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i thought jack's ideas were one notch above useless, personally, but that describes a lot of the content here, and it's subjective. foremost, we should get rid of insult and wasted space like your posts in this thread. thank you for the outstanding example. i know it may conflict with the...

this is a great example of what none of us need here. i know nothing about this jack thread. experienced code talker or wannabe dips$%t, act like an adult, or go yahoo. maybe a strong policy statement, and a 3 strikes system would help here.

you guys think i'm kidding

hey, there is a whole underworld of alpine open-marriage traders, don't discount my demographic

thanks guys, i just cancelled my appointment with the NASE. VERY much appreciated. i'm going to look into some of the more mainstream providers in my area. thanks, literally, a life-saver

Wow, thanks for the warning lindq, I'm glad I posted. I'd like to track down that article if possible. They were recommended by friends in NYC who use them. I understand it is high deductible insurance, mostly for emergencies only. Do you recall where that article was?

I'm meeting with someone next week from the National Association for the Self-Employed. Anyone ever use their health insurance?

Thank you all for the very illuminating pointers. This is going to help in a major way. I appreciate the detailed responses. I expect I'll be back with some intelligent questions after I do some more homework. This is a great start.

Raymond, Thanks very much for writing. I have a few friends who are all extremely pleased with ninja, and I have considered it as an option for automating my strategies. They are REALLY into your product. My holdup is that with all the free products available to do this (however good or...

Maybe you could use the ADX like a gearshift.

The more I think about it, I think I am getting your point Funky. Almost every indicator is parsing price into some form of crossover, overbought/oversold, slope, and/or divergence information. I think what you're saying is that there is an art to interpreting this information, and every...

I wish :) I assume you mean the Bruce Lee wisdom. He would have been a great trader. Assuming he didn't bust up the screen on every stop out. I forgot to mention that my personal reliance on historical distributions of strategy variables (like indicator periods etc), is based on...

help me funky brother, i think i'm missing the idea here. is it like what bruce lee said to his student in enter the dragon, "don't THINK, feeeeeel"? Or is it more of a belief that all statistically significant relationships based on historical indicator settings are a curve fit? not to...

I think you could achieve this in backtesting by placing a simple condition in front of all of your strategy exits. For example if you were trading on 10 minute bars, and your target timeframe was 3 hour trades, each exit would only be triggered if bars since entry was > 18. Then if you...

J, Congratulations on your advancement to OPM. I wish I had something constructive to add to what you've already done, but I don't actually do any sophisticated drawdown analysis currently. I've been trading a mechanical system for 2 or 3 months, and every drawdown has been well below the...

After this morning's expensive little 20 minute CME outage on Tradestation 7.1, I can no longer spend $200+ a month for this product in good conscience. EL is awesome. Feeding historical data with one click is awesome, but realtime outages are expensive and cost me twice what I already spend...

After this morning's expensive little 20 minute CME outage on Tradestation 7.1, I can no longer spend $200+ a month for this product in good conscience. EL is awesome. Feeding historical data with one click is awesome, but realtime outages are expensive and cost me twice what I already spend...

Blatant bump to the top here, does anyone have a good summary of how the limits work that's a little more clear than the CME materials, or experience with limit down sessions on the indices?

I think I see what you're getting at now trend. Are you looking for ways to have your systems interact such that position size in each system is dynamically adjusted to achieve an overall portfolio risk level? That would be pretty cool. Basically the way the risk management function of...

heya trend bud excellent suggestion runningbear, i forgot about multiple timeframes. i actually did trade my system on two timeframes for a few weeks. predictably, the high frequency system looked outstanding on paper, but after charting my fills against the simulation, the gap gradually...