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Yes. I have an old pentium 4 box. It finds patterns much more slowly than the new i7.

Sure, I got for $10. I'll sell it to you for... hold on a sec... $40. Deal?

Why double when you can quadruple? On my calculator I press a "*" and then a "4" and then I keep pressing "=". It's amazing!

I don't trade. I develop systems and analyze data. Spending a week doing this on my busy schedule would be too costly, so i would just throw the feature (currently just an idea) out, which i might at this point. Thanks GS, i've had a look, some of that might just be usable for my purposes...

What's the easiest way to count homosexuals on ET? Post a topic with a vote "Are homosexuals better at trading?" 1- Yes 2- No

I somewhat agree. If there are people out there watching the news constantly, it would be good to put into perspective for me how often it happens that the same periodical release (or announcement) produces wildly different influences on volume (ie sometimes a lot, sometimes none). I'm not...

Is there a historical list (date/time) of news events that had a substantial influence on the SP500 volume and/or price? By "substantial" I mean that for example the volume jumped 300% and above of the 20 minute moving average volume, and that the price move was significant. I'm asking...

It depends on the platform. In the early days i created a grid within NinjaTrader with about 60 symbols and it lagged to death. That's because NT uses a for/next loop in managed code to tie up arriving ticks to charts/data in memory. I ended up coding my own platform, and with it, CPU you...

Yeah with a 1 to 80 ratio for target profit to stop loss and no edge, you can stay profitable for months! Then, all of a sudden, you're wiped out. Your example of a few months isn't really going to cut it. If gambling, it also helps to do martingale trading, so you can close your account...

You can do statistics on the statistics. Change parameters (or logic, inclusion/exclusion etc) with combinatorics, have some minimum delta and range and thus maximum number of combinations. Output the specific parameter results into 3d graphs. You'll probably get mostly noise but sometimes the...

I see. I think if he recommended you do quant testing, that this implies he thinks there is a possibility of an answer "yes". I doubt he was sarcastic and trying to make you waste your time. If we further narrow that assumption down, considering he stated the existance of a possibility, i think...

How could anyone have a yes-or-no answer to such a question? People can only have opinions on that subject, especially when your definition of "pattern" is so broad. In that case, it must be a yes - there probably are.

He did answer your question. He told you to get into true quant testing, you can test any TA idea you want that way. That's what i did and what others have done. If you can't develop software try using something from the market. There are also numerous discussions on non-elite forums from very...

Well, luck follows the brave as they say. And it's pretty brave to use tech like TSL. I think milewski is probably well aware of the amount of previous "hyped up scams" that have existed on the markets and fooled people into wasting money for the past 100 years. Maybe if TSL isn't like that, and...

I've been played! That's ok, i like pretending i'm smart... :cool:

It does get killed in a trend. MM HFTs prefer slow moving instruments with large ticks. Well it doesn't get killed completely. They still get a bid/ask range to stick around for a few seconds, but how long they stay at it depends on their algos and how much market orders they are willing to...

There will never be software that can do the job without any human intervention. If you can design and test a strategy in one hour compared to 30 days of manual work, i think it may be worth it. How much exactly depends on how much you value your time and what returns on capital you want. TSL is...

Sure. The ES e-mini is a good example here. The ticks are large and the spread is 1 tick wide virtually 100% of the time. Also, there is a message limit at the exchange so they can't post and pull too many bid/asks. There are two cases where HFT will make itself first in line. The speed...

If you guys look carefully at the Bid/Ask sizes you'll figure out how the HFT avoids staying on one side for too long. The length of time they keep a bid/ask is proportional to a statistically measured time (and a bit of a prediction) it takes for the market orders to get assymetrical to one...

Sounds like a virus to me. If not a virus then most likely, or if i could say certainly, a software problem. It could also be a slow, damaged or highly fragmented hard drive. It happened to me a long time ago. It also depends if your charting software caches data frequently to disk - in that...