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    SCTlearning from scratch

    I'll post on each green segment you mention. 1. I use the top 20 sectors. the whole string of sectors are "numbered" as to their relative ranking. 2. Indiviedual sectors have a series of eekly rankings. thais is as weeks go by the ranking changes. 3. the "week" is a standard time...
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    What degree/master/phd would be the best for a trader?

    I had one job from graduation until 5 years out. I worked for IBM. I began and have continued as an amateur since 1957. by 1959 my comissions were > my salary at IBM. I always put 50% of salary into account. Many organizations have offered me jobs. As my knowldegeand skills became...
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    What degree/master/phd would be the best for a trader?

    Most people do not understand my posts. I am a scientist and logician. this means I went to college and I was employed in the computer industry where design is done using a system of logic related to the mathematics of computer operation. I worked on analog as well ad binary computers...
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    What degree/master/phd would be the best for a trader?

    You may wish to sit down and begin a process. For the sake of argument call the process Problem Solving. Here are some problems: 1. What education would be best for a trader? 2.. What could an individual do to trade and be most sucessful? 3. How does learning work...
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    There is no "system"

    You started a thread. you made statements. you ask how noise is studied? So what went wrong in your brain? look back in your education when you learned Sanskrit. You learned of the life-enhansing ingredients. As a group they embody sattva. this holistic combination is all...
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    What degree/master/phd would be the best for a trader?

    I'm sure I convey the simplisitc view you concluded. Two aspects of HFT training (eseially within a client base) are frequent commissions and fees. and the least possible profits if any. Look at expert effectiveness and expert efficiency. HFT is miises on both in terms of...
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    What degree/master/phd would be the best for a trader?

    this thread raised a question. for a person to take the full offer of the market, he has to use his mind which is contained in the brain. To go from your current status to being a wealthy trader, you have to effect a transition. A shortcut to understanding my prior points is to read...
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    What degree/master/phd would be the best for a trader?

    oh yeah the 600 and 700 series instruction for multiplication was prepeated additing and bi stable multivibrators (aand lock in relays in pairs) was where n-1 was invented. the Mayan discontinuity shwoed us all how important reigion (and aleins) could be when it came to multiplication and the...
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    What degree/master/phd would be the best for a trader?

    Just to cover some lose ends. My CV is rarely seen in its entirety by anyone. My last dinner in the East was with two top ranking anti terrorist administrators. (Isereali and US). I more recently in the East worked out of EOP. EOP put strategists in the field as attache's to complete...
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    What degree/master/phd would be the best for a trader?

    You comment is very telling. You read a subjective story. Thats satisfactory for you as your conclusion. I was suggesting Arithmetic, paradigm theory, logic theory and Boolean algebra. Everyone is welcome to show transaction records. Please review mine. Most traders have and...
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    What degree/master/phd would be the best for a trader?

    haha. very funny. yes look at the price ladder and see the limit orders there. Notice when the ladder BBid/BAsk changes. Notice all that time when it isn't changing. ha ha . It changes cos the minority goes to zero. the big giant majority keeps the price right where it is. add...
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    What degree/master/phd would be the best for a trader?

    Very very funny thread. Three good ontributors were: DBPoenix, skataphagos and Handle123. the most off base bsides the OP were: ras72, trade__canada, and commodity trader. formal training is usually the greatest cause of irreversable brain damage . This prevents most from gaining any...
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    Anyone here ever been to Normandy?

    there is no way a human can't be shaken by holding a piece of a glider that came in a little low for landing above the cliffs. It is just inhuman to thick of the sudden snuffing of the life of the kid next door. When I worked trauma at Good Sam in Phoenix, it never had the same impact of...
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    SCTlearning from scratch

    set up a rotating ranking for all sectors. use weekly ranking data this gives you an RDBMS where change of rank (first der) and rate of hange of rank (2nd der) can be analyzed. in making big money with big money you have to not exceed the normal block size. See trding 100,000 shares...
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    SCTlearning from scratch

    You are probably correct about ET records. Probly te big league sites are more oriented to SSR. IBD is tuned to sector rotation more than most other science based systems. about 200 sectors are well defined for sorting stocks. Then the sector status requires first and second derivative...
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    swing trading vs trend following

    a simple reasoned response to you.
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    swing trading vs trend following

    You may want to better educate yourself. you do NOT understand the few categories you mentioned. If you go to a reference, you will find 32 basic categories. Harris is a good example; see page 199 figure 8.1. In this heirarchy, I trade as two boxes listed. Start at the top (all traders)...
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    Anyone here ever been to Normandy?

    Living in US during wartime does do engender the feeling of being at war. as scientist a person in Us goe through getting security cleasances and sees the consequences of others violating such. I was living in Switzerland during the 6 days war between Isreal and Egypt... For whatever...
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    Does having a spouse with income help or hurt trading?

    there all kinds of women to marry. those with generations of wealth have relatives who will not like you. then then will tell you to stop making money rapidly and stop buying expensive cars homes and toys. I found that a nobles oblige woman's hertiage is BEST for dealing with new money...
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