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good points. with a 100% mechanical system that has worked nicely in the past, how would you determine the difference between a drawdown and a dead system?

I am still in my first year as an non-professional, non mark to market, independent futures trader, and have not yet filed taxes as a trader. I had a few general questions if anyone could lend some advice. 1. I trade through IB. Is it ok if I'm saving my daily and monthly statements in...

shoot, havent you guys figured out yet to vote the opposite of your positions? i need some long votes here.

Interesting idea, thinking outside the box which is great. Do you mean a basket of securities that trades in a smooth parabolic fashion, like the shape of an MA? ...or do you literally mean to find a way to hedge or scale a position such that your synthetic security's value is equal to...

what exactly is a commodity pool?

It's cool how many musicians there are among us. I wouldn't have thought so. If only my music was worth a little more dough. Experimental film soundtracks are pretty low on the musical pay scale, at least so far.

the one pit trader I know personally on the NYBOT doesnt trade intraday. Every position his firm holds is weeks to months, and they hold a lot of em. so today, he's probably turning over several positions from February, and picking up several to last through the year. I'm not sure how...

freelance composer for television and film.

Whether you go paper or real, I would highly recommend that you do NOT trade delayed data. Unless you're trading 60 minute bars or greater, I think a 15 minute delay will ravage most systems. Just a ball park, I would guess this could knock at least 20-30% off a decent swing system if not much...

I'm not looking for a flaming debate... but, I would guess that the ultimate purpose of such a system would be to identify and circumvent specific potential attacks. I also find it hard to believe they would respect anonymity. Sounds like the carrot in Elmer Fud's rabbit trap to me. I think...

Today I was thinking I would have done better to fade my strategy, and wondering if there was a way to predict when it would reverse phase, but in past attempts to backtest a poor strategy in reverse they have still come out just as bad or worse. When I first started backtesting strategies in...

The two risks on my mind every single night that I'm net long or short are a terrorist attack (when I'm long), and Osama capture when I'm short.

same here. once last week and once a month ago. i spoke to IB, and they were very helpful though couldn't think of any reason this has happened twice to me. the official suggestion was to backup the settings stored locally, every file beginning with a "D" located in c:\jts. if it happens...

totally. can't ask for more than that can we? well, actually...

sure, start by using pivots. when you have for example two high pivots confirmed within a given timeperiod and the highs are within a certain distance of each other, the double top condition is confirmed. vice versa for bottoms.

seriously. since i started trading, weekends drag on forever.

nice. very badass. from the bottle or the glass?

I thought about purchasing the JMA, but after comparing examples from the sample days they put on the website I decided that the T3 gets you 99.9% of the way there. You can find the T3 for free here: http://trader.online.pl/ELZ/t-0-tytulowa-t.html I was also intrigued by the discussion on...

sabena, that would be greatly appreciated. all i can say is that it was a "dance" party, so the dj was mixing a lot of things together, but they were all eastern european artists. i'm not sure how much was the dj and how much was the tracks, but it sounded like traditional folk, dub, new...

I especially dig atmospheric stuff like Stars of The Lid and Erik Satie for trading. profitseer, if you want to share your interesting sounding music, I'll check it out. Any good reccommendations from you internationals for Ukrainian/Bulgarian pop music that's sort of half traditional...