Search results

Thanks, Fadertrader. I'm there! Albert

Yes, I am studying it- that is the returns of CTAs, hedge funds, etc. Actually, pretty easy to come by for the winners. Survivor bias, I guess. I've gotten pretty revved up by the whole thing. I am thinking of hiring some Psych or Business Grad. students to flesh this all out for me in the...

To optioncoach and fadertrader: Where were you guys when I needed you? The die is cast, the deed is done. optioncoach: I think you overestimate the MBA limbo level. I don't have to bend that hard. Secondly, the format is that the classes are in a six week format. This is an introduction to...

Thanks, you are right. I am more interested in the process right now. I have time to fix a lot of these problems. Just getting competent at the SPSS program is enough work by itself. And for what it is worth, this is not meant to be a publishable piece, more like an exercise in statistics and...

I have 10 completed responses. Still need 15 more, maybe the females can chip in here. 100% male so far. Surprising number of traders that rely on trading as their income! Albert

Great, 15 minutes and already there are 8 respondents. Thank you so much! Woohoo!! I was worried about getting any responses. Albert

I would like some help from all the traders out there no matter the success level or the activity level. I'm posting a link to the above rendered survey. This will let me count the responses. Thanks in advance. http://www.questionpro.com/akira/TakeSurvey?id=399580 Albert I just took it...

This is the updated survey. Looking for feedback before I put it out there for responses. ___________________________________________________ This survey is intended to assess a hypothesis forwarded during my MBA course. Please answer the following questions. They are to be collected and...

There are a couple of other issues that I need to hammer out. I need to find a way to keep the information private. I don't mind sharing general numbers with everybody, such as average age or profitability or style of participant, but I surely will not specify that Joe X does this or has that...

I want to thank all of you for me being generous with your suggestions and professional with the tone of all the comments. To reply: Survivor bias is the issue that most concerns me, but maybe I'll get lucky and some beginners that frequent the site will participate. Sampling errors...

Hello all. I am in the beginning weeks of a statistics class online through Baker College and in need of a research project. Since I love trading I thought I'd start here. I am interested in starting a survey of traders and evaluating the impact of longevity on success. My research paper's...

It's a small, small (relatively speaking) world and if REALITY is that which you perceive, then so be it. But it is also a fact-based objective world out there that knows the difference between a $10 gain ("Look, I'm the king.") and a $10 loss (Look, I'm the king anyway, because I feel the...

If I ask a hundred people to perform a measured task and monitor them without their knowing it, I will get a certain pecentage of winners and losers and some in the middle. If I ask them to peform a measured task and tell them that they are being monitored, then the curve shifts upward and the...

I use Bright House as my primary (cable) and Earthlink as my back up. I like the DSL better (faster) but I think it SEEMS faster because the other computers are all behind a Netgear router and there is only one computer on the DSL. Also, I think somebody is hijacking my cable connection because...

I do this occasionally (average down) but never more than two more times, and find that it depends on the market I'm trading. Has as much to do with my confidence in that particular market or stock, meaning have I won or lost in this particular security. If I have a bunch of winners (Natural...

Pattern day trading would be a problem on an account less than 25k so finding the afternoon edge and getting out the next morning would overcome that. Albert

Christ was a bastard. Mary was a "virgin" because they had not paid the Roman tax for marriage yet and "virgin" was the euphemism for that. Christ was probably schizotypal. A homeless guy in the desert lost and aimless. He would be living under a bridge today or in a shelter. He would most...

he's wrong. Albert

All indicators except price are lagging indicators. Does that make them useless too? So you trade only price in a vacuum? Wow, Zen trading! Albert

Figure out the average range over the last ten days(weeks, months or minutes, depending on your time frame) Are you above or below the last pertinent close (maybe Friday's, yesterday's, Dec. 31st, whatever) If you are above the last pertinent close by more than two ranges and below the last...