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    Has anyone lost their edge/system b/c too many people knew?

    OP, et al: The subject, losing edges, if and when so many people know is a myth of the Conventional Wisdom. Finders fees are commonly paid to those who bring clients to people in need of capital. the wheeling dealing is done in an "edge" context. Thje turnover in this part of the...
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    Membership titles?

    Neat, I associate you with #2. It looks like we have no overlap at all.
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    How do you measure Pace of action if you use Constant Volume Bars?

    remainder of post..... 3. Beginner trend trading. Here all the scalping and traverse signals are ignored. It will not be evident why and again it does not matter since the beginner is only making 2 to 3 times the ATR daily. Trends end on R or S and they are away from a thing called a...
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    How do you measure Pace of action if you use Constant Volume Bars?

    Quote from jack hershey: LOL This is just another signal generator that can be used for several styles of trading as an ATS. Obviously the coding up all three is what leads to the suppression coding that is so essential to eliminate spurous signals in most coding efforts. It is probably...
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    Membership titles?

    There are several provisions on ET for achieving a measure of a poster's relative position in trading. Profiles could be volumtarily filled in. There is provision for a signature that could hve substantive content. All of these require the reader to "accept" the tells of the provider...
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    How do you measure Pace of action if you use Constant Volume Bars?

    LOL This is just another signal generator that can be used for several styles of trading as an ATS. Obviously the coding up all three is what leads to the suppression coding that is so essential to eliminate spurous signals in most coding efforts. It is probably true that most coding does...
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    How do you measure Pace of action if you use Constant Volume Bars?

    For those using CVB's, the triad of variables is simply switched around a bit. Time and volume are interchanged. So the best leading indicator of price becomes the market pace a first derivative with respect to time. As often is the case a high impact visual indicator is required to take...
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    BACKTESTING: only 25% winners on MA crossovers?

    Good suggestion. Some people become good traders and some don't. Why fight the process most traders go through. It is interesting why trader28 and trader666 and teasingtara didn't ignore me. Personally, I believe that these people do see the market's offer and they do not take it for...
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    BACKTESTING: only 25% winners on MA crossovers?

    As a summary comment that can tie all the issues various people have aflicked themselves with, do the following: 1. Use the mechanical system cash cow v 1.3 as the hershey standard of trading intraday on the ES 5 minute intrabar (See 2 for intrabar adjustment). 2. Use version Cash cow 1.3...
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    BACKTESTING: only 25% winners on MA crossovers?

    Mostly anyone can learn to trade successfully. Often, however, the learning environment can slow one's progress down. Beginning with a foundation and adding bulding blocks can be a very helpful approach simply because it assures that the mind is growing in a critical path manner. I...
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    BACKTESTING: only 25% winners on MA crossovers?

    If you googled and found a series of inventions related to electrical power and power supplies, those were assigned to BTL via my father. Having common names could be confusing to the casual sarcastic observer. The OP has explained his trading career plight elsewhere and he has been...
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    BACKTESTING: only 25% winners on MA crossovers?

    Clambill There is a dirth of trading information in ET these days. This is probably because fewr traders are able to deal with the markets. Your exhibited thought processes leave something to be desired. Where you are to day was of interest at about the time elcetricity was invented...
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    Brain function and trading

    Here is the go to. go to Steenbarger's web site. while there go to John Boyd In that discussion series focus on OODA, invented by John Boyd. also find a description of Greenspoon's trading activities, i. e., his 400 lot level (ES) that he does 60 turns a day and that he averages...
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    Brain function and trading

    Brain function is easily measured today. A great deal of past research neglected to do this (See Traderzones old standbys). As a trader matures he goes from sympathetic to parasympathetic. If nitro and thunderdog were traders and trading, what they describe doing as trading is called...
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    Technical Strategy

    Will you ever figure out how to not have it in your punch bowl?
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    Technical Strategy

    Your perspective on what you do and believe is perfectly correct for you. Congrats on your perspective and having a viewpoint you feel is correct!!! It is perfect for you to think I am wrong; making me wrong is cool for you and you did it. That was a great post that articulates your...
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    Technical Strategy

    Very cool post. This is something that should be adopted for all those who have the needs set you do. Any person approaching the potential of becoming a great and expert trader has to, at some point, step across a line. I express it as three all cap words. It is very difficult to...
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    Technical Strategy

    General comment. Anyone who is a member of ET may do as they wish subject to the ET rules and moderation. One of the aspects of ET is learning to make money. Both members and sponsors do run boot camps. In each case the purpose of a bot camp is explained and people choose to go thropugh...
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    Technical Strategy

    Delightful post!!! Moreso for the various lines if those experiences have come your way. Seeing the before and after for another person ranks high as well. There are many many ways to trade profitably. Occasionally, some of those kinds of traders are in the same room. What delights...
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    Designing and Building a Profitable Automated Trading System

    See green parsing below for an update.
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