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Interesting stuff. Thank you guys!

Someone once looked for a mentor to help him learn how to pick up beautiful girls. The mentor placed a few of them in a bar he paid from the fees he received and the student thought he was making progress. When the mentoring finished, none of the girls would fall for the student. He called the...

milewski05 probably won't come back here. His visit was very quick and had specific purpose. A trader who can afford to spend USD 60,000 to buy software without testing it before is too large to fit in this place. :)

Tim, do not feed the trolls

You haven't justified why this is a problem. You just talk out of your as* as always. Most successful trading strategies for equity indices are long only because of the longer-term bias and the fact that corrections are very fast and hard to capture. Again, you’re talking out of your as*...

There is nothing wrong with that in principle. There is nothing wrong with choosing the best and saying I did that. Some people have greatly confused the minds of traders. Just like a few economists have confused the rest. Life depends on selection. There is nothing wrong with selection people...

Trading is a zero-sum game when measured relative to a performance benchmark. Few competitors means less profits. If all competitors are professional and informed, nobody profits. This is so basic...

Good work Tim. Are you using the demo or the full version of the software? Yes, we will take your word for it...Give me a break...:) Why only long? If you decide to use only long you introduce data snooping bias. I see that Tim's system included a short pattern which was a loser. The null...

You have to understand that no software will make you rich unless you put in substantial time and effort. Most of these programs facilitate trading system development but users must have experience and willing to work hard. I use Price Action Lab but only as a tool to analyze price series for...

How? No charting/backtesting software generates money and a return. Multicharts is one of the best for the job but that doesn't mean it makes a return on investment. It's your own personal work, time invested and ability to come up with an edge that makes the return. It's the same return whether...

This is an allocation scheme. Do you want to be an investor or a trader for them?

You should more care about those suckers that never learned anything from the dot com bust 12 years ago and about those that are trying to repeat it once more. Show us a stock that ever went parabolic and never plunged after that. AAPL won't be any different. I'm not short the stock but I...

Must work at least on 2 -3 different markets. Systems that work in only one market can be the outcome of Curve-fitting Data mining bias Survivorship bias Data snooping bias See above. You should worry. It is a sign of some problem. See above. I had similar questions when I...

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I have run accross many situations where WFO produces much worse results than IN-OOS optimization and testing. As a matter of fact, one startegy I tested some years ago worked better with parameters determined when the OOS was eliminated. This shows that what works is what works and...

For retailers this is true but for commercials it is not true.

The key here is probability . PA trading makes sense if you can get a prior estimate of probability. Then it turns into a very powerful method but not easy to execute because it involves quant analysis. One of the PA gurus is undoubtedly Michael Harris. You will find many examples in his...

If "realistic" means worse, would that make "reality" mean disaster? Because in reality there are unknown effects that make things even worse. Why do you think optimizing during a choppy market period and then trading during a trending market is any good? It is a bad idea. WFO is a bad idea...

Instead of you selecting what to show, maybe it would be better to have someone suggest a ticker. Out of 7,000 stocks, some will perform well with your method. Why don't you try your method on all DJ30 stocks and tell us the results. Let us see if you can beat a monkey...:)