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Thanks guys. How about I PM you a bank account number and once you transfer... say about a million or so, I'll forward you a copy, so you can "check my work" :cool: LOL.

Who said it wasn't? I started out the string with that.

Don't you usually have to guarantee that you (or anyone else, beside the buyer) will not be trading it? I mean if you wanna sell it for some real $$ to, say, some hedge fund? I wouldn't pay much for anything (even if it works) if others will know about it and could do it... I assumed I'd have...

Good point.

Nitro, yes, I do trade. And, thank God, it's been what I expected. The strategy I came up with (before investing a dime into trading) performs exactly as it was expected to. I did modify it a little bit once I started trading, but getting back to your creative comparison, it's more like...

Hey, what kind of advice is that? Who is he supposed to keep losing to? Let me guess.. you??? :D The advice I would give is to learn before you start. Then you don't necessarily have to be losing as much to learn. Given the abundance of information and the ability to check almost...

That reminds me of all the constant complaining of how much money those buy-and-holders lost. Come on, guys, unless they started 2 years ago, they are STILL UP! Not as much up as they were a while back, but hey, there were never supposed to be that much up. People ride the bubble and then...

Dude, you are an example of a trader I wish there were more of... :D Buying/selling and appearing to have no clue what they are doing, just "hoping"... I don't mean to be disrespectful, but you started it... There is NO guarantee that the stock will go up, you are right. But it is...

Of course not, are you kidding??? Regardless of whether you take a long term perspective or a short term one, it's easy to come up with a number of reasons for nonrandomness. Some of the moves are certainly noise, but many aren't. Predicting them is a different thing though. Now, if (a...

Thanks, I'll check it out. I hope an advanced charting package is not the only thing I can build with it. The way the system works, I don't need to see any charts at all... Just do a bunch of screens.

It <b>DOES</b> dude, do you have a BA in English Literature or what???? Stop wasting everyone's time.

I was talking about EXPECTATION! The OUTCOME/REALIZATION does not have to be anywhere near what is expected in any given case. When you bought those, you had to be expecting a positive return. Otherwise... you need serious help.:(

Dude, I can make cash elsewhere too. I'd rather get the present value of future profits now and work on other stuff, rather than lose the potential income from other venues b/c of time and energy spent on trading just one system.

1. No, I actually like trading very much. Capital base is not a problem, as I mentioned, we can get infusions in the future. Confidence is OK too. 2. There is some performance pressure, I agree. That's probably the aspect I dislike most. Especially since it's not like we are a long term...

... also, trading any system takes time and resources. The profits for someone might be maximized if the system is sold and energy is spent on developing others. The amount the system can make is not unlimited. Once the positions gets large enough, the trades will have too much price impact.

Age old answer (in the form of a question) - why would anyone with any invention sell the idea instead of making the product himself? A firm that already has the resources etc might able to leverage those and would be willing to pay more than the profits to you if you trade it youself...

Thanks, I'll check it out. I'm currently using tradestation, I think I might be able to have smth programmed to run on it. Although ideally it'd be platform independent. They also have some screening capabilities that I might be able to use, but they sort of suck. I've noticed on a few occasions...

Hi guys, just wanted to get some of your feedback on this one. Say there's a hypothetical PhD student who comes up with a nice short term strategy, tests it and it is pretty robust. He and another guy find an investor and form a temporary LLC to check it out in practice. They do it for a...

You are getting me deeper into the realm of fundamental analysis than I like to go :-)... I don't agree with the not reciprocal part. The reason the market is expected to rise is b/c it's components are. And it really has nothing to do with the success of the economy. If the company retains...

The second part is sufficient by itself man, I've been trying to tell you this over and over! :) If the ratio is one to one (and I don't see why it would not be, unless you trade in derivatives where payoffs are not symmetric), the whole "position sizing" idea is pointless. Read the other...