currently in 130 of 190 countries. That is absurd. I mean, please, someone explain to me why Japan is still under our protection. WWII was quite a while ago...

As I said, Reaver -- if you want to trade for yourself, and yourself alone, absolutely no degree is necessary. Personally, I think any entrepreneur is a slave to their clientèle -- that is the nature of the business world: 'The customer is always right.' If you are just going to manage...

I am sitting here chuckling to myself about all of you saying 'college is a waste of time', blah blah blah. What is so funny? None of you, who didn't go to college, even bothered to learn the true purpose of college. For those intelligent enough to recognize its purpose, college has NOTHING...

I really can't thank you guys enough. I think you are certainly right that a constant-time bar will not suffice for a mechanical trading system. However, I am currently trying to figure out if it makes more sense to use constant-tick, constant-volume, or constant-range. Constant-tick and...