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  1. J

    Has anyone else noticed this March - July 2010 daily chart pattern?

    Give yourself credit for a unique call. -5 For any n00bs out there take the quiz on how this chart gets a -5. Un F**king believable.
  2. J

    Books Better than Dale Carnegie's "How To Influence People"?

    It is always fun to see another humor based thread in this forum. Most people are frightened of knowing themselves. So, to take this thread off topic, here are six books no one has cracked. They are in a rough order. 1 "First, Break All the Rules", 2. "Now, Discover Your...
  3. J

    1 - 5 Minute Timeframe Automated Strategies (E-Mini SP) Before 2009 and After

    We do not agree on anything but the very important requirement for accuracy. My prior comments dealt with item 1. My comments below are from a presonal context that does not have these issues because these issues were processed before a long term context, meaning during a long period of time...
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    How much info do big guys know about your positions ??

    FYI, any market has "tells". Extracting the market's offer is not a brief momentary experience. Making money is done in "chunks" or what is called profit segments. There is a relationship between chunk size and trades per day. In ES a chunk is measured in terms of margin. You...
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    how much do retail traders know about big boy's positions?

    The SEC monitors accounts. One of its foci is traders who trade very successfully on POA's of other accounts. You may be detected by the SEC if you consistently and successfully trade ahead of the herd. The herd includes big money. Once you are detected, then the SEC gets interested in...
  6. J

    wanting to be right over making money?

    Thank you for your views and explaining how you consistently make money as a result of profiting from market group think that is consistently wrong, i. e., the market can stay irrational longer than another criteria you know of. Then you discuss an idea and how such an idea affords you losing...
  7. J

    1 - 5 Minute Timeframe Automated Strategies (E-Mini SP) Before 2009 and After

    Thanks again. We agree fully that accuracy is of highest importance.
  8. J

    1 - 5 Minute Timeframe Automated Strategies (E-Mini SP) Before 2009 and After

    Thanks for your reply. The alternative, as suggested to you, is that no anticipation nor code changing is required. I am probably misreading what you wrote. It sounds like you stated that your work is sensitive to something as the "times change" or that at "different times" things work...
  9. J

    Law student trying to get into Automated Trading

    So true; anyone can build his mind to be able to tell a programmer what, how and why to do it. There is no one who makes the decision who cannot be a successful trader. A lot of people fail but it is NEVER because they were NOT capable. The bar to entering trading is set as low as any...
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    Law student trying to get into Automated Trading

    A very interesting thing to consider for a moment is the computer. Programming and IT are just ticks on the time line of the financial industry. Long before either, the traditions of the financial industry were cast. The mainline of making money for the financial industry has nothing to...
  11. J

    Law student trying to get into Automated Trading

    Imagine joepaterno being able to sit through it and learn one thing...... lol The monopoly board was priceless. I also liked the niche PEP didn't fall inot..... Our concept of using extracted profits to solve local problems is so pertinent.
  12. J

    1 - 5 Minute Timeframe Automated Strategies (E-Mini SP) Before 2009 and After

    I read the thread. Your opening post outlines the reasons for your failures. Others comments, those who have a handle on analysis, are those you can switch to to establish a standard. Just as you do not wish to reveal the details of what you are doing improperly, it probably not useful...
  13. J

    Law student trying to get into Automated Trading

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOP2V_np2c0
  14. J

    Law student trying to get into Automated Trading

    I don't think GS does much of anything outside the box. Are any methods licensed anywhere?
  15. J

    sector volume

    Use IBD.
  16. J

    How do they do it?

    Their ATS's may have a high correlaton to the market's continung offer; run the numbers on that. Next, run the numbers on how and when they fall short of the market's offer. The contests are kinda oversimplifyied usually, so don't expect too great a performance. Contest are not open to...
  17. J

    Law student trying to get into Automated Trading

    The vantage point of my comments to you are my life experience. As you see from a recent viewpoint designed to be helpful to you, and I quote: "I speak from a trader's perspective, someone, who utilizes the skills of programmers and IT teams. I do not see a single advantage for you to...
  18. J

    I always buy at the top!

    Bookmarking may be used to put any errant trader on the correct side of the market with very small losses if any losses. Don't worry that you ilk can't fathom this. Make it a practice to ignore anything you do not understand. In that way you do not have to worry about anything in your...
  19. J

    Hardest and Most Valuable Things In Trading

    As you say there is no problem here. It is like when a bird watcher uses a bird book. Some birds have funny names. What is so fortunate about things is I am always wrong and you are always correct. ET owes you a great deal.
  20. J

    How to calculate this ?

    Certainly, it is diffiicult for you to see or understand what is going on in this thread. Your solution to the problem was what it was. Often people with whom you associate deal with a sinusoid riding on a carrier and they optimize profit taking and they optimize entering another similar...
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