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  1. MAESTRO

    Do Trendlines work?

    Difficulties of the trend lines back testing is obviously related to their "fuzzy" definition. I haven't met two traders yet that would have exactly the same trend line definition or the same algorithm to produce them on the chart. It often happens that 10 traders would draw 10 different sets...
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    Do Trendlines work?

    I have two years, 100 securities back test results. Yes, you are correct. Trend lines in its bare form do not produce positive results. IMO trend lines could be used in conjunction with some other techniques (RSI, bollinger etc). However, having said that I do not have any results to back that...
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    Do Trendlines work?

    I find that the best way to use trend lines is to use them in conjunction with pivot points. It works well for me.
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    Reminiscences of a Moron

    That is not a bad idea! I need a writer like that too! Imagine a quarterly report for my fund written with such elegance! Folks are right! You are a writer. Not a trader!
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    trend following delusion shattered

    Markets are always trending until they are not ! :cool:
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    Why so hard on indicators?

    The best indicator is the ticker tape :)
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    Why so hard on indicators?

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    Why so hard on indicators?

    I should try that! Rabbit foot, eh? :D
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    Why so hard on indicators?

    Any indicator by definition is a simple function of the following type: Indicator = F( Time, Price, Volume); So, it does not contain any more information than the raw data. It filters the raw data. The most common mistake that people do is that they think that the indicators will tell them...
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    Exit methods for trend-traders

    Theoretically speaking any counter trend method could be used to produce exits in a trending system. I used to work with simple MACD and used RSI for exits. It reliably produces good results.
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    Pictures of your trading stations

    I used new canadian dollars to by my equipment.
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    Pictures of your trading stations

    Because I pasted my head on someone else's body using Photoshop 6. Look closely! :D
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    Pictures of your trading stations

    And the day is over. Its a good thing I was short RIMM :)
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    Pictures of your trading stations

    - Market moves are the result of the concurrent dominant psychological factors translated into market moving decisions by the aggregate of participants. - The participants are human beings. - Humans are indisputably a part of Nature. - As a product of humankind, markets are as...
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    Pictures of your trading stations

    Yes it does. I have always been fascinated with the way people express their emotions and what display systems they built to help them realize their control abilities. It is beyond ergonomics. It is BIONICS: a hybrid between humans and machines.
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    Pictures of your trading stations

    Sasketchewan Wheat Pool control room at a grain elevator complex in north Vancouver. Information is projected onto a wall screen and on computer monitors for Control Operator Rich Nichol to manage the loading of wheat onto cargo ships at port.
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    Pictures of your trading stations

    AT&T has a great setup!
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    Pictures of your trading stations

    Before I built my station I have done a fair amount of reasearch on this subject. An employee at the Korea Stock Exchange in Seoul looks at a screen after the benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) finished 5.73 per cent down at 790.68 points, the biggest daily percentage fall...
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    Pictures of your trading stations

    And you thought I have too many monitors ... :)
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    Pictures of your trading stations

    Datapath iH4-DIG
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