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Automating systems is not about smooth up trending equity curves. It is more about does this system meet your goals and objectives on a continuous basis when using your trading plans methods. I have seen smooth equity curves get chewed up in real time trading by factors like increased slippage...

Still laughing! Management benefit of the doubt….Wheee!! Thanks.

What is going around on the web....... What you may not know about Herman Cain who is running for president.... He’s not a career politician (in fact he has never held political office). He’s known as a pizza guy, but there’s a lot more to him. He’s also a computer guy, a banker guy...

About 20 years ago I built a simple variation of the Triple Moving Average Crossover that was my ‘old’ edge that worked profitably many times in the 1990’s. What I later learned is I had build a trend following system that bombed in congestion and volatility so I moved on. Just Google...

About 20 years ago I was trading using the same methods you do (programmed in MetaStock at the time). Those weekly systems led me to the swing and intraday trading I do today. They can teach you many of the basic lessons of trading. But there is one area you should think about when trading...

Your question has been bantered about for years on ET treads. It is not a stupid question. Let me try to give it a different spin. As a preface the typical responses to your post are “Why, in the world would I share my profitable ‘edge’ with you or anyone else” and “Where are you...

IntradayBill and I are total direct opposites in how we generate trading code. I have written commercial code since 1973 in numerous programming languages on many mainframe, minicomputer and PC operating systems. Today in my retirement I write the majority of my trading code in TradeStation Easy...

I love your analogy comparing trading to playing a guitar. Many traders make a lot of profitable sounds but few make the sweet sound of making consistent profits that is music to our ears...

I live in the Detroit suburbs. The reason it won’t sell quick is because of location. Human infrastructure essentials from education to shopping are poor, leaving or are now nonexistent. There are many more homes like this in an old beautiful area of Detroit that come from a grander era...

I don’t rate any of retail software platform providers above average in reliability and stability. The majority of them are trying to pour out new features faster than their developers can debug them. Many are forced to rewrite features after a multitude of customer complaints. A few software...

I worked in IT 35 years before retiring. In an IBM database installation their software chewed up our data. IBM later admitted the error was their mistake. Their mistake was costly to us because of the huge recovery we had to do that shut computing off for three days. In a meeting with our...

That is not quite correct. We have our queen. http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/13827

Talk of revolution today does seem out of place in American. It is not something we ever imagine could ever happen to us again like happened in the late 1700s and it is never mentioned in any context seriously in this country. But then again I never imagined I would hear talk of America being...

Most of my family and cousins run small businesses to make their living. These family members are not all died in the wool Republicans. Many of them come from Democratic households dating to FDR that voted for Obama. The questions my family keeps raising again and again about Obama’s...

I got the same impression that defense cuts are not currently a big part of the debt debate. I can understand why. The defense industry is a big employer. Both sides feel this is not the time to cut their steady employment. Defense is still supporting multiple foreign wars. This would...

This started long before Perot: The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground… Most bad government has grown out of too much government… When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is...

Call the Tea Party dead. Great! I don’t care if there is a tea party. But I do care about their ideas that are still very much alive and will be for many years to come. The best “Tea Party” idea is what that Rick Santelli originally stated. I was listening to Rick Santelli during his...

No, the Tea Party is not going away. It is just beginning. When each American (man, woman and child) realizes they are each on the hook for $49,000 of this national debt things will change. The real panic will not come from congress. Some day in the future some major country will refuse to...

Wow! I’m Gobsmacked to find out I’m basically British. Wait until I tell my kids. They will have a benny when I explain this to them and probably tell me I’m off my trolley.

Passion is the elixir traders take that let them overcome the numerous failures on the road to successful trading.:D