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RSI values depend on the starting point because of the exponential MAs. If you allow enough time on a chart the values will converge. Usually about a year.

Bonds pay coupons, not yields. Yield is performance to maturity. Maybe this is confusing you. The yield is the rate you get to maturity provided all coupons are reinvested at that rate. Kind of tricky. Get one of the introductory books by F. Fabozzi.

Trading is all about finding a robust method or algo with positive expectation as a function of time and then applying proper risk management to minimize risk of ruin and maximize equity growth. All else, is a waste of time, I mean a total waste of time. If you are afraid of your emotions, just...

When did you stop trading that method? Did you manage to keep the small fortune? http://www.infomine.com/investment/stock-markets/indexes/oseax/all/ Six years ago the Oslo market was in a bull run like most of the markets in Europe and US. Without wanting to undermine your good intentions...

and optimized to perfection.... These people are rediscovering the wheel.

Sounds to me like a clear warning to traders to stay away from old TA, more than anything else... Anyway, a breakout can be either UP or DN, and the probability is 50% to win in the best case, then take out commissions and in the longer-term you are out of the game.

Nothing these systems do you cannot do with tradestation, ninjatarder or amibroker, to name a few platforms. Actually they seem to be for starters and sound like they just discovered backtesting at a time when it is losing value amongst traders....

Although QIM hasn't been doing all that great lately probably because of sheer size, maybe it pays to know what its founder has said about systems and patterns "In the book Hedge Fund Market Wizards (May 2012), there is an interview of Jaffray Woodriff, the founder of QIM. When he was asked...

Every idiot out there thinks that they can get a free platform like NT and free data from msn or Google or yahoo and then trade their way to riches. Trading is no different than any other business and the more you invest for tools the higher the chances of success. There are good and bad tools...

The best way to limit drawdown is by getting in and exiting fast with small profit objective and even smaller stop. But in this case MAs won't help you. You need to move to something with less lag. You sound to me like me 10 years ago. You'll figure this out alone in time.

All of them? .....:)

DRYS at $2 for investors, but the owners and their kids live good life in myconos island according to reports, arrving there at luxury yacht and spending thousands for each meal.

Anythign can be skill until it turns to luck or the other way around.

Most divergences have ended up losing money this year.

Mom and pop investors just discovered the stock market last week after the 1700 point hype on the S&P 500 by the media. When there are enough of them in then the institutional will unload hard and mom and pop will be left with the short end of the stick as usual and another 2 years to recover...

Imo "objective or psychological" is not the issue. At the end you will never know whether the decision was due to skill or due to emotions. There is good TA and bad TA. Most traders do bad TA because it is easy. Good TA is hard. It is the same in almost all professions. It is hard to be a good...

The profits of the skilled traders come from those who gamble. Edges are dynamic, they come and go. A few edges will die next month but a few new ones will show up and last for enough time to make those that know them rich. Finding an edge is not easy. I consider as an edge any system that can...

I tend to agree.

Try 3 sigma events.

"This covers any imaginable application and any imaginable need you may have." I think this is true with AFL.